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Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide
By Deborah S. Ray, Eric J. Ray
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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Pub Date: August 02, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-44245-8
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-44245-1
Pages: 448

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Acknowledgments
		Introduction
			How Do You Use This Book?
		Chapter 1.  Getting Started with Unix
			Getting Unix or Access to a Unix System
			Connecting to The Unix System
			Logging In
			Changing Your Password with passwd
			Listing Directories and Files with ls
			Changing Directories with cd
			Finding Yourself with pwd
			Piping Input and Output
			Redirecting Output
			Using Wildcards
			Viewing File Contents with more
			Displaying File Contents with cat
			Exploring the System
			Getting Help with man
			Logging Out
		Chapter 2.  Using Directories and Files
			Creating Directories with mkdir
			Creating Files with touch
			Copying Directories and Files with cp
			Listing Directories and Files with ls (More Goodies)
			Moving Files with mv
			Removing Files with rm
			Removing Directories with rmdir
			Finding Forgotten Files with find
			Locating Lost Files with locate
			Linking with ln (Hard Links)
			Linking with ln -s(Soft Links)
		Chapter 3.  Working with Your Shell
			Discovering What Shell You're Using
			Understanding Shells and Options
			Changing Your Shell with chsh
			Changing Your Shell Temporarily
			Using Completion in the bash Shell
			Viewing Session History in the bash Shell
			Using Completion in the zsh Shell
			Viewing Session History in the zsh Shell
			Using Completion in the ksh Shell
			Viewing Session History in the ksh Shell
			Viewing Session History in the csh Shell
			Changing Your Identity with su
			Fixing Terminal Settings with stty
			Exiting the Shell
		Chapter 4.  Creating and Editing Files
			Choosing an Editor
			Starting pico and Dabbling with It
			Saving in pico
			Cutting and Pasting Text Blocks in pico
			Checking Spelling in pico
			Getting Help in pico
			Exiting pico
			Starting vi and Dabbling with It
			Saving in vi
			Adding and Deleting Text in vi
			Importing Files into vi
			Searching and Replacing in vi
			Exiting vi
			Starting emacs and Dabbling with It
			Using emacs Menus to Spell-Check
			Saving in emacs
			Exiting emacs
		Chapter 5.  Controlling Ownership & Permissions
			Understanding File Ownership and Permissions
			Finding Out Who Owns What
			Finding Out Which Group You're In
			Changing the Group Association of Files and Directories with chgrp
			Changing Ownership of Files and Directories with chown
			Changing Permissions with chmod
			Translating Mnemonic Permissions to Numeric Permissions
			Changing Permission Defaults with umask
		Chapter 6.  Manipulating Files
			Counting Files and Their Contents with wc
			Viewing File Beginnings with head
			Viewing File Endings with tail
			Finding Text with grep
			Using Regular Expressions with grep
			Using Other Examples of Regular Expressions
			Making Global Changes with sed
			Changing Files with awk
			Comparing Files with cmp
			Finding Differences in Files with diff
			Finding Differences in Files with sdiff
			Sorting Files with sort
			Eliminating Duplicates with uniq
			Redirecting to Multiple Locations with tee
			Changing with tr
			Formatting with fmt
			Preparing to Print with pr
			Splitting Files with split
		Chapter 7.  Getting Information about the System
			Getting System Information with uname
			Viewing File Systems with df
			Determining Disk Usage with du
			Finding Out File Types with file
			Finding Out About Users with finger
			Learning Who Else is Logged in With who
			Learning Who Else is Logged in with w
			Getting Information about Your Userid with id
		Chapter 8.  Configuring Your Unix Environment
			Understanding Your Unix Environment
			Discovering Your Current Environment
			Adding or Changing Variables
			Looking at Your zsh Configuration Files
			Adding to Your zsh Path
			Changing Your zsh Prompt
			Looking at Your bash Configuration Files
			Adding to Your bash Path
			Changing Your bash Prompt
			Looking at Your ksh Configuration Files
			Changing Your ksh Path
			Changing Your ksh Prompt
			Looking at Your csh Configuration Files
			Changing Your csh Path
			Changing Your csh Prompt
			Setting Aliases with alias
		Chapter 9.  Running Scripts and Programs
			Running a Command
			Scheduling One-Time Jobs with at
			Scheduling Regularly Occurring Jobs with cron
			Suspending Jobs
			Checking Job Status with jobs
			Running Jobs in the Background with bg
			Running Jobs in the Foreground with fg
			Controlling Job Priority with nice
			Timing Jobs with time
			Finding Out What Processes are Running with ps
			Deleting Processes with kill
		Chapter 10.  Writing Basic Scripts
			Creating a Shell Script
			Running a Shell Script
			Making a Script Executable
			Getting a Head Start on Scripts with history
			Embedding Commands
			Looping Your Scripts
			Creating If-Then Statements
			Accepting Command-Line Arguments in Your Scripts
			Accepting Input While a Script Is Running
			Debugging Scripts
		Chapter 11.  Sending and Reading Email
			Choosing an Email Program and Getting Started
			Reading Email with pine
			Sending Email with pine
			Customizing pine
			Reading Email with mutt
			Sending Email with mutt
			Reading Email with mail
			Sending Email with mail
			Creating a Signature File
			Automatically Forwarding Incoming Messages
			Announcing an Absence with vacation
			Configuring procmail
			Responding to Email with procmail
		Chapter 12.  Accessing the Internet
			Getting Familiar with Unix Internet Lingo
			Logging in to Remote Systems with ssh
			Logging in to Remote Systems with telnet
			Communicating with Other Users Using write
			Communicating with Other Users Using talk
			Getting Files from the Internet with ftp
			Sharing Files on the Internet with ftp
			Surfing the Web with links
			Surfing the Web with lynx
			Downloading Web Sites with wget
			Checking Connections with ping
			Tracing Connections with traceroute
			Matching Domain Names with IP Numbers
			Choosing a News Reader
			Reading News with pine
			Reading News with tin
		Chapter 13.  Working with Encoded &Compressed Files
			Encoding Files with uuencode
			Section 13.2.  Decoding Files with uudecode
			Archiving with tar
			Unarchiving Files with tar
			Compressing Files with compress
			Uncompressing Files with uncompress
			Zipping a File or Directory with gzip
			Unzipping a gzip File with gunzip
			Zipping Files and Directories with zip
			Unzipping Zipped Files with unzip
			Combining Commands
		Chapter 14.  Installing Your Own Software
			Understanding Unix Software Installation
			Finding Unix Software
			Downloading, Placing, and Uncompressing Software
			Configuring Software
			Compiling and Installing with make install
		Chapter 15.  Using Handy Utilities
			Calendaring with cal
			Calculating with bc
			Evaluating Expressions with expr
			Converting with units
			Checking Spelling with ispell
			Looking it Up with look
			Printing with lp
			Keeping a Record of Your Session with script
		Chapter 16.  Being Root
			Acting Like root with sudo
			Becoming root with su
			Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Daemons
			Changing the System Configuration
			Monitoring the System
			Keeping Up with watch
			Checking Boot Messages with dmesg
			Setting the Date and Time
		Chapter 17.  Sensational Unix Tricks
			Cleaning Up HTML Documents with tidy
			Searching and Replacing Throughout Multiple Documents with Sed
			Generating Reports with awk
			Using Input to Customize Your Environment
			Using ROT13 Encoding with sed
			Embedding ROT13 Encoding in A Shell Script
			Making Backups with rsync
			Using Advanced Redirection with stderr
		Appendix A.  Unix Reference
		Appendix B.  What's What and What's Where
		Appendix C.  Commands and Flags
		Index