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Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours by Taylor, Dave

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Binding
Paperback
Book Title
Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours
Weight
1 lbs
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ISBN
0672328143

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Pearson Education
ISBN-10
0672328143
ISBN-13
9780672328145
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46600528

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
528 Pages
Publication Name
Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 24 h
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Subject
Operating Systems / Unix
Features
Revised
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers
Author
Dave Taylor
Series
Teach Yourself -- Hours Ser.
Format
Perfect

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
29.5 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
7 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number
4
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-902143
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
005.432
Edition Description
Revised edition
Table Of Content
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? Goals for This Hour 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. Goals for This Hour Beginning Your Session Seeing What''s Going On Around You HOUR 3: Moving About the File System. Goals for This Hour 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. Goals for This Hour The ls Command Special ls Command Flags Permissions Strings HOUR 5: Ownership and Permissions. Goals for This Hour Working with File Permissions HOUR 6: Creating, Moving, Renaming, and Deleting Files and Directories. Goals for This Hour Manipulating the Unix File System HOUR 7: Looking into Files. Goals for This Hour Looking Inside Files HOUR 8: Filters, Pipes, and Wildcards! Goals for This Hour Maximizing the Command Line HOUR 9: Slicing and Dicing Command-Pipe Data. Goals for This Hour The awk Programming System How to Use cut in Pipes Inline Editing with sed and tr HOUR 10: An Introduction to the vi Editor. Goals for This Hour Editing the Unix Way HOUR 11: Advanced vi Tricks, Tools, and Techniques. Goals for This Hour Advanced Editing with vi Summary of vi Commands HOUR 12: An Overview of the emacs Editor. Goals for This Hour The Other Popular Editor: emacs HOUR 13: Introduction to Command Shells. Goals for This Hour The (Command) Shell Game HOUR 14: Advanced Shell Interaction. Goals for This Hour Which Shell Is Which? HOUR 15: Job Control. Goals for This Hour Wrestling with Your Jobs HOUR 16: Shell Programming Overview. Goals for This Hour Build Your Own Commands HOUR 17: Advanced Shell Programming. Goals for This Hour Searching a Database of Filenames with mylocate HOUR 18: Printing in the Unix Environment. Goals for This Hour Making a Printed Copy HOUR 19: Archives and Backups. Goals for This Hour 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. Goals for This Hour Interacting with the World HOUR 21: Using telnet, SSH, and ftp. Goals for This Hour Stepping Beyond Your Own System HOUR 22: Searching for Information and Files. Goals for This Hour Finding What''s Where HOUR 23: Perl Programming in Unix. Goals for This Hour Flexible and Powerful: Perl HOUR 24: GNOME and the GUI Environment. Goals for This Hour 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. Goals for This Hour Working with a Unix Web Server Index.
Synopsis
Learn Unix through a series of 24 one-hour lessons that teach you the essentials of Unix from the group up. Learn from straightforward instructions that walk you through the most common Unix tasks. Experience Unix through hands-on tutorials divided in 24 individual lessons so you can learn at your own pace and schedule and gain the fundamental knowledge needed to begin working with Unix and/or Linux. Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition is a tutorial for both beginning users and those with some previous Unix/Linux experience. This book is designed to teach the reader the most common Unix tasks in 24 one-hour lessons. Each lesson presents the topic in a clear, concise manner. The author guides the reader through the basics of maintaining and manipulating a Unix/Linux operating system. The hands-on approach allows the user to work through the exercises and grasp common Unix/Linux concepts. This newest edition of the popular Sams Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours family is updated to match changes to the system, and meet more current learning needs., If you're in need of a tutorial to learn UNIX from the ground up, this is it. Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition will let you experience UNIX through hands-on tutorials divided into 24 one-hour lessons so that you can learn the most common UNIX tasks at your own pace. The author will guide you through the basics of maintaining and manipulating a UNIX/Linux operating system. This hands-on approach will allow you to work through the exercises and grasp common UNIX/Linux concepts, including: Using the Command Line Listing Files and Managing Disk Usage Slicing and Dicing Command Pipe Shell Programming Printing in the UNIX Environment Using telnet, ssh, and ftp Perl Programming in UNIX Gain the fundamental knowledge you need to begin working with UNIX with the help of Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition .
LC Classification Number
QA76.76.063

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