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9780789723765

Think Unix

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  • ISBN13:

    9780789723765

  • ISBN10:

    078972376X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-07
  • Publisher: Que Pub

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Summary

Unix has a reputation for being cryptic and difficult to learn, but it doesn't need to be that way. Think Unix takes an analogous approach to that of a grammar book. Rather than teaching individual words or phrases like most books, Think Unix teaches the set of logical structures to be learned. Myriad examples help you learn individual commands, and practice problems at the end of difficult sections help you learn the practical side of Unix. Strong attention is paid to learning how to read "man pages," the standard documentation on all Unix systems, including Linux. While most books simply tell you that man pages exist and spend some time teaching how to use the man command, none spend any significant amount of space teaching how to use the content of the man pages. Even if you are lost at the Unix command prompt, you can learn subsystems that are specific to the Unix flavor.

Author Biography

Jon Lasser is a Unix systems administrator with six years of Linux and Unix experience and is responsible for several hundred Unix-based systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He speaks at numerous conferences on the Bastille Linux Project, for which he is development coordinator. He can be reached at jon@umbc.edu.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(1)
About This Book
1(6)
I Unix Concepts 7(124)
Unix Documentation
9(20)
Words of Warning
10(1)
Reading Man Pages
10(10)
Documentation Hide-and-Go-Seek
20(7)
Suggested Exercises
27(2)
Files and Processes
29(34)
Files
30(23)
Processes
53(10)
Redirection and Pipes
63(16)
Redirection
64(5)
Pipes
69(10)
Networking
79(28)
A Broad Overview of Networking
80(10)
Talking with Other Machines
90(12)
Using Machines Remotely
102(5)
vi, Dotfiles, and Regular Expressions
107(24)
Surviving vi
109(5)
Thriving in vi
114(8)
Regular Expressions
122(9)
II Shell Concepts 131(66)
Muddling Through Shells
133(14)
Shell Wars
134(2)
Fixing Mistakes
136(4)
Job Control
140(7)
Variables and Quoting
147(20)
Variables
148(10)
Practice Problems
158(1)
Quoting
158(7)
Practice Problems
165(2)
Conditional Execution and Loops
167(18)
Sequential Execution
168(1)
Conditional Execution
169(9)
Practice Problems
178(1)
Loops
179(4)
Practice Problems
183(2)
Shell Scripts and More
185(12)
Grouping Commands
186(1)
Aliases and Functions
187(3)
Practice Problems
190(1)
Shell Scripts
190(6)
Practice Problems
196(1)
III X Window System Concepts 197(46)
Thinking Like X
199(22)
What X Does Differently
200(3)
Nuts and Bolts
203(11)
Desktop Environments
214(4)
Something Useful: xterm
218(2)
Suggested Exercises
220(1)
Configuring X
221(22)
Starting X
222(3)
Command-Line Options
225(3)
Suggested Exercises
228(1)
X Resources
228(7)
Suggested Exercises
235(1)
Color Names and Numbers
235(2)
Fonts
237(1)
Listing Fonts
238(2)
A Few Final Words
240(3)
IV Appendixes 243(24)
A Answers to Practice Problems
245(10)
B Glossary and References
255(12)
Index 267

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