Introduction to UNIX

Name: Introduction to UNIX
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ISBN: 9780072836202

ISBN-10: 0072836202

ISBN-13: 9780072836202

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kate Wrightson, Joe Merlino

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While most Unix books published today are aimed at working professionals, Introduction to Unix has been carefully developed to meet the needs of today's college/university students, Perfect for introductory courses in Unix-based computer classes, this text teaches students how to manage most common activities in a Unix shell account, how to use standard applications in an X-Windows environment, and it introduces students to some standard Unix system administration. Book jacket.

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List price: $79.06
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Publication date: 11/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

What Is Unix?	p. 1
Unix History and Background	p. 2
The Rise of the Operating System	p. 3
C and Unix	p. 4
The Growth of Unix	p. 5
Unix Today	p. 6
Unix as Cultural Phenomenon	p. 6
The Free Software Movement	p. 7
Linux and FreeBSD	p. 8
The Open Source Movement	p. 10
Flavors of Unix	p. 11
BSD versus SysV	p. 11
The Unix Philosophy	p. 12
Basic Unix Concepts	p. 15
What Is an Operating System?	p. 16
Structure of a Unix Operating System	p. 17
The Kernel	p. 17
The Shell	p. 18
The File System	p. 19
Users	p. 20
Accounts	p. 21
The Superuser	p. 22
Logging into Your Account	p. 23
Logging out of Your account	p. 25
Understanding Unix Commands	p. 29
The Shell Prompt	p. 30
What the Prompt Tells You	p. 31
Anatomy of a Command	p. 31
The Command Word	p. 31
Arguments and Options	p. 31
Input and Output Redirection	p. 32
Redirecting Output	p. 33
Redirecting Input	p. 34
Pipes	p. 35
Command Substitution	p. 36
The File System	p. 39
File System Types	p. 40
EXT2	p. 40
UFS	p. 40
FAT	p. 41
Files and Directories	p. 41
What Is a File?	p. 41
Types of Files	p. 42
Text Files	p. 42
Binary Files	p. 42
Directories	p. 43
Links	p. 43
Device Files	p. 43
Named Pipes	p. 44
Directories	p. 44
File Permissions	p. 45
The chmod Command	p. 46
Finding Yourself on the Machine	p. 49
Your Home Directory	p. 49
The pwd Command	p. 50
Moving Around the File System	p. 50
Navigating the File System	p. 50
Changing Directories	p. 51
Learning the Contents of a Directory	p. 52
Creating and Destroying Files and Directories	p. 53
Creating a Directory	p. 53
Creating a File	p. 54
Removing a File	p. 55
System Directories	p. 55
Making Sense of What You See	p. 55
The /bin Directory	p. 56
The /dev Directory	p. 56
The /etc Directory	p. 56
The /home Directory	p. 56
The /lib Directory	p. 56
The /sbin Directory	p. 57
The /tmp Directory	p. 57
The /usr Directory	p. 57
The /var Directory	p. 57
Jobs and Processes	p. 59
Keeping Track of Running Processes	p. 60
Foreground and Background Processes	p. 61
Managing Processes	p. 63
Managing Output	p. 65
Moving Jobs between Foreground and Background	p. 65
nice and renice	p. 66
The /proc Directory	p. 67
The Screen Program	p. 67
The Shell Environment	p. 71
Major Unix Shells	p. 72
The Bourne (Again) Shell	p. 72
The Bourne Shell	p. 72
The Korn Shell	p. 73
The C Shells	p. 73
The Z Shell	p. 74
Other Unix Shells	p. 74
scsh	p. 75
rc and es	p. 75
The Perl Shell	p. 75
Environment Variables	p. 75
Variables	p. 75
Common bash Environment Variables	p. 76
USR	p. 76
MAIL	p. 79
PS1	p. 79
HOSTNAME	p. 79
PATH	p. 79
Changing Environment Variables	p. 80
Run Control Files	p. 82
System-wide Run Control Files	p. 83
Personal Run Control Files	p. 84
Run Control Files in Other Shells	p. 86
The vi Editor	p. 91
What Is Text?	p. 92
Text Editors	p. 97
Line Editors vs. Visual Editors	p. 98
The vi Text Editor	p. 99
vi's Modes	p. 100
Insert Mode	p. 100
Edit Mode	p. 101
Using Insert Mode	p. 101
Using Edit Mode	p. 101
Editing in vi	p. 103
Copying and Pasting	p. 103
Deleting Text	p. 103
Search and Replace	p. 104
Abbreviations and Macros	p. 105
How to Create an Abbreviation	p. 105
How to Create a Macro	p. 106
The Set Command	p. 107
vi Run Control Files	p. 107
Setting Your Preferences in vi	p. 108
Saving and Exiting vi	p. 109
Other Text Editors	p. 111
GNU Emacs	p. 112
Starting GNU Emacs	p. 112
The GNU Emacs Screen	p. 114
Control and Meta Sequences	p. 114
Buffers	p. 114
Windows	p. 116
Saving and Exiting	p. 117
Fico	p. 117
joe	p. 119
NEdit	p. 121
Internet Applications	p. 129
Electronic Mail	p. 130
Electronic Mail Protocols	p. 130
fetchmail	p. 130
The $MAIL Variable	p. 132
Electronic Mail Clients	p. 132
mail	p. 133
ELM	p. 134
Configuring ELM	p. 135
PINE	p. 136
Configuring PINE	p. 137
Graphical Electronic Mail Programs	p. 137
The World Wide Web	p. 139
Lynx	p. 139
Netscape	p. 141
Mozilla	p. 141
Opera	p. 142
USENET News	p. 143
trn	p. 145
Networking I: Introduction to Unix Networking	p. 149
Remote Access and File Transfer	p. 150
telnet, rlogin, rcp and rsh: Why Nobody Uses Them Anymore	p. 150
telnet and rlogin	p. 152
rsh	p. 152
rcp	p. 153
A Security Note	p. 153
Secure Tools	p. 154
ssh	p. 154
scp	p. 155
Basic Networking Concepts	p. 155
How Networks Operate	p. 155
TCP/IP	p. 156
IP Numbers	p. 157
Name Resolution	p. 158
Networking Hardware and Software	p. 158
Modems	p. 159
Ethernet	p. 159
Hubs	p. 160
Routers	p. 160
Cable and DSL	p. 160
Networking II: Fundamentals of Unix Networking	p. 163
LANs, WANs, and Internets	p. 164
Local Area Networks	p. 164
Wide Area Networks	p. 164
Internets	p. 164
Network Topology	p. 165
The Bus Topology	p. 165
The Ring Topology	p. 166
The Hub Topology	p. 166
Ethernet Networking	p. 168
Configuring Ethernet under Unix	p. 169
Routers, Gateways, and DNS	p. 171
Defining Network Default Routes	p. 172
DNS	p. 173
Dial-up Networking	p. 174
Case Study: Setting Up a Simple Network	p. 176
Chapter 12: Shell Programming I: Introduction to Shell Programming	p. 183
What Is Shell Programming?	p. 183
Automating Repetitive Tasks	p. 184
Making the Complex Simple	p. 184
Programs and Scripts	p. 185
Anatomy of a Shell Program	p. 185
Invoking the Shell	p. 185
Comments	p. 186
Commands	p. 187
Data	p. 187
Flow Control	p. 188
Shell Programming II: Variables and Flow Control	p. 191
Shell Program Basics	p. 191
What Is a Variable?	p. 192
Variable Names	p. 192
Variable Types	p. 193
Assigning Variables	p. 194
The $ Operator	p. 194
Variable Interpolation	p. 195
Special Variables	p. 196
Conditional Flow Control	p. 196
The if-then Construct	p. 197
The if-then-else Construct	p. 199
The if-then-elif-then Construct	p. 201
The Case Construct	p. 202
Iterative Flow Control	p. 202
The while Loop	p. 203
The until Loop	p. 204
The for Loop	p. 204
The select Statement	p. 205
Shell Programming III: Regular Expressions	p. 209
grep, sed, and awk	p. 210
grep	p. 211
grep Metacharacters	p. 212
grep Meta-"noncharacters"	p. 212
"Anti-meta-noncharacters"	p. 213
The Pluralizer	p. 214
sed	p. 214
Line Addresses	p. 216
sed Scripts	p. 216
sed Commands	p. 216
awk	p. 217
Changing the Field Separator	p. 221
Using Pattern Matching with awk	p. 222
awk Scripts	p. 222
Shell Programming IV: Signals and Status	p. 225
Exit Status	p. 225
Creating Exit Status	p. 228
Signals	p. 229
Unique Identifiers	p. 229
Sending Signals	p. 230
Signal Traps	p. 231
Pulling It All Together	p. 232
Selecting Techniques	p. 237
Basic System Administration: Part I	p. 241
The System Administrator	p. 242
Managing Users	p. 243
Adding Users	p. 243
Deleting Users	p. 244
Managing User Groups	p. 245
Disk Management	p. 246
What Is a Disk?	p. 246
Disk Partitions	p. 247
The Unix Filesystem	p. 247
Mounting Directories and Devices	p. 248
Mounting Local Partitions	p. 248
Mounting Remote Devices	p. 249
Backups	p. 250
System Security	p. 251
Physical Security	p. 252
Internal Security	p. 252
External Security	p. 253
Password Security	p. 254
Basic System Administration: Part II	p. 259
Managing Software	p. 260
Installing Software from Source Code	p. 260
Getting and Unpacking the Package	p. 261
Reading the Documentation	p. 263
Configuring the Installation	p. 264
Compiling the Software	p. 264
Package Management Systems	p. 265
Case in Point: RPM	p. 266
Build	p. 266
Architecture	p. 267
Printer Administration	p. 268
Working with CUPS	p. 268
Adding a Printer	p. 268
Controlling Printers	p. 270
Network Printing	p. 272
The X Window System	p. 275
What Is the X Window System?	p. 276
How X Windows Works	p. 277
Features of X Windows	p. 278
Window Managers and Desktop Environments	p. 278
Installing and Starting X	p. 280
X Windows and Networks	p. 281
X across the Internet	p. 282
Customizing the X Environment	p. 283
Fonts	p. 283
Font Servers	p. 284
Colors	p. 284
Hex Values and Color Names	p. 285
X Windows and Security	p. 285
Remote Access	p. 286
Ports and Access	p. 286
X Windows and Adaptive User Environments	p. 287
Running Servers	p. 291
What Is a Service?	p. 292
Selecting Services	p. 292
World Wide Web Services	p. 293
Apache	p. 294
Other Web Servers	p. 294
boa	p. 295
jigsaw	p. 295
WN	p. 295
Electronic Mail Servers	p. 295
Mail Server Options	p. 296
sendmail	p. 296
Postfix	p. 297
qmail	p. 297
Exim	p. 297
POP and IMAP	p. 297
FTP Servers	p. 298
News Servers	p. 299
INN	p. 300
Remote Access Services	p. 301
File Transfer Protocol	p. 301
Remote Login Access	p. 302
Configuring inetd	p. 302
Common Unix Commands	p. 307
Glossary	p. 335
Sample Configuration Scripts	p. 343
Internet Resources	p. 383
Index	p. 395
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