Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1. Getting Started Working in the Unix Environment Syntax of Unix Command Lines Types of Commands The Unresponsive Terminal Chapter 2. Using Window Systems Introduction to Windowing Starting X Running Programs Working with a Mouse Working with Windows Other Window Manager Features Unresponsive Windows Other X Window Programs Quitting Chapter 3. Using Your Unix Account The Unix Filesystem Looking Inside Files with less Protecting and Sharing Files Graphical Filesystem Browsers Completing File and Directory Names Changing Your Password Customizing Your Account Chapter 4. File Management File and Directory Names File and Directory Wildcards Creating and Editing Files Managing Your Files Printing Files Chapter 5. Redirecting I/O Standard Input and Standard Output Pipes and Filters Chapter 6. Using the Internet and Other Networks Remote Logins Windows from Other Computers Lynx, a Text-based Web Browser Transferring Files Electronic Mail Usenet News Interactive Chat Chapter 7. Multitasking Running a Command in the Background Checking on a Process Cancelling a Process Chapter 8. Where to Go from Here Documentation Shell Aliases and Functions Programming Using Unix on Non-Unix Systems Glossary Index

About the Author

Jerry Peek has used Unix since the early 1980s. He has consulted on Unix and VMS, developed and taught Unix courses, been a staff writer for O'Reilly & Associates, and has worked as a programmer and system administrator. Grace Todino is currently residing in Holland. While working as a technical writer at O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Grace was one of the original authors of the Nutshell Handbooks?, Managing UUCP and Usenet and Using UUCP and Usenet. John Strang now finds himself "a consumer--rather than a producer of Nutshells." He is currently a diagnostic radiologist (MD) at Stanford University. He plans to use his experience as an author at ORA to write his own book on radiology.

Reviews

'Ah, what a lovely little book. My list of classics include: K&R, Pike and Kernighan's The Practice of Programming, their The Unix Programming Environment, The Perl Cookbook and The Awk Programming Language. To that list I can now add the current volume. What more can I say: this is a good buy, especially for anyone approaching Unix/Linux for the first time. Even older hands might find it useful to have a copy, if only to give away. It won't provide all that is needed but it is good starting point. I am convinced that computers are getting uglier by the day. This ugliness stems from a quest for glitz at the expense of simplicity and elegance. Like a breath of fresh air, 'Learning the Unix Operating System' is a reminder that it doesn't need to be that way. ' - Joe McCool, Learning the UNIX Operating System - Cvu, April