More UNIX for Dummies Book

Introduction

How to Use This Book

Who Are You?

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Welcome Back!

Part II: UNIX Scripts

Part III: Editors and Mail Programs

Part IV: Pointing and Clicking with Motif

Part V: UNIX and the Internet

Icons Used in This Book

What Now?

Write to Us

Part I: Welcome Back!

Chapter 1: We're Ba-a-a-ck!

What's Old, What's New

Let a Hundred Versions Blossom

Some prehistory

You can't tell the players without a scorecard

Good GNUs and bad GNUs

Who -- Us? Leave Well Enough Alone?

Chapter 2: A Short Refresher Course

Typing Practice

Just in Case

Logging In

The Shell Game

What's on File?

Chapter 3: Far Too Many Versions of UNIX and a Few Too Many Shells

The Shell Game

Your basic shell

Korn gold

Bourne again

See shells

How to tell which shell you have

How much difference does all this make?

You Mean, UNIX Isn't Just UNIX?

Old AT&T-ish systems

Newer AT&T-ish systems

BSD-ish systems

How Much Practical Difference Does It Make?

OK, How Do I Tell Which UNIX I Have?

Let's Be Sneaky

Part II: UNIX Scripts

Chapter 4: An Introduction to Scripts

What Is a Script?

Where Do Scripts Live?

Where the shell looks for programs

Look in my bin!

Writing a Script

Running a Script

Shells and Scripts

Tiresome Arguments

What's an argument?

Arguing with scripts

Environmental Impact

Do's and Don'ts

Chapter 5: The Shell Game: Using Shell Variables

What's in a Variable?

Name that variable!

If you use the Bourne or Korn shell or BASH

If you use the C shell

A variable is born

What good are variables?

Killing variables

Variables You Already Have

If you use the Bourne or Korn shell or BASH

Using predefined variables

If you use the Korn shell

If you use the C shell

The C shell's predefined variables

Environment variables

Chapter 6: Fancy Script Commands

Making Smarter Shell Scripts

Return of the program

Sensitivity training: If this, then that

Or else!

Lots of stuff to do

Testing, testing

File, are you there?

Testing command-line arguments

A star is Bourne

Testing variables

Lots of possibilities!

Asking Questions and Getting Answers

Repeating the Same Commands Over Again One More Time

Give me a break!

Time to downshift!

Coming to the for

Would you like to see the menu?

Handling Errors

Testing and Debugging Scripts

Build them a piece at a time

Put in echo statements

Use the built-in tracing

Chapter 7: Setting Things Up Nice

Bourne Again

Everyone's profile

Your own private profile

She Sells C Shells

Miscellaneous Files

Chapter 8: Down by the Old Text Stream

What to Say to sed

Let's Be Selective

Too much to type

We lied

We Don't Need No Stinking grep

Your basic database

In case that wasn't confusing enough

We promise, this one is the worst

Lots of Stupid sed Tricks

Picking out lines by number

Scrambling parts of lines

Picking out multiple kinds of lines

Slicing and dicing

If You're a Glutton for Punishment

Chapter 9: Awk-ward, Ho!

The Theory of Pure Awk

Selecting Stuff

Selecting a coupla things

Check out this example

Transforming Stuff

Summarizing Stuff

More Allegedly Clever Awk Tricks

A List of What You've Learned

Had Enough?

Chapter 10: Mixing It Up

Let's Not Be Needlessly awk-ward

Checking It Out

Checking out, first riff

Sort of checking out

Checking out, the grand denouement

One Last Tedious Awk and Shell Trick

Part III: Editors and Mail Programs

Chapter 11: Oy, Vi!

Starting Up

Cursors -- Foiled Again!

Vi à la Mode

You're in command

Exiting from vi

Navigating Around Your File

What's my line?

Staying in line!

Cruising around the screen

Relatively speaking

Getting a decent character reference

Oops -- Let Me Take that Back

I Know That It's Here Somewhere!

Time to Type

Entering Text at Long Last

It Slices, It Dices

Blow me away

Why can't they just call it "cut and paste"?

Yanking and putting commands

Using Last-Line Mode

Read More Files!

Save More!

Practice safe editing

Write on!

Over and Out

Some Pearls for Vi Power Users

Tag -- you're it

Avoiding shell shock

Getting more mouse power

Two -- two -- two files at once (or three, or n!)

Chapter 12: Have a Big Emacs!

This Is Emacs

Running emacs

Running away from emacs

A Few Key Concepts

I can't believe it's not buffer!

Meta-morphosis

Editing à la mode

How to command emacs

A File Here, a File There

Attention, lazy typists!

Doing two things at one time

Let's split

How can you edit two files at once?

A new name

Fooling with Text

Smooth editing moves

Blowing text away

Oops!

Slicing and Dicing

Moving a line or two

Moving a word or three

On your mark

Copying a line or four

Glomming files together

Wrapping and Indenting

Fill 'er up

How long is yours?

Searching for Mr. Goodtext

Fooling with Directories

Dired consequences

Show me that file

Blow it away

Other file foolishness

Mailing from Emacs

Another Slick Trick

A Listing of Commands

Chapter 13: Climbing Elm

From Tiny Acorns

Bailing Out

What the Elm?

Reading the Elm Leaves

Back to You

About That Message

Sending a New Message

Stash It

Fold me a folder

What's in this folder?

Going Under an Alias

Creating a secret identity

A.k.a.

Now we return to our previous elm screen, already in progress

Attachments

Sending plain ol' text

Sending any ol' file

Help! I got a uuencoded file!

Making Elm Better

Chapter 14: Pining Away

Running Pine

Leaving Pine

Sending Messages

Reading Your Messages

Saving Messages

Looking in a folder

Saving messages as text

Printing Messages

Creating Your Own Address Book

Attaching Files to Messages

Including text in your message

Attaching files

Decoding attached messages

Part IV: Motif

Chapter 15: Lite Motif

Where Did Motif Come From?

I'm Not Just a Server -- I'm Also a Client!

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Policy

How did we manage without this?

Widgets here, widgets there

On the Border Patrol

Switching windows

Moving a window

Resizing a window

Making windows go away

On the menu

More Stupid Window Manager Tricks

The Parade of Motif Widgets

Menus

Too many widgets

Radio buttons

Text boxes

Toggle buttons

Scales or sliders

Option menus

Scrollable lists and scroll bars

Pushbuttons

Chapter 16: Mutant Motif

Configuring Motif: Threat or Menace?

We Hope That You're Resourceful

Call me Ishmael

OK, so don't call me Ishmael

Then how do I change a program's resources?

Resource files -- yuck!

Proving that you're resourceful

Resources and Your Window Manager

Pointer, pointer, who's got the pointer?

Being decorative

Where's that window?

What's on the Menu?

How Many Menus Would a Menu Menu If a Menu Could Menu Menus?

Toggle, Toggle

Part V: UNIX and the Internet

Chapter 17: The Wide World of the Internet

What Is the Internet?

Am I on the Internet Already?

Numbers for Everything

What's in a name?

So who am I?

What's It Good For?

Electronic mail (e-mail)

On-line conversation

Bulletin boards (Usenet)

File retrieval

Menus and hypertext

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 18: Talking to the Outside World

Mail Goes Everywhere!

The Internet

America Online (AOL)

Applelink

AT&T Mail

BITNET

BIX

CompuServe

Delphi

Easylink

FIDONET

GEnie

MCI Mail

Prodigy

Sprintmail (Telemail)

UUCP

X.400: We're from the post office, and we know what you want

In Search of the Elusive E-Mail Address

Fun with fingers

The big finger

Whois Out There on the Net?

A New Way to Get Junk Mail: Electronic Mailing Lists

Getting on and off lists

Joining manual lists

Joining LISTSERV lists

Joining Majordomo lists

Now what?

Etiquette Counts

Bursting into flame

How private is e-mail?

Live Talk Networking

Chapter 19: Turbocharge Your Newsreading

What Is Usenet?

How Do I Read It?

Running Trn

Remember your first time?

After the first time

Choosing Newsgroups to Read

Commanding trn

Picking Up the Threads

Reading the News

File It, Please

When Is an Article Not Really an Article?

Dealing with Articles That Demand a Response

Responding privately by e-mail

Possibly making a fool of yourself

Being Original

Fiddling with Your Newsgroups

Preventing Alzheimer's

Reading the best ones first

Killing Articles That Displease You

What's a kill file?

License to kill

Narrowing your view

Editing the kill file

Undoing death

Using Nn

Get me out of here

Choosing newsgroups

Choosing articles

Reading articles

Mouthing off privately

Mouthing off publicly

Using Tin

Choosing newsgroups

Choosing and reading articles

Getting uuencoded and shar files out of articles

Leaving tin

Chapter 20: Telnetting Around the Net

How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?

Terminal Type Tedium

Escaping from Telnet

Terminals Served Here

Whipping Telnet into Shape

Port, Anyone?

Attack of the IBM Terminals

Come On By, Anytime

Some important libraries

Other libraries

Geography databases

Outer-space databases

Book databases

Ham-radio databases

Gateway systems

Commercial services

Fun and sheer goofiness

Chapter 21: Grabbing Files over the Net

You're a Copying Machine

Getting connected

Getting your file

Getting out

When is a file not a file?

How to foul up your files in FTP

The directory thicket

What's that name again?

Here's a file in your eye

Getting Files Anonymously

Hello, anonymous!

A few anonymous FTP tips

Great Stuff on FTP

A word from those etiquette ladies again

Mirror, mirror, on the net, where are the files I want to get?

The FTP Hit Parade

UUNET

SIMTEL

WUARCHIVE

RTFM

InterNIC

The list of lists

Ask Archie

Telnet Archie

Telling Archie how to behave: The set and show commands

Searching for something interesting

Sub method

Subcase method

Exact method

Regex method

How long do you want to look?

Find it!

After you've found it, or some of it, what is it?

You can't get there from here

Plain ol' Archie

Xarchie

E-mail Archie

Chapter 22: What's in That File?

A Feast of Fancy Files

Text files

Archives and compressed files

Data files

Executable files

Packing It in

Compression classic

It's patently obvious: gzip

ZIP-ing it up

In the Archives

The tar pit

Copy here, copy there

PAX vobiscum

For the Artistically Inclined

I could GIF a . . . .

The eyes have it

A trip to the movies

Let a hundred formats blossom

Chapter 23: Gopher the Gusto

Exploring Gopherspace

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Where Do I Find a Gopher?

Jumping Down a Gopher Hole

It Must Be Around Here Somewhere

Finally, Some Files

A Gopher Cheat Sheet

Telnetting via Gopher

Veronica Saves the Day

Leaving a Trail of Bread Crumbs

High-Class Gopher

Gopher menus

Bookmarks

Indexes

Fetching files

Finding out about Gopher entries

Chatper 24: Stuck to the World Wide Web

The What?

A Day on the Lynx

Coming and going

Anatomy of a page

Skating the Web

Handling long pages

Getting help

Where have I been?

Going right to a URL

Printing or saving good stuff

Fake Web pages

News of the weird

Gopher it

Files via Lynx

Lynx can act like telnet too

Remembering the good parts

Controlling your Lynx

Problems

Using Mosaic

(Don't bother) configuring Mosaic

Starting it up

Leaving

Jumping around the Web

Stop everything!

Changing fonts

Printing, saving, or copying good stuff

Remembering good places

Finding other WWW pages

Searching for info

Gophers on the Web

Files on the Web

Telnetting with Mosaic

How to Swing on the Web

Chapter 25: Dealing with Excess Free Time: Internet Relay Chat

What Is IRC?

Worldwide Gossipmongering

Chatting in Theory and in Practice

Getting Connected

Talking the Talk, Chatting the Chat

What Channels Are on?

Hey, Aren't We Ever Going to Do Some Chatting?

Enough, Already!

Starting Your Own Channel

Private Conversations

It's a Jungle Out There

Index

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