UNIX Made Easy

Name: UNIX Made Easy
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ISBN: 9780072193145

ISBN-10: 007219314X

ISBN-13: 9780072193145

Edition: 3rd 2002

Authors: John Muster

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Beginning with an overview of the system and its key components, this step-by-step guide covers basic administration tasks before going on to provide the reader with in-depth coverage of UNIX programming, including variables and shell scripts.

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List price: $39.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Publication date: 4/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1011
Size: 7.10" wide x 9.00" long x 2.11" tall
Weight: 3.586
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
About This Book	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Mastering Essential UNIX/Linux
Accessing the System Using Graphical Desktops	p. 3
Establishing Communication with UNIX/Linux	p. 4
Exploring the Graphical Desktop Environment	p. 11
Touring the Features of UNIX/Linux	p. 17
Running Programs in UNIX	p. 19
How UNIX Does Its Work	p. 29
Giving Instructions to the Shell	p. 32
Using Utilities to Examine and Manage Files	p. 45
Employing the UNIX Toolbox of Utilities	p. 55
Managing Input and Output	p. 66
Employing Special Characters in Command Lines	p. 74
Modifying the User Environment	p. 87
Examining the File System	p. 92
Examining the Components of a Functioning System	p. 97
Command Summary	p. 111
Editing with the Visual Editor	p. 115
Introducing the Visual Editor	p. 116
Working in an Existing File with vi	p. 117
Touring the Visual Editor	p. 119
Quickly Moving Around in a File	p. 133
Deleting Text from a File	p. 146
Adding Text to a File	p. 152
Undoing and Repeating Editing Commands	p. 158
Avoiding Confusion Between the Shell and the vi Editor	p. 161
Creating New Files with the Visual Editor	p. 163
Making Text Changes	p. 168
Making Global Changes	p. 173
Searching for the Line Target	p. 174
Moving and Copying Text	p. 176
Writing the File and Quitting the Editor	p. 186
Interaction with the Shell from Within vi	p. 193
Editing Multiple Files	p. 195
Customizing the Visual Editor	p. 198
Having a Single Key Accomplish a Complex Task	p. 204
Integrating Features of the Visual Editor	p. 210
Command Summary	p. 218
Using Basic UNIX Utilities	p. 227
Extending Utilities Examined in the Tour	p. 228
Selecting Portions of a File with cut	p. 234
Formatting Output in Columns	p. 237
Putting Lines Together with paste	p. 238
Searching Files with grep	p. 241
Calculating with bc	p. 248
Ordering the Lines of a File with sort	p. 251
Identifying and Removing Duplicate Lines	p. 270
Comparing the Contents of Two Files with comm	p. 273
Examining Differences Between Files	p. 279
Translating Characters to Other Characters with tr	p. 281
Listing Names of Files and Directories	p. 287
Combining Selected Lines with join	p. 288
Editing from the Command Line with sed	p. 291
Manipulating Data with awk	p. 297
Sending Output to a File and to Another Utility	p. 301
Determining What Kind of File	p. 303
Touching Files	p. 303
Employing Multiple Utilities to Achieve Broader Goals	p. 304
Command Summary	p. 310
Using Multiple Utilities in Scripts	p. 311
Employing Utilities to Obtain Information	p. 312
Listing Directories and Files Separately	p. 314
Identifying Changes Made to Files in a Directory	p. 318
Creating a Complex Word Analysis Script	p. 320
Obtaining Relational Data	p. 334
Creating and Changing UNIX Directories	p. 343
Employing Directories to Create Order	p. 344
Managing Files in Directories	p. 358
Using Pathnames to Manage Files in Directories	p. 370
Accessing Files in Remote Directories Using All Methods	p. 392
Examining the Long Listing for Files	p. 404
Managing Files from More Than One Directory	p. 405
Moving and Removing Directories and Their Contents	p. 415
Removing Directories and Files	p. 419
Command Summary	p. 426
Accessing and Changing Previous Commands	p. 427
Surveying Shells and Features	p. 428
Using the History Feature with csh, tcsh, bash, and ksh	p. 430
Using Editing Commands to Modify the History	p. 442
Summarizing the Features of the Shells	p. 446
Command Summary	p. 449
Specifying Instructions to the Shell	p. 451
Examining Shell Command-Line Execution	p. 453
Shell Command-Line Expansion	p. 499
Customizing How the Shell Functions	p. 518
Employing Advanced User Features	p. 526
Command Summary	p. 540
Setting File and Directory Permissions	p. 543
Describing File Permissions	p. 544
Using Execute Permissions with a File	p. 552
Changing File Permissions Using Mnemonics	p. 555
Changing File Permissions Numerically	p. 560
Changing Permissions for Group and Other	p. 566
Exploring the Effect of Granting Different Permissions	p. 571
Modifying Directory Permissions	p. 575
Changing Permissions for Files in All Subdirectories	p. 587
Identifying Other Permissions	p. 592
Setting Permissions When Files and Directories Are Created	p. 593
Inheriting Permissions When Files Are Copied	p. 604
Command Summary	p. 612
Obtaining Help from Online Resources	p. 613
Accessing the Programmer's Manual	p. 614
Outputting Manual Pages to a File or Printer	p. 616
Locating Information with info	p. 617
Accessing Internet Resources	p. 623
Command Summary	p. 625
Controlling User Processes	p. 627
Processing Processes	p. 628
Managing Jobs	p. 641
Exiting When Jobs Have Been Stopped	p. 652
Command Summary	p. 657
Managing, Printing, and Archiving Large Files	p. 659
Viewing Long Files Safely with vi	p. 660
Splitting Long Files	p. 662
Paginating Long Files	p. 664
Printing Your Heart Out	p. 668
Locating Files with find	p. 672
Archiving Long Files	p. 677
Surveying Backup and Archiving Utilities	p. 680
Command Summary	p. 685
Programming in the Shell with Power Utilities
Special Characters and Programming Structures	p. 689
Shell Interpretation of Special Characters	p. 690
Examining Shell Programming Features	p. 710
Creating Shell Scripts	p. 725
Command Summary	p. 735
Employing Aliases and Functions	p. 737
Using Temporary Aliases	p. 738
Making Aliases Permanent	p. 745
Working with Complex Aliases	p. 747
Avoiding an Alias Loop	p. 749
Passing Arguments to an Alias in the C Shell	p. 751
Employing Functions in the bash and ksh Shells	p. 754
Command Summary	p. 761
Selecting Lines with grep and Regular Expressions	p. 763
Creating an Example File	p. 764
Modifying How and Where grep Searches for Lines	p. 766
Searching for Lines Using Basic Metacharacters	p. 771
Locating Characters in a Set	p. 780
A Comparison of grep, egrep, and fgrep	p. 796
Command Summary	p. 807
Editing the Data Stream with sed	p. 809
Creating Example Files for sed Exercises	p. 810
Quitting sed After Matching Specific Text or Line Number	p. 812
Deleting Lines from a Copy of a File	p. 814
Making Basic Substitutions for Specific Text	p. 818
Printing Selected Lines	p. 820
Performing Complex Substitutions and Printing	p. 825
Reading and Writing Files from sed	p. 830
Passing Multiple Instructions to sed	p. 831
Examining the Workings of the sed Utility	p. 835
Command Summary	p. 840
Data Manipulation with awk	p. 841
Selecting Records with awk	p. 842
Using a Database with awk	p. 845
Selecting Records with Regular Expressions	p. 853
Selecting Records by Specific Database Components	p. 855
Creating and Using awk Command Files	p. 861
Making awk Programs Easier to Read	p. 868
Performing Arithmetic Operations in awk	p. 872
Using the printf Function to Format Output	p. 878
Using the BEGIN and END Patterns	p. 880
Command Summary	p. 885
Programming with the Shell	p. 889
Interactively Choosing Options from a Menu	p. 890
Constructing a Backup Script	p. 913
Using Options with Scripts	p. 916
Command Summary	p. 927
Shell Programming with Multiple Utilities	p. 933
Creating a Phone Search Script	p. 934
Creating a Complex Group Member Script	p. 942
Creating a Complex Script for Project Management	p. 965
Command Summary	p. 975
Modifying the User Environment	p. 977
Employing Control Files with the Shells	p. 979
Properly Using the Control Files	p. 984
Tailoring How the Shell Interacts with You	p. 985
Creating Variables for Shortcuts	p. 988
Using stty to Set Input and Output Options on a Terminal	p. 988
Command Summary	p. 992
Index	p. 993
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