UNIX for Application Developers

ISBN: 0-07-031697-X; To Order: 800/352-3566

Introduction to the UNIX Operating System

What Is an Operating System?
Different Machines Use Different Operating Systems
Origins of UNIX
Universities and UNIX
Berkeley Software Distribution
UNIX System V
UNIX Has Many Different Names
Open Software Foundation
UNIX International
Other Standardization Efforts
Components of the UNIX Operating System
Is It a Command or a Utility?
Features of the UNIX Operating System

Getting Started

Logging in and Getting a Shell Started
UNIX Command Interpretation
General UNIX Command Syntax for the Shell
Multiple Command Execution
Long Command Lines
Changing Your Prompt
Who Else Is Logged On?
What Time Is It? What Day Is It?
Changing Your Password
Logging Out by Telling the Shell You're Done

User-to-User Communication

Interactive User-to-User Communication
write
The Berkeley talk Command
Keeping Someone from Writing to You
mesg
Noninteractive User-to-User Communication
Sending Mail
Receiving Mail
The mailx Command
Administrator-to-User Communication
news
wall
Who Else is Logged on and Can I Write to Them?

Editing: Creating and Changing Text Files

How an Editor Uses the Computer
Filenames
The AT&T Line Editor: ed
The Restricted Editor: red
The Berkeley Line Editor: ex
The Novice Editor: edit
The Berkeley Full Screen Editor: vi
Creating a New File/Changing an Existing File
Leaving vi
Modes of Operation
Cursor Movement
Scrolling Through the File
Inserting Text
Deleting Text
Undoing Changes
Replacing Text and Substituting Text
Deleting or Changing Words
Copying and Moving Text
Miscellaneous ex Commands
A 'Read-Only' Version of vi: view
A Non-Modal UNIX Editor: emacs

Useful Utilities

Different UNIX Systems -- Different UNIX Commands
Listing Filenames
Checking for Spelling Errors in a Text File
Displaying a Year-Long Calendar
Reminding Yourself of Important Dates
Displaying Large Block Letters
What Time Is It? What Day Is It? -- Again
A Basic Calculator
Automatically Executing Commands When You Log in
Getting Help

Directories and Files

The UNIX File System
Standard Directories
Your Home Directory/Current Working Directory
Print Working Directory Name
Pathnames
Changing Your Current Working Directory
Listing Filenames -- Again
Making New Directories
Removing Old Directories
Determining What is in a File
Displaying the Contents of a File
Displaying the Contents of a File -- One Page at a Time
Displaying the Tail End of a File
Displaying the Beginning of a File
Copying One File to Another
Moving or Renaming One File into Another
Aliasing or Giving a Second Name to a File
How cp, mv, and ln Are Alike and How They Are Different
Removing Files
Using Pathnames

Access Permission

Users and Groups
Who Are You and What Group Are You in?
Listing Filenames -- Again
Access Permissions
Changing File Modes or Access Permission
Other File Modes
Setting Default File and Directory Creation Permissions
Changing the Owner of a File
Changing the Group of a File
Temporarily Changing Your User Id
Temporarily Changing Your Group Id

Using the Shell

Command Interpreter Concepts
Command Interpretation and Execution
How Does the Shell Find the Commands?
Filename Expansion Metacharacters
Input-Output Redirection Metacharacters
Pipes and Filters
Being a Responsible UNIX User

Manipulating Text Files

Counting Lines, Words, and Characters in a File
Translating Characters from One Set to Another
Cutting a File Up into Pieces
Pasting Files Back Together
Joining Files Together Based on Common Fields
Adding Line Numbers to a File
Preparing a File for Printing
Dumping a File -- Octal, Decimal, Hexadecimal
Splitting Large Files into a Number of Smaller Files
Updating the Last Modification Time of a File

Sorting Text Files

Sorting a Text File

Noninteractive Text Editing

Editing a File with sed

Regular Expressions Using grep and awk

Searching through Files
Regular Expressions
grep
grep Options
awk

Bourne/Korn Shell Programming

Shell Programming
Shell Scripts
echo Command
Shell Variables
Script Input
Shell Loops
test Command
Clearing the Screen
if Command
case Command
sleep Command
Filling Out the Script

C Shell Programming

Shell Programming
Shell Scripts
echo Command
Shell Variables
Script Input
Shell Loops
Expressions
Clearing the Screen
if Command
switch Command
sleep Command
Filling Out the Script

Working with a Printer

Sending a File to the Printer.
Determining the Status of a Print Job
Canceling a Print Job

The find Command

Finding Files
Where to Start Looking for a File
What to Do When a File is Found
Finding Files by Name or by Type
Combining and Negating Conditions -- And/Or/Not
Finding Files by Owner, Group, or Permissions
Using Last Access, Modification, or Status Change Time
Finding Files by Size
Executing UNIX Commands to Process Found Files

Advanced Editing with vi

Syntax for the vi Command
Crash Recovery
Cursor Movement Revisited
Indenting and Shifting Lines of Text
Deleting, Changing, and Yanking Revisited
Repeating the Last Change
Joining Lines
Displaying the Current Line Number
Named Buffers
Markers
Global Search and Replace
Inserting and Appending Revisited
Editing Multiple Files
Filtering Text through UNIX Commands
Customizing the Operation of the Editor

Controlling the Execution of UNIX Commands

The Shell and Background Processing
Waiting for Background Processes
Watching the Status of an Executing Command
Terminating a Command
Running a Command at a Lower Priority
Running a Command Immune from Logouts

Executing Commands at a Later Date and Time

Running Commands Once When the System Is Slow
Running Commands Once at a Specific Time
Running Commands Repetitively at Specific Times

Archiving Utilities (Optional)

Archive Concepts
The Tape Archiving Utility: tar
Copying Files in from and Out to an Archive: cpio
The Object Code Archiving Utility: ar

Source Code Control System (Optional)

Terminology of SCCS
Creating and Administering the SCCS Archive
Retrieving a Delta from an SCCS Archive
Getting a File with the Intent to Submit a Delta
Changing Your Mind with the unget Command
Submitting a New Version of an SCCS File with delta
Other SCCS Files
Id Keywords
Other SCCS Commands

Text Processing with nroff (Optional)

Word Processing under UNIX
What Is Text Processing?
Using nroff to Format Documents
Filling and Adjusting
Page Layout Commands
Indenting and Paragraph Styling
Controlling Page Spacing
Controlling the Filling and Adjusting of Text
Special Formatting Commands
Titles
Macros
Macro Packages
Uses for nroff

Programming in the UNIX Environment (Optional)

Programming Facilities
Programming Philosophy
Sample C Program
C Programming Environment

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