Introduction.
Does Each Chapter Take an Hour?
What If I Take Longer Than 24 Hours?
Are There Really 24 Hours Worth of Lessons?
How to Use This Book
HOUR 1: What Is This Unix Stuff?
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What Is Unix?
A Brief History of Unix
What's All This About Multiuser Systems?
Cracking Open the Shell
Getting Help
HOUR 2: Getting onto the System and Using the Command Line.
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Beginning Your Session
Seeing What's Going On Around You
HOUR 3: Moving About the File System.
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What a Hierarchical File System Is All About
Directory Separator Characters
The Difference Between Relative and Absolute Filenames
HOUR 4: Listing Files and Managing Disk Usage.
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The ls Command
Special ls Command Flags
Permissions Strings
HOUR 5: Ownership and Permissions.
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Working with File Permissions
HOUR 6: Creating, Moving, Renaming, and Deleting Files and Directories.
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Manipulating the Unix File System
HOUR 7: Looking into Files.
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Looking Inside Files
HOUR 8: Filters, Pipes, and Wildcards!
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Maximizing the Command Line
HOUR 9: Slicing and Dicing Command-Pipe Data.
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The awk Programming System
How to Use cut in Pipes
Inline Editing with sed and tr
HOUR 10: An Introduction to the vi Editor.
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Editing the Unix Way
HOUR 11: Advanced vi Tricks, Tools, and Techniques.
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Advanced Editing with vi
Summary of vi Commands
HOUR 12: An Overview of the emacs Editor.
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The Other Popular Editor: emacs
HOUR 13: Introduction to Command Shells.
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The (Command) Shell Game
HOUR 14: Advanced Shell Interaction.
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Which Shell Is Which?
HOUR 15: Job Control.
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Wrestling with Your Jobs
HOUR 16: Shell Programming Overview.
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Build Your Own Commands
HOUR 17: Advanced Shell Programming.
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Searching a Database of Filenames with mylocate
HOUR 18: Printing in the Unix Environment.
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Making a Printed Copy
HOUR 19: Archives and Backups.
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The tar Tape Archive Utility
Shrinking Your Files with compress
Exploring the Unix Tape Command: cpio
Personal Backup Solutions
Working with Unix Package Managers
HOUR 20: Communicating with Email.
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Interacting with the World
HOUR 21: Using telnet, SSH, and ftp.
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Stepping Beyond Your Own System
HOUR 22: Searching for Information and Files.
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Finding What's Where
HOUR 23: Perl Programming in Unix.
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Flexible and Powerful: Perl
HOUR 24: GNOME and the GUI Environment.
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Tweaking Your Inner GNOME
Working with GNOME Applications
APPENDIX A: Common Unix Questions and Answers.
How do I use find|xargs with filenames that contain spaces?
How do I find large files on my system?
How do I run a program on a schedule?
How do fix file permission problems?
How do I list files that don't match a given pattern?
How do I view lines X-Y in a text file?
How do I add a new directory to my PATH?
How do I recover deleted files?
How can I set my shell to protect me from accidental deletions?
What do the shell errors "arg list too long" and "broken pipe" mean?
Why use ssh instead of telnet? Or sftp instead of ftp?
APPENDIX B: Working with the Apache Web Server.
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Working with a Unix Web Server
Index.
