Your Unix

Sumitabha Das has a degree in electrical engineering from Calcutta University (1977). He left the program halfway through working on his Master's degree to become Deputy Director of the Indian Ministry of Defense Following this, Sumitabha started his own company. Having initially offered consulting services in UNIX system administration and Oracle DBA, he now focuses on providing Linux-based Internetworking solutions. In 1993 his book on UNIX hit the Indian market. Today, it is in its second edition and remains the undisputed market leader. Your UNIX: The Ultimate Guide is a collection of Sumitabha's harrowing experiences and the ultimate delight he found in the UNIX world.

1 Introducing UNIX 2 Becoming Familiar with UNIX Commands 3 The File System 4 File Attributes 5 The vi/vim Editor 6 The GNU emacs Editor 7 The Shell 8 The Process 9 The Shell--Customizing the Environment 10 Simple Filters 11 Filters Using Regular Expressions--grep and sed 12 Filtering and Programming with awk 13 Shell Programming 14 Networking Tools 15 perl--The Master Manipulator 16 Program Development Tools 17 Systems Programming I--Files 18 Systems Programming II--Process Control 19 System Administration Appendix A The C Shell--Programming Constructs Appendix B The Korn and Bash Shells--Exclusive Programming Constructs Appendix C vi/vim and emacs Command Reference Appendix D The Regular Expression Superset Appendix E The HOWTO Appendix F The ASCII Character Set Appendix G Glossary Appendix H Solutions to Self-Test Questions