Your UNIX The Ultimate Guide

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ISBN: 9780072405002

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Edition: 2001

Authors: Sumitabha Das

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 12/18/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 960
Size: 7.30" wide x 9.00" long x 1.41" tall
Weight: 2.310

Preface	p. vi
List of Tables	p. xxiii
Getting Started	p. 1
The Operating System	p. 2
The UNIX Operating System	p. 3
Knowing Your Machine	p. 3
Knowing Your Keyboard	p. 4
The System Administrator	p. 6
Logging In and Out	p. 7
Trying Out Some Commands	p. 9
Two Important Observations	p. 13
When Things Go Wrong	p. 14
Yet Another Session: Working with Files and Directories	p. 16
How It All Clicked	p. 19
Linux and GNU	p. 22
Inside UNIX	p. 22
Summary	p. 26
Self-Test	p. 27
Exercises	p. 28
Key Terms	p. 29
Understanding the UNIX Command	p. 31
General Features of a Command	p. 31
The PATH: Locating Commands	p. 32
Internal and External Commands	p. 33
Command Structure	p. 34
Flexibility of Command Usage	p. 38
man: On-Line Help	p. 40
The man Documentation	p. 42
info: The Texinfo Documentation	p. 46
whatis and apropos: Which Command Will Do the Job?	p. 48
Summary	p. 50
Self-Test	p. 51
Exercises	p. 51
Key Terms	p. 52
General-Purpose Utilities	p. 53
passwd: Change Your Password	p. 53
who and w: Know the Users	p. 55
tty: Know Your Terminal	p. 56
lock: Lock Your Terminal	p. 57
stty: Set Terminal Characteristics	p. 57
script: Record Your Session	p. 59
clear and tput: Clear Your Screen	p. 60
uname: Know Your Machine's Name	p. 60
date: Display the System Date	p. 61
cal: The Calendar	p. 61
calendar: A Useful Reminder Mechanism	p. 62
bc: The Calculator	p. 63
Summary	p. 65
Self-Test	p. 66
Exercises	p. 66
Key Terms	p. 66
The vi/vim Editor	p. 67
vi Preliminaries	p. 68
Quitting vi--The Last Line Mode	p. 70
Inserting and Replacing Text	p. 72
Saving Text (:w)	p. 77
Exit to the UNIX Shell	p. 79
The Repeat Factor	p. 80
The Command Mode	p. 80
Navigation	p. 80
Operators	p. 84
Deleting, Moving and Yanking Text	p. 86
Changing Text (c and *)	p. 89
The Dot: Repeating the Last Command	p. 91
Undoing Last Editing Instructions (u and U)	p. 92
String Search	p. 92
Searching with Regular Expressions	p. 95
Search and Replace (:s)	p. 97
Handling Multiple Files	p. 98
Marking Text	p. 102
Filtering Text--The ! Operator	p. 103
Named Buffers: Copying and Moving Multiple Text Sections	p. 104
Recovering Multiple Deletions	p. 105
Abbreviating Text (:ab)	p. 105
Customizing the Keyboard (:map)	p. 106
Customizing the Environment (:set)	p. 107
Summary	p. 108
Going Further	p. 109
Self-Test	p. 110
Exercises	p. 110
Going Further	p. 111
Key Terms	p. 111
The GNU emacs Editor	p. 113
emacs Preliminaries	p. 114
Quitting emacs	p. 118
Inserting and Replacing Text	p. 118
Saving Text	p. 120
The Digit Argument	p. 122
Navigation	p. 123
Working with Regions	p. 127
Deleting, Moving and Copying Text	p. 128
Changing Case of Text	p. 132
Command Completion	p. 133
Undoing and Redoing Editing	p. 135
String Search	p. 136
Searching with Regular Expressions	p. 138
Search and Replace	p. 141
Using Multiple Files, Windows and Buffers	p. 142
Escape to Shell	p. 147
Using the Help Facility ([Ctrl-h])	p. 148
Marking Text	p. 150
Filtering Text	p. 151
Storing Multiple Text Sections	p. 152
Recovering Multiple Deletions ([Alt-y])	p. 152
Abbreviating Text (abbrev-mode)	p. 153
Customizing the Keyboard	p. 153
Using Macros	p. 154
Customizing the Editor Environment	p. 155
Summary	p. 157
Going Further	p. 158
Self-Test	p. 159
Exercises	p. 159
Going Further	p. 160
Key Terms	p. 161
The File System	p. 163
The File	p. 163
What's in a (File)name?	p. 165
The Parent-Child Relationship	p. 166
The UNIX File System	p. 167
pwd: Knowing Your Current Directory	p. 168
Absolute Pathnames	p. 169
cd: Changing Directories	p. 170
Relative Pathnames (. and ..)	p. 172
mkdir: Making Directories	p. 175
rmdir: Removing Directories	p. 176
cp: Copying Files	p. 177
rm: Deleting Files	p. 179
mv: Renaming Files	p. 180
cat: Displaying and Creating Files	p. 181
file: Know the File Types	p. 182
lp and cancel: Printing a File	p. 183
df: Finding Out the Free Disk Space	p. 185
du: Finding Out Your Own Consumption	p. 186
compress, gzip and zip: Compress Your Files	p. 187
Conclusion	p. 189
Summary	p. 189
Self-Test	p. 190
Exercises	p. 191
Key Terms	p. 192
File Attributes	p. 193
ls: Listing Files	p. 193
ls -l: Listing File Attributes	p. 197
Listing Directory Attributes (ls -d)	p. 199
File Permissions	p. 199
chmod: Changing File Permissions	p. 201
Directory Permissions	p. 206
umask: Default File Permissions	p. 207
File Ownership	p. 208
chown and chgrp: Changing File Ownership	p. 210
File Modification and Access Times	p. 211
touch: Changing the Time Stamps	p. 213
File Systems and Inodes	p. 214
ln: Links	p. 214
Symbolic Links	p. 216
find: Locating Files	p. 218
Summary	p. 223
Self-Test	p. 224
Exercises	p. 225
Key Terms	p. 226
The Shell	p. 227
The Shell as Command Processor	p. 228
Pattern Matching--The Wild Cards	p. 228
Escaping--The Backslash (\)	p. 234
Quoting	p. 236
Escaping and Quoting in echo	p. 237
Redirection	p. 238
/dev/null and /dev/tty: Two Special Files	p. 243
Pipes	p. 245
tee: Splitting a Stream	p. 248
Command Substitution	p. 249
Shell Variables	p. 250
Shell Scripts	p. 252
The Shell's Treatment of the Command Line	p. 253
The Other Shells	p. 254
More Wild Cards in the Korn Shell and bash	p. 254
Summary	p. 255
Going Further	p. 256
Self-Test	p. 256
Exercises	p. 257
Going Further	p. 258
Key Terms	p. 258
Simple Filters	p. 259
more: Paging Output	p. 260
wc: Line, Word and Character Counting	p. 263
od: Displaying Data in Octal	p. 264
pr: Paginating Files	p. 266
cmp: Comparing Two Files	p. 267
diff: Converting One File to Another	p. 269
comm: What Is Common?	p. 270
head: Displaying the Beginning of a File	p. 271
tail: Displaying the End of a File	p. 272
cut: Slitting a File Vertically	p. 273
paste: Pasting Files	p. 274
sort: Ordering a File	p. 275
tr: Translating Characters	p. 278
uniq: Locate Repeated and Nonrepeated Lines	p. 281
nl: Line Numbering	p. 283
dos2unix and unix2dos: DOS and UNIX Files	p. 283
spell: Check Your Spellings	p. 284
Applying the Filters	p. 286
Summary	p. 289
Summing Up Linux	p. 290
Self-Test	p. 291
Exercises	p. 291
Key Terms	p. 292
The Process	p. 293
Understanding the Process	p. 293
How a Process Is Created	p. 295
The Login Shell: The First User Process	p. 296
The init Process	p. 297
Internal and External Commands	p. 297
ps: Process Status	p. 298
Running Jobs in Background	p. 303
nice: Job Execution with Low Priority	p. 305
Signals	p. 306
kill: Premature Termination of a Process	p. 307
Job Control	p. 309
at and batch: Execute Later	p. 310
cron: Running Jobs Periodically	p. 312
time: Timing Processes	p. 314
Summary	p. 315
Summing Up Linux	p. 316
Self-Test	p. 316
Exercises	p. 317
Key Terms	p. 318
TCP/IP Networking Tools	p. 319
TCP/IP Basics	p. 319
talk: Real-Time Conversation	p. 323
mesg: Your Willingness to Talk	p. 324
finger: Details of Users	p. 325
telnet: Remote Login	p. 326
rlogin: Remote Login without Password	p. 329
ftp: File Transfer Protocol	p. 329
rcp: Remote File Copying	p. 336
rsh: Remote Command Execution	p. 336
Enforcing Security for the Berkeley r-Utilities	p. 337
Prelude to the Internet	p. 338
Summary	p. 338
Self-Test	p. 339
Exercises	p. 340
Key Terms	p. 341
The X Window System	p. 343
Why Use X?	p. 344
The Graphical User Interface in X	p. 345
Starting and Stopping X	p. 345
The X Architecture	p. 346
Running X Programs Remotely	p. 346
X Techniques and Components	p. 349
The Window Manager--A Special Client	p. 351
CDE: The Common Desktop Environment	p. 352
xterm: The Main Client	p. 353
Command Line Options	p. 354
Copy and Paste	p. 356
Standard X Clients	p. 358
.xinitrc: The Startup File	p. 359
X Resources	p. 360
Summary	p. 361
Self-Test	p. 362
Exercises	p. 363
Key Terms	p. 364
Electronic Mail	p. 365
Email Basics	p. 365
mail: The Good Old Mailer	p. 368
elm: A Screen-Oriented Mail Handler	p. 369
pine: Yet Another Mail Program	p. 372
.signature and .forward: Two Important Files	p. 377
How Mail Works	p. 378
Netscape Messenger: The Most Powerful Mailer	p. 379
vacation: Going on Leave	p. 387
MIME: Handling Binary Files	p. 387
Summary	p. 390
Going Further	p. 390
Self-Test	p. 390
Exercises	p. 391
Going Further	p. 392
Key Terms	p. 392
The Internet	p. 393
The Internet Top-Level Domains	p. 394
The Services on the Internet	p. 395
Mailing Lists	p. 396
Newsgroups	p. 398
Using tin to Read Newsgroups	p. 401
Using Netscape Messenger for Net News	p. 404
irc: Internet Relay Chat	p. 407
The World Wide Web	p. 411
Using the Web Browser: Netscape Navigator	p. 412
Hypertext, HTTP and the URL	p. 416
HTML: The Language of the Web	p. 419
Saving Web Pages and Graphics	p. 423
Enhancing Browser Performance	p. 425
The Bubble that Didn't Burst	p. 426
MIME Technology on the Web	p. 426
Summary	p. 428
Going Further	p. 429
Self-Test	p. 429
Exercises	p. 430
Going Further	p. 431
Key Terms	p. 431
Filters Using Regular Expressions--grep and sed	p. 433
The Sample Database	p. 434
grep: Searching for a Pattern	p. 434
grep Options	p. 436
Regular Expressions--Round One	p. 440
egrep and fgrep: The Other Members	p. 446
Regular Expressions--Round Two	p. 447
sed: The Stream Editor	p. 448
Line Addressing	p. 450
Context Addressing	p. 452
Editing Text	p. 453
Substitution	p. 455
Regular Expressions--Round Three	p. 458
Summary	p. 461
Self-Test	p. 463
Exercises	p. 463
Key Terms	p. 465
Programming with awk	p. 467
awk Preliminaries	p. 468
Splitting a Line into Fields	p. 469
printf: Formatting Output	p. 470
The Comparison Operators	p. 471
Number Processing	p. 473
Variables	p. 473
Reading the Program from a File (-f)	p. 474
The BEGIN and END Sections	p. 474
Positional Parameters	p. 475
getline: Making awk Interactive	p. 476
Built-In Variables	p. 476
Arrays	p. 478
Functions	p. 478
Control Flow--The if Statement	p. 480
Looping: for and while	p. 482
Conclusion	p. 484
Summary	p. 484
Self-Test	p. 485
Exercises	p. 485
Key Terms	p. 486
Customizing the Environment	p. 487
Which Shell?	p. 488
Environment Variables	p. 490
Significance of the Environment (System) Variables	p. 493
Aliases	p. 501
Command History	p. 505
In-line Command Editing in Korn Shell and bash	p. 514
Filename Completion	p. 516
Miscellaneous Features	p. 520
The Initialization Scripts	p. 522
Summary	p. 529
Self-Test	p. 531
Exercises	p. 532
Key Terms	p. 533
Shell Programming	p. 535
Shell Variables	p. 536
Shell Scripts	p. 537
read: Making Scripts Interactive	p. 539
Positional Parameters	p. 540
Exit Status of a Command	p. 542
The Logical Operators andand and --Conditional Execution	p. 543
exit: Script Termination	p. 544
The if Conditional	p. 545
test and []: Companions of if	p. 548
The case Conditional	p. 555
expr: Computation and String Handling	p. 558
$0: Calling a Script with Different Names	p. 560
sleep and wait	p. 561
while and until: Looping	p. 562
Two Sample Scripts	p. 566
for: Looping with a List	p. 568
cpback2.sh: The Final Script	p. 573
Summary	p. 574
Self-Test	p. 576
Exercises	p. 576
Key Terms	p. 578
Advanced Shell Programming Including Korn and bash	p. 579
set: Assigning Values to Positional Parameters	p. 580
The Here Document ([[)	p. 584
let: Computation--A Second Look (ksh and bash)	p. 585
Redirection--A Second Look	p. 586
user_details.sh: A Script to List User Details	p. 588
Problems with Sub-Shells	p. 590
Arrays (ksh and bash)	p. 592
String Handling (ksh and bash)	p. 594
Conditional Parameter Substitution	p. 596
Shell Functions	p. 597
Devising Shell Functions	p. 598
eval: Evaluating Twice	p. 601
createuser.sh: Using eval to Create a User	p. 603
The exec Statement	p. 604
set -x: Debugging Shell Scripts	p. 607
trap: Interrupting a Program	p. 608
Summary	p. 609
Self-Test	p. 610
Exercises	p. 610
Key Terms	p. 612
Perl--The Master Manipulator	p. 613
perl Preliminaries	p. 614
chop(): Removing the Last Character	p. 615
Variables and Operators	p. 616
The String Handling Functions	p. 617
Specifying Filenames in Command Line	p. 618
$_: The Default Variable	p. 619
Current Line Number ($.) and the Range Operator (..)	p. 620
Lists and Arrays	p. 620
ARGV []: Command Line Arguments	p. 622
foreach: Looping Through a List	p. 623
split(): Splitting into a List	p. 624
join(): Joining a List	p. 625
Modifying Array Contents	p. 626
Associative Arrays	p. 627
Regular Expressions and Substitution	p. 629
File Handling	p. 632
File Tests	p. 633
Subroutines	p. 634
Conclusion	p. 636
CGI Programming with perl--An Overview	p. 636
Handling Form Data	p. 639
Summary	p. 643
Going Further	p. 644
Self-Test	p. 644
Exercises	p. 645
Going Further	p. 646
Key Terms	p. 646
System Administration I--The File System Revisited	p. 647
The Device	p. 648
Significance of Device Names	p. 649
The Hard Disk	p. 651
Partitions and File Systems	p. 652
File System Components	p. 654
The Directory	p. 658
The Standard File Systems	p. 659
File System Types	p. 659
Creating Partitions and File Systems	p. 660
File System Mounting and Unmounting	p. 663
fsck: File System Checking	p. 666
Summary	p. 668
Self-Test	p. 669
Exercises	p. 669
Key Terms	p. 670
System Administration II--The General Duties	p. 671
root: The System Administrator's Login	p. 672
The Administrator's Privileges	p. 673
Maintaining User Accounts	p. 675
Maintaining Security	p. 679
Booting	p. 681
Shutdown	p. 684
Handling Floppy Diskettes	p. 685
cpio: Copy Input-Output	p. 688
tar: The "Tape" Archive Program	p. 691
Managing the Disk Space	p. 697
Password Administration with passwd	p. 700
The rc Scripts Used by init	p. 700
Terminal Management	p. 702
Printing Preliminaries	p. 704
Administering an SVR4 Printer	p. 705
Summary	p. 712
Going Further	p. 713
Self-Test	p. 714
Exercises	p. 714
Going Further	p. 715
Key Terms	p. 716
TCP/IP Network Administration	p. 717
TCP/IP and the Addressing System	p. 717
Setting Up the Network Interface Card	p. 720
ifconfig: Configuring the Network Interface	p. 721
ping: Checking the Network	p. 722
Routing	p. 723
netstat: Displaying the Network Parameters	p. 725
inetd: The Internet Daemon	p. 726
pppd: The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)	p. 727
Using PPP to Connect to the Internet	p. 728
PAP and CHAP Authentication	p. 733
The Network File System	p. 734
Summary	p. 736
Self-Test	p. 737
Exercises	p. 738
Key Terms	p. 738
Going Further--Building the Internet Server	p. 739
The Network at Rational Planets	p. 740
The Domain Name Service (DNS)	p. 740
Setting Up DNS--Configuring the Master Server	p. 743
The Secondary and Caching Servers	p. 748
Configuring the Resolver	p. 749
ndc and nslookup: Testing the Configuration	p. 750
The Mail Service	p. 751
sendmail.cf: The Configuration File	p. 754
Aliases	p. 756
Setting Up the Mail Server for planets.com	p. 757
POP and IMAP: The Protocols for Offline Use	p. 759
Setting Up the Mail System at Velvet	p. 761
The Web Service	p. 763
httpd.conf: The Configuration File	p. 764
Virtual Hosting	p. 768
Directory Access Control	p. 769
Summary	p. 770
Self-Test	p. 772
Exercises	p. 772
Key Terms	p. 773
The C Shell--Programming Constructs	p. 775
vi/vim and emacs Command Reference	p. 781
The Regular Expression Superset	p. 791
The Shell Reference	p. 795
The HOWTO	p. 807
The ASCII Character Set	p. 815
Glossary	p. 819
Solutions to Self-Test Questions	p. 843
Bibliography	p. 857
vi Index	p. 861
emacs Index	p. 865
Commands and Key Terms	p. 869
C Shell	p. 871
Korn Shell	p. 873
bash	p. 875
Comprehensive Index	p. 877
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