The Design of Unix

• What is Unix?
• Unix: OS or Religion
• A Brief History of Unix
• Flavors of Unix
• The User Interface
• The Kernel
• System Calls
• Applications
• Shells
• Utilities
• File System
• Device-Independent IO

Basic Operations

• Logging On
• Character Mode
• Logging Out
• User Names
• The Root User
• Command Syntax
• Online Manual
• Basic Unix Commands
• Non-essential Unix Commands

File System Basics

• The Unix File System
• Moving around
• Standard Directories
• Absolute and Relative Path Names
• File Names
• File Types
• Directory Listings

Wildcards

• Filename Wild Cards
• Matching One Character
• Matching Many Characters
• Shortcut Characters
• The Shell and Wildcards
• Wildcard Gotchas
• Wildcards and ls
• How the shell Expands Wildcards
• Horrendous Final Example

File Permissions

• Viewing Permissions
• About Directories
• read Permission
• write Permission
• execute Permission
• Changing Permissions
• Relative chmod
• Absolute chmod
• Default Permissions

Working with Files

• Why Create Directories?
• Creating and Removing Directories
• Viewing Files
• Determining File Type
• Copying Files
• Copying and permissions
• Recursive copying
• Moving or Renaming Files
• That pesky slash
• Deleting Files
• Why Use Links
• Symbolic Links

Korn Shell I/O Redirection

• Korn Shell Redirection
• Redirecting STDOUT
• Using noclobber
• Redirecting STDERR
• Using /dev/null
• Redirecting STDIN
• Using Pipes
• Using tee
• Redirection Examples

C Shell I/O Redirection

• C Shell Redirection
• Redirecting STDOUT
• Redirecting STDERR
• Using noclobber
• Using /dev/null
• Redirecting STDIN
• Using Pipes
• Using tee
• Redirection Examples

Executing Programs

• Listing Processes
• Killing Processes
• Listing Available Signals
• Foreground and Background Processes
• Job Control

Using find

• find Syntax
• Finding by Name
• Finding by Type
• Combining Tests
• Finding by Size
• Finding by User or Group
• Finding by Timestamps
• find and xargs
• Using -i with xargs
• find and Symbolic Links
• Other find Options

Filters and Other Useful Commands

• About Filters
• head and tail
• grep
• Regular Expressions
• sort
• Printing Columns
• tr
• Other Filters
• diff

The vi Editor

• About the vi Editor
• vi Overview
• vi Commands
• Navigating
• Adding Text
• Deleting Text
• Replacing Text
• Other Commands
• Cutting and Pasting
• Copying and Pasting
• vi Mode and ex Mode
• Line Ranges
• Search and Replace
• Deleting by Line Range
• Saving Exiting and Abandoning
• Customizing vi
• Advanced vi Features
• Other Unix Editors

Customizing Your Enviroment

• Bourne and C Shells
• Korn Shell
• Other Shells
• What Shell Am I In?
• Shell Comparison
• Command History
• Setting and Using Variables
• Aliases
• Types of Commands
• Search Path
• Fixing Backspace
• Setting the Prompt
• Setting TERM
• Shell Scripts
• Passing Parameters
• Startup Scripts

Networking and Communications

• Real-time Communications
• Mail
• Using Telnet for Remote Login
• ftp
• ftp Tips

File Archives

• Checking Space
• Backup Strategies
• Using tar
• Creating tar Archives
• Viewing tar archives
• Restoring with tar
• Absolute and Relative Paths
• tar and Symbolic Links
• Saving Space
• Using gzip
• Combining tar and gzip
• Working with Windows

X Windows

• X Windows Overview
• X Window Architecture
• X Servers
• X Clients
• Window Managers
• X Startup Sequence
• About X Resources
• Customizing X
• Running Remote X Clients

System Admin for Users

• /etc/passwd
• Groups
• /etc/group
• Adding /usr/sbin to PATH
• File Systems
• The mount Command
• su
• netstat
• nslookup

Hints, Tricks, and Pitfalls

• Unix Calculator
• Displaying a Banner
• Finding the Largest File in a Directory
• Printing a Directory Tree
• A Reminder Service
• A Trashy Idea
• Aliases for ls
• Unix Self-Help Program
• When vi Goes Bad
• Finding Previous Commands

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