Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 10 Minutes
(Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing)
Author(s): John Ray
ISBN: 0672315246
Publication Date: 02/09/99

Introduction

About the Author

Part I—Becoming Familiar with the Linux Environment

Lesson 1—Getting Started

A Little Background

The Login Process

The Logout Process

The UNIX and Linux Command Prompt

Summary

Lesson 2—Documentation and Finding Help

Linux Manual Pages

Built-in Help

Additional Documentation

Other Information Sources

The KDE Help System

Summary

Lesson 3—The Graphical User Interface

X Windows Basics

Using X Windows

Configuring X Windows

Window Managers

Desktop Environments

Summary

Part II—Navigating the Linux File System

Lesson 4—The File System

File System Design

Navigating the File System

Filename Expansion in Supported Shells

Navigating the File System Using KDE

Summary

Lesson 5—Finding Files

Finding Files

Quickly Locating a File or Directory by Name

Finding Files that Contain a Word or Pattern

Using the KDE Find Feature

Summary

Part III—File Utilities

Lesson 6—Working with Files in the Shell

Working with Files and Folders: The Command Line

Summary

Lesson 7—Reading Files

Viewing Files All at Once: Concatenate

Viewing a Page at a Time: more and less

Peeking at Parts of a File: head and tail

Other File Formats

Summary

Lesson 8—Text Editing

Quick and Dirty Editing: vi

The King of Editors: emacs

KDE’s Built-in Editor

Summary

Lesson 9—Other Text and File Utilities

Counting Lines, Words, And Characters: wc

Sorting Information: sort

Chopping Up Files: split

Differences And Patches: diff and patch

Summary

Lesson 10—Compression and Archiving Tools

Compressing Files

Managing Your Disk Usage

Archiving Files: tar

Preparing for Email Transmission: uuencode/uudecode

KDE Archiving Tools

Summary

Part IV—Working with the Shell

Lesson 11—Processes

More Than One Command at a Time

Listing the Running Processes: ps

Killing a Process: kill, kill, kill!

Process Priority: nice and renice

Checking the Processes on Your Computer: top

Scheduling Commands: at and cron

KDE Processes

Summary

Lesson 12—Input and Output

Redirection

Pipes

Summary

Lesson 13—Regular Expressions

Pattern Matching

Matching Single and Multiple Characters: . and *

Using and Negating Ranges in a Regular Expression: [ ] and ^

Matching the Start and End of a Line: ^ (again) and $

Uses for Regular Expressions

Summary

Lesson 14—Basic Shell Scripting

Getting a Lot for a Little: Shell Scripts

Doing It Again and Again: foreach

Doing It After a While: sleep

Doing It Conditionally: while and if

Summary

Part V—Customizing Your Environment

Lesson 15—User Utilities

Changing your password: passwd and yppasswd

Changing Your Shell: chsh

Getting and Changing User Information: finger and chfn

Monitoring Your System: date, uptime, and who

Other Command Line and KDE Utilities

Summary

Lesson 16—Modifying the User Environment

Aliases

Environment Variables

Paths

Users Defaults: The Dot Files

Fixing Broken Terminals: stty

Changing KDE’s Appearance

Summary

Part VI—Commuting with the Outside World

Lesson 17—Printing

Sending a Print Job: lpr

Checking the Status of a Print Job: lpq

Canceling a Print Job: lprm

Pretty Printing: enscript

Summary

Lesson 18—Accessing Network Resources

telnet

rlogin

slogin

rn/trn

ftp

Windows Connectivity: smbclient, smbmount

Web Browsers: Netscape, Lynx, and KDE

Email

Part VII—Advanced Topics

Lesson 19—Permissions

Owners, Groups, and Permissions

Checking the Owner, Group, and Associated Permissions: ls -lg

Changing Permissions: chmod

Changing a File’s Owner: chown

Changing a File’s Group: chgrp

Logging In to a New Group: newgrp

Becoming Another User Temporarily: su

Summary

Lesson 20—Privileged Commands

Single-User Mode

fsck

mount/umount

shutdown/reboot

chown

Summary

Part VIII—Appendix

Appendix A—Selecting Your Linux Distribution

Key Points to Consider

A Few Popular Distributions

So Many to Choose From…

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