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Guide to Unix Using Linux

by: Dent, Jack; Gaddis, Tony

Guide to Unix Using Linux

by: Dent, Jack; Gaddis, Tony

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9780760010969
ISBN 10:
076001096X
Edition: CD
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/01/1999
Publisher: Course Technology Ptr
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Provides a hands-on, practical guide that teaches the fundamentals of the UNIX operating system concepts, architecture, and administration. CD-ROM included.

Introduction

xiii

The Essence of Unix

(34)

Lesson A: Getting Started with UNIX

(19)

Understanding Operating Systems

(1)

PC Operating Systems

(1)

Mainframe Operating System

(1)

Network Operating Systems

(1)

Introducing the UNIX Operating System

(1)

A Brief History of UNIX

(1)

UNIX Concepts

(1)

Linux and UNIX

(1)

Introducing UNIX Shells

(1)

Choosing Your Shell

(1)

Switching from Shell to Shell

(1)

Choosing User Names and Passwords

(1)

Connecting to UNIX Using Telnet

(1)

Logging On to UNIX

(1)

Entering Commands

(1)

The date Command

(1)

The cal Command

(2)

The who Command

(2)

Command-line Editing

(1)

Multiple Command Entry

(1)

The clear Command

(1)

The Command-line History

(1)

The man Program

(1)

The whatis Command

(1)

Logging Out of UNIX

(1)

Lesson B: Roles of the System Administrator and Ordinary Users

(14)

Understanding the Role of the UNIX System Administrator

(1)

The System Administrator's Command Line

(1)

The Ordinary User's Command Line

(1)

Changing Passwords

(1)

Viewing Files Using the cat, more, less, head, and tail Commands

(1)

Redirecting Output

(2)

Summary

(1)

Command Summary

(1)

Review Questions

(4)

Exercises

(1)

Discovery Exercises

(2)

Exploring the Unix File System

(34)

Lesson A: Understanding Files and Directories

(20)

Understanding the UNIX File System

(1)

Understanding the Standard Tree Structure

(1)

Using UNIX Partitions

(1)

Setting Up File System Partitions

(1)

The/usr Partition

(1)

The /home Partition

(1)

The /swap Partition

(1)

Exploring the Root File System

(1)

The /bin Directory

(1)

The /boot Directory

(1)

The /dev Directory

(2)

The /etc Directory

(1)

The /lib Directory

(1)

The /mnt Directory

(1)

The /proc Directory

(1)

The /root Directory

(1)

The /sbin Directory

(1)

The /tmp Directory

(1)

The /var Directory

(1)

Using the mount Command

(1)

Understanding Paths and Pathnames

(1)

Using Your Command-line Prompt

(1)

Customizing Your Prompt

(1)

The pwd Command

(7)

Using Wildcards

Navigating the File System

(1)

Using Dot and Dot Dot Addressing Techniques

(1)

Listing Directory Contents

(4)

Using Wildcards

(2)

Lesson B: Working with Files and Directories

(13)

Creating Directories and Files

(1)

Copying Files

(1)

Setting File Permissions

(3)

Summary

(1)

Command Summary

(1)

Review Questions

(4)

Exercises

(1)

Discovery Exercises

(2)

The Unix Editors

(32)

Lesson A: The vi Editor

(21)

Understanding UNIX Files

(1)

ASCII Text Files

(1)

GUI Files

(1)

Executable Program Files

(1)

Using Operating System Editors

(1)

Using the vi Editor

(1)

Creating a New File in the vi Editor

(1)

Inserting Text

(1)

Repeating a Change

(1)

Moving the Cursor

(1)

Deleting Text

(3)

Undoing a Command

(1)

Searching for a Pattern

(2)

Searching and Replacing

(1)

Saving a File and Exiting vi

(1)

Adding Text from Another File

(1)

Leaving vi Temporarily

(1)

Changing Your Display While Editing

(1)

Copying or Cutting and Pasting

(1)

Printing vi files

(1)

Canceling an Editing Session

(1)

Summary

(1)

Command Summary

(1)

Review Questions

(3)

Exercises

(1)

Discovery Exercises

(1)

Lesson B: The Emacs Editor

(10)

Using the Emacs Editor

(2)

Creating a New File in Emacs

(1)

Editing an Emacs File

(2)

Summary

(1)

Command Summary

(1)

Review Questions

(2)

Exercises

(1)

Discovery Exercises

100

(1)

Unix File Processing

101

(38)

Lesson A: Extracting Information from Files

102

(25)

UNIX's Approach to File Processing

102

(1)

Understanding UNIX File Types

102

(1)

UNIX File Structures

103

(1)

Processing Files

104

(1)

Using Input and Error Redirection

104

(2)

Manipulating Files

106

(1)

Creating Files

106

(1)

Deleting Files

107

(1)

Removing Directories

108

(1)

Copying Files

108

(2)

Recursively Removing Directories

110

(1)

Moving Files

111

(1)

Finding Files

112

(1)

Combining Files

112

(2)

The Paste Command

114

(1)

Using the Cut Command to Remove Fields

115

(4)

Using the Sort Command

119

(1)

Putting It All Together

120

(4)

Summary

124

(1)

Review Questions

124

(2)

Exercises

126

(1)

Discovery Exercises

126

(1)

Lesson B: Assembling Extracted Information

127

(12)

Using Script Files

127

(1)

Using the Join Command

128

(2)

Using the Join Command to Create the Vendor Report

130

(1)

A Brief Introduction to Awk

131

(1)

Using the Awk Command to Refine the Vendor Report

132

(2)

Summary

134

(1)

Command Summary

134

(2)

Review Questions

136

(1)

Exercises

137

(1)

Discovery Exercises

137

(2)

Advanced File Processing

139

(38)

Lesson A: Selecting, Manipulating, and Formatting Information

140

(18)

Advancing Your File Processing Skills

140

(2)

Using the Select Commands

142

(1)

Using Pipes

142

(1)

Using the grep Command

143

(1)

Using the uniq Command

144

(2)

Using the comm Command

146

(1)

Using the diff Command

147

(1)

Using the wc Command

148

(1)

Using the Manipulate and Format Commands

148

(1)

Introducing sed

148

(3)

Translating Characters Using the tr Command

151

(1)

Using the pr Command to Format Your Output

152

(2)

Command Summary

154

(1)

Summary

154

(1)

Review Questions

155

(2)

Exercises

157

(1)

Discovery Exercises

157

(1)

Lesson B: Using UNIX File Processing Tools to Create an Application

158

(19)

Designing a New File Processing Application

158

(1)

Designing Records

158

(1)

Linking Files

159

(1)

Creating the Programmer and Project Files

160

(3)

Formatting Output

163

(2)

Cutting and Sorting

165

(2)

Using a Shell Program to Implement the Application

167

(4)

Putting It All Together to Produce the Report

171

(2)

Command Summary

173

(1)

Summary

173

(1)

Review Questions

173

(1)

Exercises

174

(1)

Discovery Exercises

175

(2)

Introduction to Shell Programming

177

(46)

Lesson A: Using the UNIX Shell as a Programming Language

178

(29)

Previewing the Application

178

(1)

The Program Development Cycle

179

(1)

Using High-Level Languages

180

(1)

Using UNIX Shell Scripts

181

(1)

Prototyping an Application

182

(1)

The Programming Shell

182

(1)

Variables

183

(4)

Shell Operators

187

(1)

Defining and Evaluating Operators

188

(1)

Exporting Shell Variables to the Environment

189

(1)

Arithmetic Operators

190

(2)

Preventing Redirection from Overwriting Files

192

(1)

More About Wildcard Characters

192

(1)

Shell Logic Structures

193

(1)

Sequential Logic

193

(1)

Decision Logic

193

(3)

Looping Logic

196

(5)

Case Logic

201

(1)

Summary

202

(1)

Review Questions

203

(2)

Exercises

205

(1)

Discovery Exercises

205

(2)

Lesson B: Creating and Completing the Corporate Phones Application

207

(16)

Using Shell Programming to Create a Menu

207

(2)

Customizing Your Personal Environment

209

(2)

The trap Command

211

(1)

Creating the Corp_phones File

211

(2)

Viewing Unformatted Records

213

(1)

Using Awk

214

(2)

Creating the Phoneadd Shell Program

216

(2)

Summary

218

(1)

Command Summary

218

(1)

Review Questions

219

(2)

Exercises

221

(1)

Discovery Exercises

221

(2)

Advanced Shell Programming

223

(52)

Lesson A: Developing a Full Featured Program

224

(31)

Analyzing the Program

224

(1)

Flowcharting

224

(3)

Writing Pseudocode

227

(1)

Ensuring the Correct Shell Runs the Script

228

(1)

Using the test Command

229

(1)

Relational Integer Tests with the test Command

229

(2)

String Tests with the test Command

231

(3)

Testing Files with the test Command

234

(2)

Performing Boolean Tests with the test Command

236

(7)

Formatting Record Output

243

(4)

Deleting Phone Records

247

(3)

Summary

250

(1)

Review Questions

251

(1)

Exercises

252

(2)

Discovery Exercises

254

(1)

Lesson B: Completing the Case Project

255

(20)

Clearing the Screen

255

(1)

Moving the Cursor

256

(1)

Creating Program Algorithms

256

(6)

Protecting Against Entering Duplicate Phone Numbers

262

(3)

Using Shell Functions

265

(2)

Reusing Code

267

(2)

Sorting the Phone List

269

(1)

Summary

270

(1)

Command Summary

271

(1)

Review Questions

272

(1)

Exercises

273

(1)

Discovery Exercises

274

(1)

Exploring the Unix Utilities

275

(42)

Lesson A: Using the Unix Utilities

276

(30)

Understanding UNIX Utilities

276

(1)

Classifying UNIX Utility Programs

277

(5)

Using the File Processing Utilities

282

(1)

Using the dd Command

282

(1)

Making a Bootable Floppy Disk

283

(5)

Checking Hard Disk Usage

288

(1)

Using the df Utility

289

(2)

Using the du Utility

291

(2)

Removing Garbage Files

293

(2)

Applying System Status Utilities

295

(7)

Summary

302

(1)

Review Questions

303

(1)

Exercises

304

(1)

Discovery Exercises

305

(1)

Lesson B: Working with the Text Formatting File Utilities

306

(11)

Spell-checking a Document

306

(2)

Comparing Files

308

(1)

Formatting Text in UNIX

309

(5)

Summary

314

(1)

Review Questions

314

(2)

Exercises

316

(1)

Discovery Exercises

316

(1)

Perl and CGI Programming

317

(46)

Lesson A: Learning to Use Perl

318

(30)

Introduction to Perl

318

(7)

Identifying Data Types

325

(1)

Variables and Constants

326

(1)

Scalars

326

(1)

Numbers

326

(1)

Strings

326

(2)

Arrays

328

(1)

Hashes

329

(1)

Perl versus Awk Programs

330

(3)

How Perl Accesses Disk Files

333

(4)

Using Perl to Sort

337

(1)

Using Perl to Sort Alphanumeric Fields

337

(3)

Using Perl to Sort Numeric Fields

340

(4)

Summary

344

(1)

Review Questions

344

(2)

Exercises

346

(1)

Discovery Exercises

347

(1)

Lesson B: Creating an Interactive Web Page

348

(15)

Setting Up a Web Page

348

(1)

Creating Web Pages

349

(2)

CGI Overview

351

(7)

Creating the Dominion Consulting Web Page

358

(3)

Summary

361

(1)

Review Questions

361

(1)

Exercises

362

(1)

Discovery Exercises

362

(1)

Developing Unix Applications in C and C++

363

(54)

Lesson A: C Language Programming

364

(41)

Introducing C Programming

364

(1)

Creating a C Program

365

(1)

C Key Words

365

(2)

The C Library

367

(1)

Program Format

367

(1)

Including Comments

368

(1)

Using the Preprocessor #include Directive

368

(1)

Specifying Data Types

369

(1)

Character Constants

370

(1)

Using Strings

370

(1)

Including Identifiers

371

(1)

Declaring Variables

371

(1)

Understanding the Scope of Variables

372

(1)

Using Math Operators

372

(2)

Generating Formatted Output with printf

374

(3)

Using the if Statement

377

(1)

Using C Loops

378

(2)

Defining Functions

380

(1)

Using Function Arguments

381

(2)

Using Function Return Values

383

(2)

Working with Files in C

385

(2)

Using the Make Utility to Maintain Program Source Files

387

(5)

Debugging Your Program

392

(1)

Creating a C Program to Accept Input

393

(3)

Encoding and Decoding Programs

396

(6)

Summary

402

(1)

Review Questions

402

(1)

Exercises

403

(1)

Discovery Exercises

404

(1)

Lesson B: C++ Programming in a UNIX environment

405

(12)

Introducing C++ Programming

405

(1)

Creating a Simple C++ Program

406

(1)

Creating a C++ Program That Reads a Text File

407

(2)

How C++ Enhances C Functions

409

(2)

Setting Up a Class

411

(2)

Summary

413

(1)

Review Questions

413

(1)

Exercises

414

(1)

Discovery Exercises

415

(2)

The X Window System

417

(102)

Lesson A: Starting and Navigating an X Window Session

418

(18)

What is the X Window System?

418

(1)

X Window Clients and Servers

419

(1)

Window Managers

420

(1)

Using GNOME

420

(1)

Starting the X Window System

421

(1)

Configuring Linux to Automatically Start the X Window System

421

(2)

Interacting with the X Window System

423

(1)

Interacting with Windows

424

(4)

Interacting with the Panel

428

(5)

Summary

433

(1)

Review Questions

433

(2)

Exercises

435

(1)

Discovery Exercises

435

(1)

Lesson B: Running Applications and Customizing the Desktop

436

(41)

Running Built-in Applications

436

(10)

Using the Calendar Application

446

(7)

Using the Spreadsheet Application

453

(8)

Configuring the Desktop

461

(1)

Changing the Background and Screen Saver

461

(5)

Configuring the Panel

466

(4)

Adding Programs to the Main Menu

470

(2)

Summary

472

(1)

Command Summary

472

(1)

Review Questions

473

(1)

Exercises

474

(1)

Discovery Exercises

475

(2)

appendix A

How to Access a Unix/Linux Operating System

477

(16)

Using a Dial-Up Connection to Access a Remote System

478

(1)

Setting Up a Dial-Up Network Connection in Windows 95 and 98

478

(1)

Configuring Your System for Dial-up Networking

479

(3)

Configuring Your System's Network Connection

482

(3)

Installing Dial-up Networking

485

(2)

Setting Up a New Connection

487

(3)

Using Telnet to Access a Remote System

490

(1)

Information You Need

491

(2)

appendix B

Syntax Guide to Unix Commands

493

(14)

appendix C

How to Install Red Hat Linux 6.0

507

(12)

Gather Information About Your Computer Hardware and Network

508

(1)

Preparing the Linux Boot Disk

509

(1)

Preparing the Hard Disk

510

(1)

Installing Red Hat Linux 6.0

511

(8)

glossary

519

(10)

index

529

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