Learning the UNIX Operating System Q/Ref

Jerry Peek has used Unix since the early 1980s. He has consulted on Unix and VMS, developed and taught Unix courses, been a staff writer for O'Reilly & Associates, and has worked as a programmer and system administrator. Grace Todino is currently residing in Holland. While working as a technical writer at O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Grace was one of the original authors of the Nutshell Handbooks?, Managing UUCP and Usenet and Using UUCP and Usenet. John Strang now finds himself "a consumer--rather than a producer of Nutshells." He is currently a diagnostic radiologist (MD) at Stanford University. He plans to use his experience as an author at ORA to write his own book on radiology.

Preface Chapter 1. Getting Started Working in the Unix Environment Syntax of Unix Command Lines Types of Commands The Unresponsive Terminal Chapter 2. Using Window Systems Introduction to Windowing Starting X Running Programs Working with a Mouse Working with Windows Other Window Manager Features Unresponsive Windows Other X Window Programs Quitting Chapter 3. Using Your Unix Account The Unix Filesystem Looking Inside Files with less Protecting and Sharing Files Graphical Filesystem Browsers Completing File and Directory Names Changing Your Password Customizing Your Account Chapter 4. File Management File and Directory Names File and Directory Wildcards Creating and Editing Files Managing Your Files Printing Files Chapter 5. Redirecting I/O Standard Input and Standard Output Pipes and Filters Chapter 6. Using the Internet and Other Networks Remote Logins Windows from Other Computers Lynx, a Text-based Web Browser Transferring Files Electronic Mail Usenet News Interactive Chat Chapter 7. Multitasking Running a Command in the Background Checking on a Process Cancelling a Process Chapter 8. Where to Go from Here Documentation Shell Aliases and Functions Programming Using Unix on Non-Unix Systems Glossary Index