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| Introduction | |
| Just The Basic Facts | |
| I Thought UNIX Lived in Harems | |
| What Is UNIX? A Brief UNIX History | |
| What Is UNIX Good For? | |
| How Did UNIX Get Such a Bad Reputation? | |
| Can I Run UNIX? | |
| So, What's the UNIX Bottom Line? | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| UNIX Flavors | |
| Can't We All Just Get Along? | |
| The UNIX Family Tree | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Nuts And Bolts | |
| Boot, Lock, and Load | |
| Approaching the Beast | |
| Giving UNIX the Boot | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Getting In | |
| Logging In | |
| The whoami Command: Finding Yourself | |
| Who's Hosting This Party, Anyway? | |
| Say, What's in the Box? | |
| The finger Command: Giving Yourself the Finger | |
| Giving Others the Finger | |
| The w Command: Finding Out What Users Are Doing | |
| The who Command: Discovering Who's Using Your Machine | |
| The last Command: Finding Out When Users Were Last Logged In | |
| Logging Out | |
| About Your Password | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Surviving Shell Shock | |
| What's a Shell, Anyway? Shells | |
| Shell We Dance? Shell Lingo | |
| The Shell's Cast of Characters: Metacharacters | |
| Filename Metacharacters | |
| Surfing the Pipeline | |
| Sequential Execution of Commands | |
| Conditional Execution of Commands | |
| Cutting UNIX off at the Pass: Redirection | |
| Shell Scripts and Programming | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Manipulating Files and Directories | |
| What's a Directory? Directory Structure in UNIX | |
| Where Am I? I'm Gonna Go Places | |
| Finding Out What's in Your Directory | |
| Investigating Tom, Dick, and Harry | |
| Master of the Universe | |
| The Deadly Asterisk | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Regular and Not-So-Regular Expressions | |
| Get a grep on Yourself, for Goodness Sake! More Complex Regular Expression Searches | |
| The Big Guns: awk | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Opening, Editing, and Saving Files | |
| Text Support | |
| Sending a Single Line of Text to Disk: The echo Command | |
| Big ed | |
| The vi Editor | |
| The pico Editor | |
| Egad! It's emacs! textedit | |
| Visual SlickEdit | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Printing | |
| Printing from X | |
| Troubleshooting Your Print Jobs | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Working with Applications | |
| Before You Start: Is It Really Your Cup of Tea? The Least You Need to Know | |
| Working In The Unix Gui | |
| Tyrannosaurus X: A Windowing System | |
| About Window Systems in General | |
| Windows That Can Talk: The X Protocol | |
| The Windowing System That Launched a Thousand Chips | |
| The Windowing System with a Thousand Faces | |
| Where X Is Going | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Point and Clique | |
| Your Keyboard | |
| Different Mouse Types | |
| The Mouse and X | |
| Mouse Buttons | |
| Doing Windows: How Windows Work in X | |
| The Least You Need To Know | |
| Running X and X Applications | |
| Starting X.xinit: The X Starter | |
| Xterm: Your Window to the World | |
| Running Applications Inside an Xterm Window | |
| About Menus and Customization | |
| Changing Your Monitor Choices, Video Card, or Resolution | |
| Troubleshooting Applications in X | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Cool Programs for X | |
| XV: A Graphics Tool | |
| The xv Interface | |
| Xgopher | |
| Xarchie | |
| X3270 | |
| StarOffice | |
| About X Applications in General | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Help! | |
| Help on UNIX | |
| Hey Man! What's Happening? (The Man Page System) | |
| When You're Stuck in the GUI: Graphical Help Tools | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Unix's Net Worth | |
| UNIX and the Internet | |
| Out of the Ashes of a War That Never Happened | |
| The Ultimate Network Operating System | |
| Why Use UNIX? Connecting to the Internet | |
| Direct Connections | |
| PPP Connections | |
| Direct Dial Connections | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Return to Sender, Address Unknown: Email Addresses. Email Tools. mail. elm. pine | |
| About Email in General | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| The WWW: Browsers for UNIX | |
| A Few Words about Standards | |
| About Availability | |
| The Browsers | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| USENET News | |
| What Is USENET? tin: A Newsreader | |
| Using pine to Read News | |
| Using Netscape Communicator to Read News | |
| Welcome to the Jungle: A USENET Primer | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Chatting | |
| What Is Chatting, Anyway? Chat System Types | |
| Chatting One on One with talk | |
| Internet Relay Chat: The Internet's Wild West | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Other Network Services | |
| Say It with Files: File Transfer Protocol | |
| FTP'ing in the Large | |
| Telnet: A Remote Login Program | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| System Administration | |
| So You Want to Run a UNIX Server | |
| Getting to the Root of the Problem | |
| Adding and Removing Users | |
| A Few Words about Security | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Troubleshooting | |
| Common Mistakes | |
| Backups | |
| Corrupting the passwd File | |
| Cruising As Root | |
| Dangerous Commands | |
| Terminal Problems | |
| Xcruciating Peccadilloes | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| The 20 Most Common Error Messages and Their Causes | |
| Command Not Found | |
| No Such File or Directory | |
| Argument List Too Long | |
| Cannot Access (Cannot Open, No Such File or Directory) | |
| Cross-device Link (Different File System) | |
| Login Incorrect | |
| No Manual Entry (No Manual Entry for Command) | |
| Host Name Lookup Failure | |
| No Route to Host | |
| Device or Resource Busy | |
| Is a Directory | |
| Nothing Appropriate | |
| Kernel Panic (Unable to Mount Root File System) | |
| Permission Denied | |
| Terminal Type Unknown | |
| Not a Directory | |
| Insufficient Arguments | |
| Not Enough Space | |
| Illegal Option | |
| Read-only File System | |
| The Least You Need to Know | |
| Reference | |
| Command Reference | |
| Online Resources | |
| Documentation on Various UNIX Distributions | |
| Patch Sources for Selected UNIX Flavors | |
| Usenet Newsgroups | |
| Online Periodicals | |
| Security Literature | |
| Speak Like a Geek: The UNIX Bible | |
| Index | |
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