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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780070635463 (pb)
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Transcribing agency	CUS
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	005.13
Item number	DAS/U
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Das, Sumitabha
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Unix concepts and applications
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Sumitabha Das
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	4th ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New Delhi :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Tata Mc GRaw Hill ,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2006.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	xviii, 671 p.
Other physical details	ill. ;
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	includes appendix and index
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	CHAPTER 1<br/>1.1 The Operating System 4<br/>1.2 The UNIX Operating System<br/>1.3 Knowing \bur Machine 6<br/>1.4 A Brief Session 7<br/>1.5 How It All Clicked 15<br/>1.6 Linux and GNU 17<br/>1.7 Conclusion 18<br/>Wrap Up 18<br/>Test Your Understanding 19<br/>Flex Your Brain 19<br/>CHAPTER 2<br/>2.1 The UNIX Architecture 22<br/>2.2 Features of UNIX 25<br/>2.3 POSIX and the Single UNIX Specification 27<br/>2.4 Locating Commands 28<br/>2.5 Internal and External Commands 29<br/>2.6 Command Structure 30<br/>2.7 Flexibility of Command Usage 32<br/>2.8 Man Browsing the Manual Pages On-line 33<br/>2.9 Understanding the man Documentation 34<br/>2.10 Further Help with man -k, apropos and whatis 37<br/>2.11 When Things Go Wrong 39<br/>2.12 Conclusion 41<br/>Wrap Up 41<br/>Test Your Understanding 42<br/>Flex Your Brain 43<br/>CHAPTER OTNERAl-PtJRPOSE UTILmES<br/>3.1 cal: The Calendar 45<br/>3.2 date: Displaying the System Date 45<br/>3.3 echo: Displaying a Message 46<br/>3.4 printf: An Alternative to echo 48<br/>3.5 be: The Calculator 49<br/>3.6 script: Recording\bur Session 50<br/>3.7 Email Basics 51<br/>3.8 mailx: The Universal Mailer 52<br/>3.9 passwd: Changing "Vfour Password 55<br/>3.10 who: Who Are the Users.? 57<br/>3.11 unaroe: Knowing \bur Machine's Characteristics 58<br/>3.12 tty: Knowing "Ifour Terminal 59<br/>3.13 stty: Displaying and Setting Terminal Characteristics 59<br/>3.14 Conclusion 61<br/>Wrap Up 61<br/>Test Your Understanding 62<br/>Flex Your Brain 62<br/>CHAPTER 4 THE FILE SYSTEM<br/>4.1 The File 65<br/>4.2 What's in a (File)name.? 67<br/>4.3 The Parent-Child Relationship 67<br/>4.4 The HOME Variable: The Home Directory 68<br/>4.5 pwd: Checking \bur Current Directory 69<br/>4.6 cd: Changing the Current Directory 69<br/>4.7 mkdir: Making Directories 71<br/>4.8 rmdir: Removing Directories 71<br/>4.9 Absolute Pathnames 73<br/>4.10 Relative Pathnames 74<br/>4.11 Is: Listing Directory Contents 75<br/>4.12 The UNIX File System 79<br/>4.13 Conclusion 80<br/>Wrap Up 80<br/>Test Your Understanding 80<br/>Flex Your Brain 81<br/>■»<br/>CHAPTER5<br/>5.1 cat: Displaying and Creating Files 83<br/>5.2 cp: Copying a File 84<br/>5.3 rm: Deleting Files 85<br/>5.4 mv: Renaming Files 87<br/>5.5 more: Paging Output 88<br/>5.6 The Ip Subsystem: Printing a File 91<br/>5.7 file: Knowing the File Types 92<br/>5.8 wc: Counting Lines, Words and Characters 93<br/>5.9 od: Displaying Data in Octal 94<br/>5.10 cmp: Comparing Two Files 95<br/>5.11 coram: What is Common.? 95<br/>5.12 diff: Converting One File to Other 96<br/>5.13 dos2unix and unix2dos: Converting Between DOS and UNIX 97<br/>5.14 Compressing and Archiving Files 98<br/>5.15 gzip and gunzip: Compressing and Decompressing Files 99<br/>5.16 tar: The Archival Program 100<br/>5.17 zip and unzip: Compressing and Archiving Together 102<br/>5.18 Conclusion 103<br/><br/>V7rap Up 103<br/>Test Your Understanding 104<br/>Flex Your Brain 104<br/>CHAPTER 6<br/>6.1 Is -1: Listing File Attributes 106<br/>6.2 The-d Option: Listing Directory Attributes 108<br/>6.3 File Ownership 109<br/>6.4 File Permissions 109<br/><br/>6.5 chmod: Changing File Permissions 110<br/>6.6 Directory Permissions 115<br/>6.7 Changing File Ownership 116<br/>6.8 Conclusion 117<br/>Wrap Up 117<br/>Test Your Understanding 118<br/>Flex Your Brain 119<br/>CHAPTER 7THE.< EDITOR<br/>7.1 vi Basics 121<br/>7.1 Input Mode—Entering and Replacing Text 124<br/>■'<br/>7.3 Saving Text and Quitting—^The ex Mode 128<br/>7.4 Navigation 131<br/>7.5 Editing Text 134<br/>7.6 Undoing Last Editing Instructions (U and U) 137<br/>7.7 Repeating the Last Command (.) 138<br/>7.8 Searching for a Pattern (/ and ?) 138<br/>7.9 Substitution—Search and Replace (;s) 140<br/>7.10 Conclusion 141<br/>Wrap Up 141<br/>Test Your Understanding 142<br/>Flex Your Brain 143<br/>8.1 The Shell's Interpretive Cycle 146<br/>8.2 Shell Offerings 147<br/>8.3 Pattern Matching—^The Wild-cards 147<br/>8.4 Escaping and Quoting 152<br/>8.5 Redirection; The Three Standard Files 154<br/>8.6 /dev/nuU and/dev/tty: Two Special Files 160<br/>8.7 Pipes 161<br/>8.8 tee: Creating a Tee 164<br/>8.9 Command Substitution 165<br/>8.10 Shell Variables 166<br/>8.11 Conclusion 169<br/>Wrap Up 170<br/>Test Your Understanding 170<br/>Flex Your Brain 171<br/>9.1 Process Basics 174<br/>9.2 ps: Process Status 176<br/>9.3 System Processes (-0 or-a) 178<br/>9.4 Mechanism of Process Creation 179<br/>9.5 Internal and External Commands 181<br/>9.6 Process States and Zombies 181<br/>9.7 Running Jobs in Background ,182<br/>9.8 nice: Job Execution with Low Priority 183<br/>9.9 Killing Processes with Signals 184<br/>9.10 Job Control 185<br/>9.11 at and batch: Execute Later 187<br/>9.12 cron: Running Jobs Periodically 188<br/>9.13' time: Timing Processes 190<br/>9.14 Conclusion 190<br/>Wrap Up 190<br/>Test Your Understanding 191<br/>Flex Your Brain 192<br/>jHAmRiP.aiiroMEiNG.iim<br/>10.1 The Shells 194<br/>10.2 Environment Variables 194<br/>10.3 The Common Environment Variables 195<br/>10.4 Aliases (bash and ksh) 199<br/>10.5 Command History (bash and ksh) 200<br/>10.6 In-line Command Editing (bash and ksh) 203<br/>10.7 Miscellaneous Features (bash and ksh) 204<br/>10.8 The Initialization Scripts 205<br/>10.9 Conclusion 207<br/>Wrap Up 208<br/>Test Your Understanding 208<br/>Flex Your Brain 209<br/>11.1 File Systems and Inodes 211<br/>11.2 Hard Links 212<br/>11.3 Symbolic Links and 1 n 215<br/>11.4 The Directory 216<br/>11.5 umask: Default File and Directory Permissions 218<br/>11.6 Modification and Access Times 218<br/>11.7 find: Locating Files 220<br/>11.8 Conclusion 224<br/>Wrap Up 224<br/>Test Your Understanding 225<br/>Flex Your Brain 226<br/>CHAPTER 12 SIMPLE FILTERS<br/>12.1 The Sample Database 228<br/>12.2 pr: Paginating Files 229<br/>12.3 head: Displaying the Beginning of a File 230<br/>12.4 tail: Displaying the End of a File 231<br/>12.5 cut: Slitting a File Vertically 231<br/>12.6 paste: Pasting Files 233<br/>12.7 sort: Ordering a File 234<br/>12.8 uniq: Locate Repeated and Nonrepeated Lines 238<br/>12.9 tr: Translating Characters 239<br/>12.10 An Example: Displaying a Word-count List 241<br/>12.11 Conclusion 242<br/>Wrap Up 242<br/>Test Your Understanding 243<br/>Flex Your Brain 243<br/>-ILTEBS.tJSING BEQULAR EXPRE^IONS^rep^.wl<br/>13.1 grep: Searching for a Pattern 246<br/>13.2 Basic Regular Expressions (BRE)—^An Introduction 249<br/>13.3 Extended Regular Expressions (ERE) and egrep 254<br/>13.4 sed: The Stream Editor 255<br/>13.5 Line Addressing 256<br/>13.6 Using Multiple Instructions (-E and -F) 257<br/>13.7 Context Addressing 258<br/>13.8 Writing Selected Lines to a File (w) 258<br/>13.9 Text Editing 259<br/>13.10 Substitution (s) 260<br/>13.11 Basic Regular Expressions Revisited 263<br/>13.12 Conclusion 266<br/>Wrap Up 266<br/>Test Your Understanding 267<br/>Flex Your Brain 268<br/><br/>CHAPTER 14<br/>14.1 Shell Scripts 271<br/>14.2 read: Making Scripts Interactive 272<br/>14.3 Using Command Line Arguments 273<br/>14.4 exit and Exit Status of Command 275<br/>14.5 The Logical Operators && and 1 1—Conditional Execution 276<br/>14.6 The i f Conditional 277<br/>14.7 Using test and [] to Evaluate Expressions 278<br/>14.8 The case Conditional 283<br/>14.9 expr: Computation and String Handling 285<br/>14.10 $0: Calling a Script by Different Names 288<br/>14.11 while: Looping 289<br/>14.12 for: Looping with a List 291<br/>14.13 set and shift: Manipulating the Positional Parameters 294<br/>14.14 The Here Document («) 296<br/>14.15 trap: Interrupting a Program 297<br/>14.16 Debugging Shell Scripts with set -x 298<br/>14.17 Sample Validation and Data Entry Scripts 299<br/>14.18 Conclusion 302<br/>W I, d# H! I H<br/>Wrap Up 302<br/>Test Your Understanding 303<br/>Flex Your Brain 303<br/>CHAPTER 15<br/>15.1 root: The System Administrator's Login 306<br/>15.2 The Administrator's Privileges 307<br/>15.3 Maintaining Security 308<br/>15.4 User Management 311<br/>15.5 Startup and Shutdown 313<br/>15.6 Managing Disk Space 315<br/>15.7 Device Files 317<br/>15.8 Handling Floppy Diskettes 319<br/>15.9 cpio: A Backup Program 321<br/>15.10 tar: The "Tape" Archive Program 325<br/>15.11 Conclusion 328<br/>Wrap Up 328 '<br/>Test Your Understanding 329<br/>Flex Your Brain 330<br/>^&TER X WINDOW system<br/>16.1 X Basics 334<br/>PART II<br/>CHAPTER 16<br/>16.2 The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) 336<br/>16.3 Starting and Quitting X 338<br/>16.4 The Terminal Emulator 338<br/>16.5 Cut-and-Paste Operations 339<br/>16.6 Running X Clients Remotely 341<br/>16.7 Command Line Options 343<br/>16.8 Some Standard X Clients 344<br/>16.9 The Startup Files 347<br/>16.10 X Resources 348<br/>16.11 Conclusion 349<br/>Wrap Up 349<br/>Test Your Understanding 350<br/>Flex Your Brain 350<br/>CHAPTER 17<br/>17.1 TCP/IP Basics 352<br/>17.2 Resolving IP Addresses 354<br/>17.3 The Applications 355<br/>17.4 ping: Checking the Network 356<br/>17.5 telnet: Remote Login 356<br/>17.6 ftp: File Transfer Protocol 357<br/>17.7 Cryptography Basics 360<br/>17.8 SSH: The Secure Shell 362<br/>17.9 The SSH Tools 366<br/>17.10 The Domain Name System (DNS) 368<br/>17.11 Internet Mail 370<br/>17.12 MIME: Handling Binary Attachments in Mail 372<br/>17.13 The World Wide Web 373<br/>17.14 Multimedia on the Web: MIME Revisited 377<br/>17.15 Conclusion 378<br/>Wrap Up 378<br/>Test Your Understanding 379<br/>Flex Your Brain 380<br/>CHAPTER 18<br/>18.1 Simple awk Filtering 382<br/>18.2 Splitting a Line into Fields 383<br/>18.3 pri ntf: Formatting Output 384<br/>18.4 Variables and Expressions 384<br/>18.5 The Comparison Operators 385<br/>18.6 Number Processing 388<br/>18.7 Variables 388<br/>18.8 The -f Option: Storing awk Programs in a File 388<br/>18.9 The BEGIN and END Sections 389<br/>18.10 Built-in Variables 390<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>perl Preliminaries<br/>The chop Function: Removing the Last Character 403<br/>Variables and Operators 404<br/>The String Handling Functions 405<br/>Specifying Filenames in Command Line 406<br/>: The Default Variable 407<br/>Current Line Number ($.) and the Range Operator (..)<br/>Lists and Arrays 408<br/>for each: Looping Through a List 412<br/>spl i t: Splitting into a List or Array 413<br/>join: Joining a List 415<br/>dec Zbi n. pi: Converting a Decimal Number to Binary 416<br/>grep: Searching an Array for a Pattern 416<br/>Associative Arrays 417<br/>Regular Expressions and Substitution 420<br/>File Handling 423<br/>File Tests 425<br/>Subroutines 426<br/>Conclusion 427<br/>Wrap Up 427<br/>Test Your Understanding 428<br/>Flex Your Brain 429<br/>Operators 431<br/>PPiP<br/>mmm<br/>The ex Mode: Handling Multiple Files 435<br/>Named Buffers: Storing Multiple Text Sections 437<br/>Numbered Buffers': Undoing Multiple Line Deletions 438<br/><br/>20.5 Entering Control Characters (/C/rZ-fc-y) 439<br/>20.6 Searching for a Character 439<br/>20.7 Marking Text 440<br/>20.8 Customizing vi 440<br/>20.9 Conclusion 444<br/><br/>Test Your Understanding 444<br/>Flex Your Brain 445<br/>CHAPTER212<br/>a)VANCED SHELL PROGRAMMING<br/>21.1 Shells and Sub-shells 447<br/>21.2 0 and {}: Sub-shell or Current Shell.? 447<br/>21.3 export: Exporting Shell Variables 448<br/>21.4 Running a Script in the Current Shell: The . Command 449<br/>21.5 let: Computation—a Second Look (Korn and Bash) 450<br/>21.6 Arrays (Korn and Bash) 450<br/>21.7 String Handling (Korn and Bash) 452<br/>21.8 Conditional Parameter Substitution 453<br/>21.9 Merging Streams 455<br/>21.10 Shell Functions 456<br/>21.11 eval: Evaluating Twice 459<br/>21.12 The exec Statement 461<br/>21.13 Conclusion 464<br/>Wrap Up 464<br/>Test Your Understanding 464<br/>Flex Your Brain 465<br/><br/>22.1 Handling Multisource C Applications 466<br/>22.2 A Multisource Application 467<br/>22.3 make: Keeping Programs Up-to-date 471<br/>22.4 ar: Building a Library (Archive) 475<br/>22.5 Static and Shared Libraries 477<br/>22.6 Version Control With SCCS and RCS 478<br/>22.7 An SCCS Session 479<br/>22.8 Activity and History Information 483<br/>22.9 Continuing Editing with SCCS 484<br/>22.10 The Revision Control System (RCS) 486<br/>22.11 Conclusion 490<br/>Wrap Up 490<br/>Test Your Understanding 490<br/>Flex Your Brain 491<br/>23.1 System Call Basics 493<br/>23.2 Opening and Closing a File 495<br/>23.3 Using the I/O Calls 497<br/>23.4 Buffered and Unbuffered I/O 502<br/>23.5 umask: Modifying File Permissions During Creation 503<br/>23.6 Handling Errors 504<br/>23.7 File Sharing 509<br/>23.8 Directory Navigation 512<br/>23.9 Reading a Directory 513<br/>23.10 Modifying Entries in Directory 514<br/>23.11 Reading the Inode: stat 516<br/>23.12 Checking a File's Access Rights 521<br/>23.13 Modifying File Attributes 526<br/>23.14 Conclusion 529<br/>Wrap Up 530<br/>Test Your Understanding 531<br/>Flex Your Brain 532<br/>24.1 Process Abstractions 534<br/>24.2 process.c: Looking Up Some Process Credentials 536<br/>24.3 Creating a Process 537<br/>24.4 _exit and exit: Process Termination 540<br/>24.5 Waiting to Pick Up Child's Exit Status 542<br/>24.6 Process Groups 545<br/>24.7 Zombies and Orphans 545<br/>24.8 exec: The Final Step in Process Creation 546<br/>24.9 she! 1 .c: A Program with a Shell-like Capability 551<br/>24.10 File Descriptor Manipulation 553<br/>24.11 pipe: Inter-process Communication 557<br/>24.12 Signal Handling 560<br/>24.13 signal: Installing a Signal Handler 563<br/>24.14 killprocess.c: The Final Program Using kill 566<br/>24.15 Conclusion 569<br/><br/><br/>Partitions and File Systems 574<br/>The Standard File Systems and Their Types 577<br/>fdisk: Creating Partitions 578<br/>mkfs: Creating a File System 580<br/>Mounting and Unmounting File Systems 580<br/>f sck: File System Checking 583<br/>System Startup and init 585<br/>Shutdown and the sync Operation 589<br/>25.10 Backups 589<br/>25.11 Conclusion 591<br/>Wrap Up 591<br/>Test Your Understanding 592<br/>Flex Your Brain 593<br/>
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