Index

/etc/motd

The User Acts

/etc/rc

cp Like a Monk, cp Like a Monk

/etc/termcap

%

kernel

running messages: Run-time Messages
starting messages: Starting Messages

account

The User Acts

AT&T

Unix History, Unix History, Unix History

background

Power to the Computer, Power to the Computer, Power to the Computer, Takes Over, Takes Over

bash

Unix Commands, Working with Unix, What Really Happens?, What Really Happens?, Command-Line Editing, Command and File Completion, Command and File Completion, Unix Concepts, bash Customization, Environment Variables

bg

The Basics, The Basics

BIOS

Bourne, Steve R.

Unix Commands

Boyle, Brian

Introduction

BSD

Unix History, History

C

C Mode

cat

A Typical Unix Command, A Typical Unix Command, Solution: The Pipe, bold

cd

The Current Directory and

Channon, David

Acknowledgements

chmod

bold

cmp

bold

cmuscheme

Scheme Mode

Codogno, Maurizio

Acknowledgements

command line editing

seeshell, editing

configuration;tex2html_html_special_mark_quot; files

bash Customization

cp

Moving Information, Moving Information, (, ), Pruning Back with rm

df

bold

diff

bold

Digital Equipment Corporation

directory

creating: (, )
creating: (, )
current: The Current Directory and , The Current Directory and
current: The Current Directory and , The Current Directory and
home: The Current Directory and
parent: The Current Directory and
permissions: Operating on Files
present: The Current Directory and
root: Storing Information
working: The Current Directory and

DOS

Operating Systems, Takes Over, Takes Over, Leaving the Computer, Starting Messages, Starting Messages

du

bold

echo

bold

ed

A Quick History of , (, )

elm

Reading Mail

emacs

X Programs, (, ), Sending Mail, Introduction to Vi

interrupting: The Meta Key
kill: CuttingPasting, Killing and
mark: CuttingPasting, Killing and
point: CuttingPasting, Killing and
region: CuttingPasting, Killing and
searching: (, )
searching: (, )
yanking: CuttingPasting, Killing and

end-of-file

A Typical Unix Command

env

bold

environment

environment variables

error

bad 386/387 coupling: Starting Messages

ex

A Quick History of

fg

The Basics, The Basics

file

Moving Information

permissions: (, )
permissions: (, )
privileges: seefile, permissions

file system

filters

Fogel, Karl

foreground

fork

FPU

Free Software Foundation

How to Read This , History, History, Unix Commands

fvwm

Focus, Moving Windows, (, )

General Electric

History, Commercial Software in

General Public License

getty

Takes Over

GNU Emacs

Who Should Read This , Command-Line Editing

GNU Project

How to Read This , History, Information Commands

gnuchess

When Is There a

Gods

Unix: Moving Information

Greenfield, Larry

account names for: The User Acts

grep

bold

head

Solution: The Pipe, bold

help

on-line: (, )
on-line: (, )

icon;tex2html_html_special_mark_quot; manager

Iconization and Maximization

IEEE

What You Should Have , Unix History, History, Starting to Use Your , Power to the Computer

init

Takes Over, Takes Over, Takes Over, Takes Over, Takes Over, Takes Over, Takes Over, Takes Over, Takes Over

init files

bash Customization

input redirection

(, )

Intel

interactive shell

Information Commands, Information Commands

ispell

job control

seeshell, job control

jobs

seeshell, jobs

Johnson, Michael K.

What's the Linux Documentation

Joy, Bill

Joy, William

Kernighan, Brian

kill

less

Library General Public License

Commercial Software in

LILO

Power to the Computer, Power to the Computer, Takes Over

lisp

Scheme Mode

load average

System Statistics

login

Starting to Use Your , The User Acts

login shell

Looking at Directories with , Unix Concepts

ls

Lu, H. J.

What You Should Have , Starting to Use Your , The X Window System

Macintosh

mail

Mail Mode, bold, Sending Mail

man

How to Avoid Reading , bold

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Unix History, History, What is The X

master boot record

Power to the Computer

Microsoft Windows

Commercial Software in , The X Window System

mkdir

(, )

more

Solution: The Pipe, Solution: The Pipe, bold

Motif

Commercial Software in

mount

Starting Messages

MS-DOS

Starting to Use Your , Unix Commands, Shell Startup

command.com: Unix Commands

Multics

mv

Moving Information, Moving Information, (, )

non-interactive;tex2html_html_special_mark_quot; shell

Novell

Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Starting to Use Your , Unix Commands

OS/2

output redirection

(, )

parallel ports

Starting Messages

partition

disk: Starting Messages
root: Starting Messages

password

The User Acts, The User Acts

Peanuts

Trivial Matters

permissions

Operating on Files

pgp

PID

pine

Reading Mail

pipes

(, )

POSIX

The Current Directory and

process

Takes Over, Takes Over

forking: Takes Over

pwd

rc files

bash Customization

Ritchie, Dennis

Unix History, Unix History

rm

Moving Information, Moving Information, (, )

rmdir

Using mkdir to Create

scheme

Scheme Mode

security

seefile, permissions

serial ports

Starting Messages

shell

How to Read This , How to Read This , Unix Commands

alias: bold
comments: Aliasing
completion: (, )
completion: (, )
editing: (, )
editing: (, )
globbing: seeshell, wildcards
job control: The Basics
job control: The Basics
job control: The Basics
job number: The Basics
jobs: The Basics
programming: Unix Commands
prompt: The User Acts, Unix Commands
prompt: The User Acts, Unix Commands
quoting: (, )
quoting: (, )
script: Unix Commands
search path: (, )
search path: (, )
wildcards: (, )
wildcards: (, )

shell scripts

A Typical Unix Command, Solution: The Pipe

sort

source

Startup Files

spell

bold

Stallman, Richard

Specializing Buffers: Modes

standard error

Unix Concepts

standard input

Unix Concepts, Input Redirection

standard output

Unix Concepts, Input Redirection

startx

bold

superuser

What You Should Have

suspended

System V

tail

Solution: The Pipe, bold

TCP/IP

Now

tcsh

What Really Happens?

terminals

termination

What's Unixanyway?, Unix History

Thompson, Ken

Torvalds, Linus

Acknowledgements, Who Should Read This , History, Trivial Matters

English;tex2html_html_special_mark_quot; usage: Starting Messages

touch

bold

twm

Window Managers, Focus, Moving Windows, (, )

University of California, Berkeley

Unix History, History, Introduction to Vi, A Quick History of

Unix System Laboratories

Unix History, History

uptime

bold, System Statistics

VC

seevirtual;tex2html_html_special_mark_quot;consoles

vi

What's Emacs?, (, )

virtual consoles

Virtual Consoles: Being in

VMS

Operating Systems, Operating Systems

vt100

What's the Linux Documentation

w

bold, Reporting a bug

wc

bold

Welsh, Matt

who

bold

wildcards

seeshell, wildcards

Windows NT

Unix Commands

Wirzenius, Lars

What's the Linux Documentation

X Window System

History, Commercial Software in , The User Acts, (, )

X/Open

xclock

XClock

xinit

bold

xterm

bold, Shell Startup, Using Systems by Remote

yes

Zimmerman,;tex2html_html_special_mark_quot; Paul