Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide (4th Edition)

With Unix, 4th Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the Unix operating system, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots, and includes three years worth of new material based on the latest Unix developments. This reference guide details all Unix commands and options along with tips that put those commands in context. Leading Unix authorities Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray leverage their expertise as technical writers and working in the industry (Sun Microsystems) as they take readers step-by-step through the most common Unix commands and options. 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Creating Files with touch 47 Copying Directories and Files with cp 49 Listing Directories and Files with ls (More Goodies) 51 Moving Files with mv 53 Removing Files with rm 54 Removing Directories with rmdir 57 Finding Forgotten Files with find 59 Locating Lost Files with locate 61 Linking with ln (Hard Links) 62 Linking with ln -s (Soft Links) 64 Chapter 3: Working with Your Shell 66 Discovering Which Shell You鈥檙e Using 67 Understanding Shells and Options 68 Changing Your Shell with chsh 70 Changing Your Shell Temporarily 72 Using Completion in the bash Shell 74 Viewing Session History in the bash Shell 75 Using Completion in the zsh Shell 77 Viewing Session History in the zsh Shell 78 Changing Your Identity with su 80 Fixing Terminal Settings with stty 82 Exiting the Shell 83 Chapter 4: Creating and Editing Files 84 Choosing an Editor 85 Starting pico and Dabbling with It 88 Saving in pico 89 Cutting and Pasting Text Blocks in pico 90 Checking Spelling in pico 91 Getting Help in pico 92 Exiting pico 93 Starting vi and Dabbling with It 94 Saving in vi 96 Adding and Deleting Text in vi 97 Importing Files into vi 98 Searching and Replacing in vi 99 Exiting vi 101 Starting emacs and Dabbling with It 102 Using emacs Menus to Spell-Check 104 Saving in emacs 105 Exiting emacs 106 Chapter 5: Controlling Ownership and Permissions 108 Understanding File Ownership and Permissions 109 Finding Out Who Owns What 110 Finding Out Which Group You鈥檙e In 112 Changing the Group Association of Files and Directories with chgrp 114 Changing Ownership of Files and Directories with chown 116 Changing Permissions with chmod 118 Translating Mnemonic Permissions to Numeric Permissions 121 Changing Permission Defaults with umask 122 Chapter 6: Manipulating Files 124 Counting Files and Their Contents with wc 125 Viewing File Beginnings with head 126 Viewing File Endings with tail 127 Finding Text with grep 128 Using Regular Expressions with grep 129 Using Other Examples of Regular Expressions 131 Making Global Changes with sed 132 Changing Files with awk 133 Comparing Files with cmp 135 Finding Differences in Files with diff 136 Finding Differences in Files with sdiff 137 Sorting Files with sort 138 Eliminating Duplicates with uniq 140 Redirecting to Multiple Locations with tee 141 Changing with tr 142 Formatting with fmt 144 Splitting Files with split 146 Chapter 7: Getting Information About the System 148 Getting System Information with uname 149 Viewing File Systems with df 150 Determining Disk Usage with du 153 Finding Out File Types with file 154 Finding Out About Users with finger 155 Learning Who Else Is Logged in with who 158 Learning Who Else Is Logged in with w 159 Getting Information About Your Userid with id 161 Chapter 8: Configuring Your Unix Environment 162 Understanding Your Unix Environment 163 Discovering Your Current Environment 165 Adding or Changing Variables 167 Looking at Your zsh Configuration Files 169 Adding to Your zsh Path 173 Changing Your zsh Prompt 175 Looking at Your bash Configuration Files 178 Adding to Your bash Path 181 Changing Your bash Prompt 183 Setting Aliases with alias 185 Chapter 9: Running Scripts and Programs 188 Running a Command 189 Scheduling Onetime Jobs with at 190 Scheduling Regularly Occurring Jobs with cron 193 Suspending Jobs 195 Checking Job Status with jobs 196 Running Jobs in the Background with bg 197 Running Jobs in the Foreground with fg 198 Controlling Job Priority with nice 199 Timing Jobs with time 200 Finding Out What Processes Are Running with ps 202 Deleting Processes with kill 204 Chapter 10: Writing Basic Scripts 206 Creating a Shell Script 207 Running a Shell Script 209 Making a Script Executable 210 Getting a Head Start on Scripts with history 212 Embedding Commands 213 Looping Your Scripts 215 Creating If-Then Statements 217 Accepting Command-Line Arguments in Your Scripts 220 Accepting Input While a Script Is Running 221 Debugging Scripts 223 Chapter 11: Sending and Reading E-mail 224 Choosing an E-mail Program and Getting Started 225 Reading E-mail with pine 227 Sending E-mail with pine 229 Customizing pine 231 Reading E-mail with mutt 233 Sending E-mail with mutt 235 Reading E-mail with mail 237 Sending E-mail with mail 238 Creating a Signature File 240 Automatically Forwarding Incoming Messages 242 Announcing an Absence with vacation 243 Configuring procmail 245 Managing E-mail with procmail 247 Chapter 12: Accessing the Internet 250 Getting Familiar with Unix Internet Lingo 251 Logging in to Remote Systems with ssh 253 Logging in to Remote Systems with telnet 254 Communicating with Others Using write 256 Communicating with Others Using talk 257 Getting Files from the Internet with ftp 258 Sharing Files on the Internet with ftp 262 Surfing the Web with links 264 Surfing the Web with lynx 266 Downloading Web Sites with wget 268 Checking Connections with ping 269 Tracing Connections with traceroute 270 Matching Domain Names with IP Addresses 272 Chapter 13: Working with Encoded and Compressed Files 274 Encoding Files with uuencode 275 Decoding Files with uudecode 278 Archiving with tar 279 Unarchiving Files with tar 281 Compressing Files with compress 282 Uncompressing Files with uncompress 283 Zipping a File or Directory with gzip 284 Unzipping a gzip File with gunzip 285 Zipping Files and Directories with zip 286 Unzipping Zipped Files with unzip 287 Combining Commands 288 Chapter 14: Using Handy Utilities 290 Calendaring with cal 291 Calculating with bc 294 Evaluating Expressions with expr 295 Converting with units 296 Looking It Up with look 297 Keeping a Record of Your Session with script 298 Chapter 15: Being Root 302 Acting Like root with sudo 303 Becoming root with su 305 Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Daemons 307 Changing the System Configuration 309 Monitoring the System 311 Keeping up with watch 314 Checking Boot Messages with dmesg 315 Setting the Date and Time 317 Chapter 16: Sensational Unix Tricks 318 Cleaning Up HTML Documents with tidy 319 Searching and Replacing Throughout Multiple Documents with sed 322 Generating Reports with awk 325 Using Input to Customize Your Environment 326 Using ROT13 Encoding with sed 328 Embedding ROT13 Encoding in a Shell Script 330 Making Backups with rsync 333 Using Advanced Redirection with stderr 335 Appendix A: Unix Reference 338 Appendix B: What鈥檚 What and What鈥檚 Where 354 Appendix C: Commands and Flags 358 Index 392 A 392 B 393 C 393 D 395 E 395 F 397 G 398 H 399 I 399 J 400 K 400 L 400 M 401 N 401 O 401 P 402 Q 403 R 403 S 404 T 406 U 407 V 407 W 408 Y 408 Z 408 From the Publisher: With Unix, 4th Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start from the beginning to get a tour of the Unix operating system, or look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots, and includes three years worth of new material based on the latest Unix developments. This reference guide details all Unix commands and options along with tips that put those commands in context. Leading Unix authorities Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray leverage their expertise as technical writers and working in the industry (Sun Microsystems) as they take readers step-by-step through the most common Unix commands and options