A System V Guide to UNIX and XENIX

by Douglas W. Topham

Overview

A System V Guide to UNIX and XENIX takes the novice reader through the features of the UNIX system step-by-step without jargon and assumptions about the reader's technical knowledge found in similar books. With its clear explanations, numerous examles, and straightforward organization, this book appeals to many non-technical people just beginning to work with UNIX, as well as engineers and programmers with prior experience. Anyone who reads this book will learn how to use the features of UNIX, and how to modify and customize those features. It is organized in such a way that it leads the reader from the UNIX basics to the more complex and powerful concepts such as shell-programming and networking. Although the book is written as introduction and reference for the UNIX user, it can very well be used as a textbook in undergraduate computer science or computer engineering courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387970219
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	07/23/1990
Series:	Mechanical Engineering
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
Pages:	733
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

I Fundamentals.- 1 Introduction to UNIX.- 2 Getting Started with UNIX.- 3 The UNIX File System.- 4 Using UNIX Commands.- 5 Communication in UNIX.- II Text Editing.- 6 Introduction to vi.- 7 Making Some Changes.- 8 Changing and Deleting Text.- 9 Finding and Replacing Text.- 10 Moving and Copying within a File.- 11 Working with More Than One File.- 12 Customizing vi.- III Text Processing.- 13 Searching and Sorting.- 14 Programming with awk.- 15 Programming with C.- IV Text-Formatting.- 16 Introduction to mm.- 17 Formatting with mm.- 18 Formatting with nroff and troff.- 19 Formatting with troff.- 20 More on Formatting.- V Shell Programming.- 21 Introduction to the Bourne Shell.- 22 Bourne Shell Processes.- 23 Bourne Shell Variables.- 24 Bourne Shell Program Control.- 25 Introduction to the C Shell.- 26 C Shell Variables.- 27 C Shell Procedures.- VI System Administration.- 28 Basic Information.- 29 File Systems.- 30 Disks and Tapes.- 31 Disk Maintenance.- 32 Startup and Shutdown.- 33 Terminals.- 34 Printers.- 35 System Security.- 36 System Accounting.- VII Network Administration.- 37 Introduction to Networking.- 38 Communication Before Release 3.- 39 Communication After Release 3.- 40 Basic Resource Sharing.- 41 Remote File Sharing Maintenance.- 42 Remote File Sharing Security.- Appendices.- A Summary of Basic Commands and Symbols.- A.1 Basic commands for starting out.- A.2 Working with directories and files.- A.3 Searching: forming regular expressions.- A.4 Setting basic features.- A.5 Working with processes.- A.6 Processing information.- A. 7 Communicating.- B Summary of ed.- B.1 Commands.- B. 2 Special characters for searching.- C Summary of VI and ex Commands.- C.1 Moving the cursor.- C.2 Adding new text.- C.3 Changing text.- C.4 Shifting text.- C.5 Deleting text.- C.6Searching and Replacing.- C.7 Invoking the editor.- C.8 Exiting the editor.- C.9 Moving or copying text.- D Summary of vi Options.- D.1 Toggled options.- D.2 Numbered options.- D.3 String-valued options.- E Summary of Processing Commands.- E.1 Searching with grep.- E.2 Sorting with SOU.- E.3 Programming with awk.- F Summary of Formatting Requests.- G Summary of Formatting Options.- G.1 Modifying mm.- G.2 Modifying nroff.- H Summary of the Bourne Shell.- H.1 Shell variables.- H.2 Standard input, output, and diagnostics.- H.3 Background commands.- H.4 Connecting processes.- H.5 Giving directives to the shell.- H.6 Shell procedures.- H.7 Constructing loops.- H.8 The conditional statement.- H.9 Other shell programming techniques.- I Summary of the C Shell.- I.1 Initialization files.- 1.2 Reinvoking previous commands.- 1.3 Selecting individual arguments.- 1.4 Modifying a command line.- 1.5 Assigning an alias to a command string.- 1.6 The logout file.- 1.7 Assigning string values.- 1.8 Manipulating variables that contain numeric values.- 1.9 Variables reserved by the C shell.- 1.10 File-checking.- 1.11 Forming conditional statements.- 1.12 Forming loops.- 1.13 Other programming techniques.- 1.14 Built-in commands.- J Summary of System Administration.- J.1 Basic commands and files.- J.2 File systems.- J.3 Devices.- J.4 Disk maintenance.- J.5 Startup and shutdown.- J.6 Terminals and printers.- J.6 Terminals and printers.- J.7 System security.- J.8 System accounting.- K Network Administration.- K.1 Communication before Release 3.- K.2 Communication after Release 3.- L termcap and terminfo.- L.1 Terminal features.- L.2 Cursor movement and scrolling.- L.3 Screen editing.- L.4 Functions activated by special keys.- L.5 Video attributes.- L.6 Control directives.- M UNIX versus XENIX.- M.1 Description of XENIX.- M.2 Differences between UNIX and XENIX.- M.3 Features of System V, Release 3.- N Character codes.- N.1 The control characters.- N.2 The extended control characters.

Editorial Reviews

A solid, respectful introduction (it does not begin with the abacus and punched cards). Eschews jargon and assumptions of technical knowledge. Covers such powerful concepts as shell-programming and networking. A welcome addition to the literature. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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