Contents

• Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book
    • What You Should Have Done Before Reading This Book
  • How to Avoid Reading This Book
  • How to Read This Book
  • Documentation
    • Other Books
    • HOWTOs
    • What's the Linux Documentation Project?
  • Operating Systems
• What's Unix, anyway?
  • Unix History
  • History
    • Now
    • Trivial Matters
    • Commercial Software in
• Getting Started
  • Starting to Use Your Computer
    • Power to the Computer
    • Takes Over
    • The User Acts
  • Leaving the Computer
    • Turning the Computer Off
  • Kernel Messages
    • Starting Messages
    • Run-time Messages
• The Unix Shell
  • Unix Commands
    • A Typical Unix Command
  • Helping Yourself
  • Storing Information
    • Looking at Directories with ls
    • The Current Directory and cd
    • Using mkdir to Create Your Own Directories
  • Moving Information
    • cp Like a Monk
    • Pruning Back with rm
    • A Forklift Can Be Very Handy
• The X Window System
  • What is The X Window System?
  • What's This on my Screen?
    • XClock
    • XTerm
  • Window Managers
    • When New Windows are Created
    • Focus
    • Moving Windows
    • Depth
    • Iconization and Maximization
    • Menus
  • Starting and Stopping the X Window System
    • Starting X
    • Exiting X
  • X Programs
    • Geometry
    • Standard Options
• Working with Unix
  • Wildcards
    • What Really Happens?
    • The Question Mark
  • Time Saving with bash
    • Command-Line Editing
    • Command and File Completion
  • The Standard Input and The Standard Output
    • Unix Concepts
    • Output Redirection
    • Input Redirection
    • Solution: The Pipe
  • Multitasking
    • The Basics
    • What Is Really Going On Here?
  • Virtual Consoles: Being in Many Places at Once
• Powerful Little Programs
  • The Power of Unix
  • Operating on Files
  • System Statistics
  • What's in the File?
  • Information Commands
• Editing files with Emacs
  • What's Emacs?
  • Getting Started Quickly in X
  • Editing Many Files at Once
  • Ending an Editing Session
  • The Meta Key
  • Cutting, Pasting, Killing and Yanking
  • Searching and Replacing
  • What's Really Going On Here?
  • Asking Emacs for Help
  • Specializing Buffers: Modes
  • Programming Modes
    • C Mode
    • Scheme Mode
    • Mail Mode
  • Being Even More Efficient
  • Customizing Emacs
  • Finding Out More
• I Gotta Be Me!
  • bash Customization
    • Shell Startup
    • Startup Files
    • Aliasing
    • Environment Variables
  • The X Window System Init Files
    • Twm Configuration
    • Fvwm Configuration
  • Other Init Files
    • The Emacs Init File
    • FTP Defaults
    • Allowing Easy Remote Access to Your Account
    • Mail Forwarding
  • Seeing Some Examples
• Talking to Others
  • Electronic Mail
    • Sending Mail
    • Reading Mail
  • More than Enough News
  • Searching for People
  • Using Systems by Remote
  • Exchanging Files on the Fly
• Funny Commands
  • find, the file searcher
    • Generalities
    • Expressions
    • Options
    • Tests
    • Actions
    • Operators
    • Examples
    • A last word
  • tar, the tape archiver
    • Introduction
    • Main options
    • Modifiers
    • Examples
  • dd, the data duplicator
    • Options
    • Examples
  • sort, the data sorter
    • Introduction
    • Options
    • Examples
• Errors, Mistakes, Bugs, and Other Unpleasantries
  • Avoiding Errors
  • Not Your Fault
    • When Is There a Bug
    • Reporting a bug
• The GNU General Public License
• The GNU Library General Public License
• Introduction to Vi
  • A Quick History of Vi
  • Quick Ed Tutorial
    • Creating a file
    • editing a existing file
    • Line numbers in detail
  • Quick Vi Tutorial
    • Invoking vi
    • Cursor movement commands
    • Deleting text
    • File saving
    • What's next
  • Advanced Vi Tutorial
    • Moving around
    • Modifing Text
    • Copying and Moving sections of text
    • Searching and replacing text
• References
• Index
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