is a long time user of the Unix operating system. He has acted as a Unix consultant, courseware developer, and instructor. He is one of the originating authors of Unix Power Tools and the author of Learning the Unix Operating System by O'Reilly.

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• How to Use This Book
• Preface
• Part I: Basic Unix Environment
  
  
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Getting Help
• Part II: Customizing Your Environment
  
  
  • Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Unix Shell
  • Chapter 4: Interacting with Your Environment
  • Chapter 5: Getting the Most out of Terminals, xterm, and X Windows
  • Chapter 6: Your X Environment
• Part III: Working with Files and Directories
  
  
  • Chapter 7: Directory Organization
  • Chapter 8: Directories and Files
  • Chapter 9: Finding Files with find
  • Chapter 10: Linking, Renaming, and Copying Files
  • Chapter 11: Comparing Files
  • Chapter 12: Showing What's in a File
  • Chapter 13: Searching Through Files
  • Chapter 14: Removing Files
  • Chapter 15: Optimizing Disk Space
• Part IV: Basic Editing
  
  
  • Chapter 16: Spell Checking, Word Counting, and Textual Analysis
  • Chapter 17: vi Tips and Tricks
  • Chapter 18: Creating Custom Commands in vi
  • Chapter 19: GNU Emacs
  • Chapter 20: Batch Editing
  • Chapter 21: You Can't Quite Call This Editing
  • Chapter 22: Sorting
• Part V: Processes and the Kernel
  
  
  • Chapter 23: Job Control
  • Chapter 24: Starting, Stopping, and Killing Processes
  • Chapter 25: Delayed Execution
  • Chapter 26: System Performance and Profiling
• Part VI: Scripting
  
  
  • Chapter 27: Shell Interpretation
  • Chapter 28: Saving Time on the Command Line
  • Chapter 29: Custom Commands
  • Chapter 30: The Use of History
  • Chapter 31: Moving Around in a Hurry
  • Chapter 32: Regular Expressions (Pattern Matching)
  • Chapter 33: Wildcards
  • Chapter 34: The sed Stream Editor
  • Chapter 35: Shell Programming for the Uninitiated
  • Chapter 36: Shell Programming for the Initiated
  • Chapter 37: Shell Script Debugging and Gotchas
• Part VII: Extending and Managing Your Environment
  
  
  • Chapter 38: Backing Up Files
  • Chapter 39: Creating and Reading Archives
  • Chapter 40: Software Installation
  • Chapter 41: Perl
  • Chapter 42: Python
• Part VIII: Communication and Connectivity
  
  
  • Chapter 43: Redirecting Input and Output
  • Chapter 44: Devices
  • Chapter 45: Printing
  • Chapter 46: Connectivity
  • Chapter 47: Connecting to MS Windows
• Part IX: Security
  
  
  • Chapter 48: Security Basics
  • Chapter 49: Root, Group, and User Management
  • Chapter 50: File Security, Ownership, and Sharing
  • Chapter 51: SSH
• Glossary
• Colophon