Unix Secrets

Updated throughout and featuring greatly expanded Internet coverage, this new edition of UNIX Secrets gives you all the tips and techniques you need to take your UNIX expertise to the next level. UNIX guru James C. Armstrong, Jr., delivers short, accessible chapters on UNIX accounts, shells, file system navigation, networking and communications, software development, system administration, and more. Book jacket.

James C. Armstrong, Jr., is a top software engineer and UNIX expert. He is the author of numerous UNIX articles and product reviews as well as three books

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

Part I: Accounts

1

(22)

Understanding UNIX Accounts

3

(6)

Manipulating Your Account

9

(14)

Part II: Command Shells

23

(48)

Introducing Command Shells

25

(6)

Understanding Shells: An Overview

31

(18)

Shell Programming

49

(22)

Part III: File System Navigation

71

(70)

Introducing the File System

73

(6)

Finding and Identifying Files

79

(40)

Understanding File Permissions and Disk Limits

119

(16)

Combining Disk and Shell Commands

135

(6)

Part IV: Editing

141

(76)

Editing with ed

143

(14)

Using Screen Editors

157

(16)

Using Text Manipulation Commands

173

(36)

Editing in Perspective

209

(8)

Part V: Processes

217

(52)

Introducing Processes and Scheduling

219

(10)

Examining Processes

229

(10)

Managing Processes

239

(24)

Putting a Process in Perspective

263

(6)

Part VI: Networking and Communications

269

(98)

Understanding Communications

271

(18)

Understanding and Using Networks

289

(40)

Using Electronic Mail and Netnews

329

(38)

Part VII: UNIX and the Internet

367

(174)

Introduction to the Internet

369

(16)

Internet Tools

385

(10)

Getting the Most from Your Web Browser

395

(24)

Configuring and Using a Web Server

419

(32)

Introduction to HTML

451

(24)

Writing Clean CGIs

475

(54)

Getting the Most from the Internet

529

(12)

Part VIII: The X Window System

541

(186)

Understanding X Windows

543

(6)

Getting Started with X

549

(40)

Using Window Managers

589

(24)

Common X Applications

613

(40)

Advanced X Programs

653

(56)

Integrating X into the UNIX Environment

709

(18)

Part IX: Software Development

727

(168)

UNIX is the Developer's Platform of Choice

729

(4)

The Development Process

733

(10)

Programming Languages on UNIX: C and C++

743

(28)

More Programming Languages: Java and Perl

771

(22)

Development Tools

793

(32)

You Expect Me to Understand That?

825

(22)

You've Made It, Now Make It Fast

847

(18)

Designing Languages

865

(18)

Combining Tools

883

(12)

Part X: GNU Tools

895

(64)

I'm Not Paying for That!

897

(6)

Using GNU Software Development Tools

903

(30)

More GNU Tools

933

(26)

Part XI: System Administration

959

(124)

A Day in the Life of a System Administrator

961

(6)

When Users Come Calling

967

(44)

Storage Tools

1011

(14)

Data-Compression Tools

1025

(16)

Network Services (or ``Cable, Schmable, I've Got the Internet!'')

1041

(14)

Crash!

1055

(10)

Tying the Tools Together for Efficiency

1065

(18)

Part XII: UNIX Flavors and Directions

1083

(24)

Flavors of UNIX

1085

(8)

Riding the Linux Wave

1093

(8)

The Future of UNIX

1101

(6)

Index

1107

(46)

GNU General Public License

1153

(11)

CD-ROM Installation Instructions

1164

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