Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Before the Beginning 7
Chapter 1: Log Me In, UNIX! 9
Chapter 2: What Is UNIX, Anyway? 19
Chapter 3: A Few Lines on Linux 33
Part II: Some Basic Stuff 39
Chapter 4: Opening Windows on UNIX 41
Chapter 5: Files for Fun and Profit 77
Chapter 6: Directories for Fun and Profit 91
Chapter 7: The Shell Game 103
Chapter 8: Where’s That File? 119
Chapter 9: Printing (The Gutenberg Thing) 133
Part III: Getting Things Done 147
Chapter 10: Writing Deathless Prose 149
Chapter 11: Umpteen Useful UNIX Utilities 175
Chapter 12: Installing Software Can Be Tricky 185
Chapter 13: Juggling a Bunch of Programs 199
Chapter 14: Taming Linux 211
Part IV: UNIX and the Net 217
Chapter 15: Your Computer Is Not Alone 219
Chapter 16: Across a Crowded Network 229
Chapter 17: Automating Your Office Gossip 243
Chapter 18: Web Surfing for UNIX Users 263
Chapter 19: Grabbing Files from the Net 279
Chapter 20: Now Serving the Internet 293
Part V: Help! 303
Chapter 21: Disaster Relief 305
Chapter 22: The Case of the Missing Files 311
Chapter 23: Some Programs Just Won’t Die 325
Chapter 24: “My Computer Hates Me” 3 31
Part VI: The Part of Tens 343
Chapter 25: Ten Common Mistakes 345
Chapter 26: Ten Times More Information Than You Want about UNIX 351
Index 361
