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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818495903321

Autore

Levine John R

Titolo

Unix for dummies / / by John R. Levine and Margaret Levine Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley Pub., c2004

ISBN

1-118-04390-1

0-7645-6864-7

Edizione

[5th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Collana

--For dummies

Altri autori (Persone)

YoungMargaret Levine

Disciplina

005.368/2

Soggetti

Operating systems (Computers)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-360) and index.

Nota di contenuto

UNIX For Dummies, 5th Edition; About the Authors; Dedication; Authors' Acknowledgments; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Authors' Note; Part I: Before the Beginning; Chapter 1: Log Me In, UNIX!; Turning Your Computer On and Off; Hey, UNIX! I Want to Log In; Logging In: U( NIX) Can Call Me Al; Password Smarts; Ciao, UNIX!; Chapter 2: What Is UNIX, Anyway?; Why Do We Ask Such Dumb Questions?; How Can You Tell?; Cracking the Shell

Are Any Good Programs On? Finally! You're Ready to Work; Chapter 3: A Few Lines on Linux; Out of the Frozen North; What's Old, What's New; Where's Linux?; A Whole Lotta Kinds of Linux; Part II: Some Basic Stuff; Chapter 4: Opening Windows on UNIX; UNIX Gets All GUI; Stupid Window Manager Tricks; CDE: A Desktop for All Seasons; What's the " K" Stand For?; You Mean the Little Guys with the Hats?; Terminal Happenings; Chapter 5: Files for Fun and Profit; What Files Do You Have?; Roger, I Copy; Nuking Files Back to the Stone Age; What's in a Name ( Reprise); Looking at the Guts of a File

Is This a Printout I See Before Me? Who Goes There?; Chapter 6: Directories for Fun and Profit; Good News for Windows Users; What Is a Directory?; Divide and Conquer; There's No Place Like Home; Putting Your Ducks in a Row; Putting Your Ducks on the Web; A Map of UNIX; Chapter 7: The Shell Game; This Output Is Going to Havana: Redirection; Gurgle, Gurgle: Running Data through Pipes; Wild and



Crazy Wildcards; History Repeats Itself; Do I Have to Type the Same Things Every Time I Log In?; Terminal Options; Chapter 8: Where's That File?; The Search Is On; What to Do with Files after You Find Them

Searching Is Slow! A File by Any Other Name; Chapter 9: Printing ( The Gutenberg Thing); Printing Stuff: Daemons at Work; Finding Your Printout; " Help! I've Printed, and It Won't Shut Up!"; Prettying Up Your Printouts; Troff, Nroff, Groff!; Printing for the PostScript-Challenged; Part III: Getting Things Done; Chapter 10: Writing Deathless Prose; UNIX Has Its Way with Words; Shy vi, the Princess of Text Editors; A Novel Concept in Editing: emacs Makes Sense; A Peek at pico; Talk to Mr. ed; Chapter 11: Umpteen Useful UNIX Utilities; Comparing Apples and Oranges; Assorted Files

Time Is Money - Steal Some Today! Squashing Your Files; What's in That File?; Chapter 12: Installing Software Can Be Tricky; The Software Stork; You Too Can Be a Script Writer; Borrowing Other People's Programs; Stealing Software from the Network; Real Software Installation; Chapter 13: Juggling a Bunch of Programs; So What Is a Process, Anyway?; Any Processes in the House?; Starting Background Processes; The Magic of Job Control; Chapter 14: Taming Linux; Congratulations! You're a System Administrator!; A Pride of Linuxes; " I Need Help!"; Part IV: UNIX and the Net

Chapter 15: Your Computer Is Not Alone

Sommario/riassunto

UNIX For Dummies has been the standard for beginning UNIX references for nearly ten years, and this latest edition continues that tradition of success This unparalleled resource is updated to cover the latest applications of UNIX technology, including Linux and Mac desktops as well as how UNIX works with Microsoft server software Thorough coverage of how to handle UNIX installation, file management, software, utilities, networks, Internet access, and other basic tasks Aimed at the first-time UNIX desktop user growing accustomed to the ins and outs of the OS, as well as the begin