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UNIX for Application Developers

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

Table of Contents

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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?
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Sorting Text Files
• Sorting a Text File
11. Noninteractive Text Editing
• Editing a File with sed
12. Regular Expressions Using grep and awk
• Searching through Files
• Regular Expressions
• grep
• grep Options
• awk
13. 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
14. 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
15. Working with a Printer
• Sending a File to the Printer.
• Determining the Status of a Print Job
• Canceling a Print Job
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. Programming in the UNIX Environment (Optional)
• Programming Facilities
• Programming Philosophy
• Sample C Program
• C Programming Environment

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