Your UNIX/Linux: The Ultimate Guide, 3rd Edition

Your UNIX/Linux: The Ultimate Guide, written with both users and programmers in mind, is the ultimate UNIX/Linux text. Both pedagogical tool and exhaustive reference, it is well-suited to any course that includes UNIX or Linux. A strong pedagogical framework sets it apart from similar texts and allows beginning students to gain a firm grasp of fundamental concepts, while chapters on advanced topics inspire the more experienced reader to move beyond the basics. Nearly a thousand exercises and self-test questions provide a way for students to test and reinforce their understanding of the material.

Table of Contents

PART I UNIX for the User
Chapter 1 Introducing UNIX
Chapter 2 Becoming Familiar with UNIX Commands
Chapter 3 The File System
Chapter 4 File Attributes
Chapter 5 The vi/vim Editor
Chapter 6 The Shell
Chapter 7 The Process
Chapter 8 The Shell—Customizing the Environment
Chapter 9 Simple Filters
Chapter 10 Filters Using Regular Expressions—grep and sed
Chapter 11 Networking Tools

PART II UNIX for the Programmer
Chapter 12 Filtering and Programming with awk
Chapter 13 Shell Programming
Chapter 14 perl—The Master Manipulator
Chapter 15 Introducing C
Chapter 16 Program Development Tools
Chapter 17 Systems Programming I—Files
Chapter 18 Systems Programming II—Process Control

PART III System Administration
Chapter 19 System Administration

Appendix A The C Shell—Programming Constructs
Appendix B The Korn and Bash Shells—Exclusive Programming Constructs
Appendix C The GNU emacs Editor
Appendix D vi/vim Command Reference
Appendix E The Regular Expression Superset
Appendix F The HOWTO
Appendix G The ASCII Character Set
Appendix H Glossary
Appendix I Solutions to Self-Test Questions