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| Introduction and Background: | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How to use this book | |
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| Installing Unix and Perl: | |
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| What do I need in order to learn Unix and Perl? | |
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| Installing Linux on a PC | |
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| Installing a code editor | |
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| Essential Unix: | |
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| Introduction to Unix | |
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| The Unix terminal | |
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| The Unix command prompt | |
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| Your first Unix command | |
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| The hierarchy of a Unix file system | |
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| Finding out where you are in the filesystem | |
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| How to navigate a Unix filesystem | |
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| Absolute and relative paths | |
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| Working with your home directory | |
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| The Unix shell | |
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| Environment variables | |
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| Introduction to command-line options | |
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| Main pages | |
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| Working with directories | |
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| The importance of saving keystrokes | |
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| Moving and renaming files | |
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| Moving and renaming directories | |
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| How to remove files | |
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| How to copy files and directories | |
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| Working with text files | |
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| Introduction to aliases | |
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| Editing text files | |
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| Automating Unix commands | |
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| How to hide files and find hidden files | |
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| Creating a configuration file | |
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| Programming with Unix | |
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| Unix file permissions | |
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| How to specify which directories contain programs | |
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| Creating useful shell scripts | |
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| Unix summary | |
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| Essential Perl: | |
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| Hello world | |
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| Scalar variables | |
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| Use warnings | |
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| Maths and functions | |
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| Perl vs perl | |
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| Conditional statements | |
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| Use strict | |
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| Stopping programs | |
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| Working with strings | |
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| Dealing with special characters | |
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| Matching operators | |
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| The transliteration operator | |
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| List context | |
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| Introduction to arrays | |
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| Array manipulation | |
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| The @ARGV array | |
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| Defined and undefined variables | |
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| Sorting | |
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| Introduction to loops | |
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| More loops | |
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| Loop control | |
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| Data input and output | |
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| Reading and writing files | |
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| Introduction to hashes | |
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| Working with hashes | |
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| Introduction to regular expressions | |
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| Regular expression metacharacters | |
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| Working with regular expressions | |
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| Interacting with other programs | |
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| Using functions and subroutines | |
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| Returning data from a subroutine | |
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| Part IV summary | |
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| Advanced Unix: | |
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| Introduction to advanced Unix | |
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| Introduction to process control | |
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| The grep command | |
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| Viewing, and controlling, program output | |
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| Redirecting input and output | |
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| Standard error | |
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| Connecting commands with pipelines | |
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| Advanced text manipulation | |
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| Advanced Perl: | |
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| Regular expressions revisited | |
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| Function libraries | |
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| References and 2-dimensional arrays | |
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| Records and other hash references | |
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| Using references with subroutines | |
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| Complex data structures | |
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| Adding command-line options | |
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| OOP basics | |
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| CPAN | |
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| Programming Topics: | |
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| Debugging strategies | |
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| Common error messages | |
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| Code beautification | |
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| Abstraction | |
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| Data management | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Revision control | |
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| Working with other peoples' data | |
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| Getting help | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |