Practical UNIX,9780789722508

Practical UNIX

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780789722508
ISBN10: 078972250X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-02-02
Publisher(s): Que Publishing
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Summary

Practical UNIX address the concerns of the beginning to intermediate UNIX user. Practical UNIX teaches what its namesake promises--practical applications and information that you can easily find and use. You can count on this book to provide solid reference information and practical knowledge necessary to master the ever-complex UNIX. Topics covered in Practical UNIX include listing, finding, displaying, and printing files, generating and using file lists, system security, command-line editing, introduction to Emacs, accessing other UNIX systems on the network and Internet, writing Bourne Shell Scripts, and writing Perl Programs.

Author Biography

Steve "Mor" Moritsugu is a senior software engineer and support supervisor with DTR Business Systems. With over 20 years of computer operating systems under his belt, has been a featured speaker at computer conferences around the world and has written articles for various trade magazines. He also teaches UNIX Operating System, System Administration, and Shell Script Programming at Santa Ana College in southern California. DTR Business Systems sells, integrates, installs, configures, and supports thousands of UNIX systems across North America.

Table of Contents

I UNIX Fundamentals
Introduction to UNIX and the Shell
11(22)
Getting Started---A Guided Tour of UNIX
33(22)
UNIX Directories and Pathnames
55(24)
Rules for Entering UNIX Commands
79(52)
The UNIX Graphical User Interface (GUI)
131(24)
Miscellaneous UNIX Utilities
155(20)
II Working with UNIX Files
Listing and Finding Directories and Files
175(34)
Displaying and Printing Files and Pipelines
209(24)
Copying, Moving, Renaming, Removing, or Linking Files
233(22)
Comparing, Sorting, Modifying, Combining, and Splitting Files
255(36)
Generating and Using File Lists
291(26)
III System Administration
Installing UNIX at Home
317(40)
Users, Groups, and Logins
357(20)
File Permissions and System Security
377(22)
System Startup, Shutdown, and Managing Jobs
399(32)
System and File Backups
431(40)
Managing System Resources
471(22)
IV UNIX Text Processing
Searching for Lines in a File or Pipeline
493(30)
Replacing or Removing Text From a File or Pipeline
523(40)
Using vi to Edit a Text File
563(24)
Letting the vi Editor Work for You
587(26)
Command-Line Editing in the Korn Shell
613(12)
Introducing the Emacs Editor
625(28)
V Networking
Accessing Other UNIX Systems by Modem
653(22)
Accessing Other UNIX Systems on the Network or Internet
675(32)
Accessing UNIX from Windows
707(22)
UNIX and the Internet
729(24)
VI Script Programming
Writing Bourne Shell Scripts
753(48)
Writing Perl Programs
801(96)
Appendixes
A UNIX Command Reference
841(56)
B Glossary
897

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