UNIX For Dummies

John Levine and Margaret Levine Young are the dynamic For Dummies duo with more than 50 books to their credit, including eight editions of The Internet For Dummies.

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