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Part II—Navigating the UNIX 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
Finding Files That Contain a Word or Pattern
Summary
Part III—File Utilities
Lesson 6—Working with Files on the Shell
Working with Files and Folders: The Command Line
Summary
Lesson 7—Reading Files
Concatenating Files: cat
Viewing a Page at a Time: Pagers
Peeking at Parts of a File
Other File Formats
Summary
Lesson 8—Text Editing
Quick and Dirty Editing: vi
The King of Editors: emacs
Desktop Environment Tools: KDE’s Built-in Editor
Summary
Lesson 9—Text and File Utilities
Counting Lines, Words, and Characters: wc
Sorting Information: sort
Chopping Up Files: split
Comparing and Revising Files: 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
X Windows 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
User Defaults: The Dot Files
Fixing Broken Terminals: stty
Changing KDE’s Appearance
Summary
Part VI—Communicating with the Outside World
Lesson 17—Printing
Sending a Print Job: lpr or lp
Checking the Status of a Print Job: lpq
Canceling a Print Job: lprm
Pretty Printing: enscript
Summary
Lesson 18—Accessing the Network Resources
telnet
rlogin
slogin
rn/trn
ftp
Web Browsers: Netscape and Lynx
Email
Summary
Part VII—Advanced Topics
Lesson 19—Permissions
Owners, Groups, and Permissions
Checking the Owner, Group, and Associated Permissions: ls -l
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
Keeping Your System Administrator Happy
Summary
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