Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours

Introduction. Does Each Chapter Take an Hour? What If I Take Longer Than 24 Hours? Are There Really 24 Hours Worth of Lessons? How to Use This Book HOUR 1: What Is This Unix Stuff? Goals for This Hour What Is Unix? A Brief History of Unix What's All This About Multiuser Systems? Cracking Open the Shell Getting Help HOUR 2: Getting onto the System and Using the Command Line. Goals for This Hour Beginning Your Session Seeing What's Going On Around You HOUR 3: Moving About the File System. Goals for This Hour What a Hierarchical File System Is All About Directory Separator Characters The Difference Between Relative and Absolute Filenames HOUR 4: Listing Files and Managing Disk Usage. Goals for This Hour The ls Command Special ls Command Flags Permissions Strings HOUR 5: Ownership and Permissions. Goals for This Hour Working with File Permissions HOUR 6: Creating, Moving, Renaming, and Deleting Files and Directories. Goals for This Hour Manipulating the Unix File System HOUR 7: Looking into Files. Goals for This Hour Looking Inside Files HOUR 8: Filters, Pipes, and Wildcards! Goals for This Hour Maximizing the Command Line HOUR 9: Slicing and Dicing Command-Pipe Data. Goals for This Hour The awk Programming System How to Use cut in Pipes Inline Editing with sed and tr HOUR 10: An Introduction to the vi Editor. Goals for This Hour Editing the Unix Way HOUR 11: Advanced vi Tricks, Tools, and Techniques. Goals for This Hour Advanced Editing with vi Summary of vi Commands HOUR 12: An Overview of the emacs Editor. Goals for This Hour The Other Popular Editor: emacs HOUR 13: Introduction to Command Shells. Goals for This Hour The (Command) Shell Game HOUR 14: Advanced Shell Interaction. Goals for This Hour Which Shell Is Which? HOUR 15: Job Control. Goals for This Hour Wrestling with Your Jobs HOUR 16: Shell Programming Overview. Goals for This Hour Build Your Own Commands HOUR 17: Advanced Shell Programming. Goals for This Hour Searching a Database of Filenames with mylocate HOUR 18: Printing in the Unix Environment. Goals for This Hour Making a Printed Copy HOUR 19: Archives and Backups. Goals for This Hour The tar Tape Archive Utility Shrinking Your Files with compress Exploring the Unix Tape Command: cpio Personal Backup Solutions Working with Unix Package Managers HOUR 20: Communicating with Email. Goals for This Hour Interacting with the World HOUR 21: Using telnet, SSH, and ftp. Goals for This Hour Stepping Beyond Your Own System HOUR 22: Searching for Information and Files. Goals for This Hour Finding What's Where HOUR 23: Perl Programming in Unix. Goals for This Hour Flexible and Powerful: Perl HOUR 24: GNOME and the GUI Environment. Goals for This Hour Tweaking Your Inner GNOME Working with GNOME Applications APPENDIX A: Common Unix Questions and Answers. How do I use find|xargs with filenames that contain spaces? How do I find large files on my system? How do I run a program on a schedule? How do fix file permission problems? How do I list files that don't match a given pattern? How do I view lines X-Y in a text file? How do I add a new directory to my PATH? How do I recover deleted files? How can I set my shell to protect me from accidental deletions? What do the shell errors "arg list too long" and "broken pipe" mean? Why use ssh instead of telnet? Or sftp instead of ftp? APPENDIX B: Working with the Apache Web Server. Goals for This Hour Working with a Unix Web Server Index.