Beginning Unix -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Who Is This Book For? -- What Does This Book Cover? -- How This Book Is Structured -- What Do You Need to Use This Book? -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- Chapter 1: Unix Fundamentals -- Brief History -- Unix Versions -- Operating System Components -- Summary -- Chapter 2: First Steps -- System Startup -- Logging In and Out of Unix -- System Shutdown -- Getting Help with Man Pages -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Understanding Users and Groups -- Account Basics -- Managing Users and Groups -- Managing Accounts and Groups -- Becoming Another User -- User-and Group-Related Commands -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: File System Concepts -- File System Basics -- Paths and Case -- Navigating the File System -- File Types -- Links -- File and Directory Permissions -- Changing Permissions -- Viewing Files -- Creating, Modifying, and Removing Files -- Basic File System Management -- Making File Systems Accessible -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 5: Customize Your Working Environment -- Environment Variables -- Understanding the Path -- Choosing a Shell -- Configuring Your Shell -- Dynamic Shared Library Paths -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: Unix Commands In-Depth -- Anatomy of a Command -- Finding Information about Commands -- Command Modification -- Working with Files and Directories -- Common File Manipulation Commands -- File Ownership and Permissions -- Maintaining File System Quotas -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 7: Editing Files with Vi -- Using Vi -- Moving within a File -- Searching Files -- Exiting and Saving a File -- Editing Files -- Help! -- Versions of Vi -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 8: Advanced Tools -- Regular Expressions and Metacharacters -- Using SFTP and FTP -- More Advanced Commands -- Summary -- Exercises.

Chapter 9: Advanced Unix Commands: Sed and AWK -- Sed -- AWK -- Programming with AWK -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 10: Job Control and Process Management -- What Is a Process? -- Shell Scripts -- What Processes Are Running? -- System Processes -- Process Attributes -- Stopping Processes -- The top Command -- The /proc File System -- SETUID and SETGID -- Shell Job Control -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Running Programs at Specified Times -- System Clock -- Scheduling Commands to Run in the Future -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 12: Security -- The Basics of Good Security -- Securing Your Unix System -- Limiting Administrative Access -- System Administration Preventive Tasks -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 13: Basic Shell Scripting -- Commenting and Documenting Scripts -- Getting Down to It -- Flow Control -- Choosing a Shell for Scripting -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 14: Advanced Shell Scripting -- Advanced Scripting Concepts -- Shell Functions -- Shell Security -- System Administration -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 15: System Logging -- Log Files -- Introducing Syslogd -- Rotating Logs -- Monitoring System Logs -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 16: Unix Networking -- TCP/IP -- Setting Up a Unix System for a TCP/IP Network -- Network Management Tools -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 17: Perl Programming for Unix Automation -- Perl's Advantages -- Useful Perl Commands -- More Perl Code Examples -- Troubleshooting Perl Scripts -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 18: Backup Tools -- Backup Basics -- Backup Commands -- Backup Suites -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 19: Installing Software from Source Code -- Understanding Source Code -- Open Source Licensing -- Finding and Downloading Unix Software -- Building and Installing -- Introducing make, Makefiles, and make Targets -- Installation Techniques for Better Maintenance.

Troubleshooting Build Problems -- Precompiled Software Packages -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 20: Conversion: Unix for Mac OS Users -- A Very Brief History of Mac OS X -- Differences between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X -- Folders Are Directories Too -- Unix and Mac OS X/Mac OS 9 Command and GUI Equivalents -- Differences between Mac OS X and Other Unix Systems -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 21: Conversion: Unix for Windows Users -- Structural Comparison -- Major Administrative Tools Comparisons -- Popular Programs Comparison -- Using Unix within Windows -- Using Windows within Unix -- Summary -- Appendix A: Answers -- Appendix B: Useful Unix Web Sites -- Unix Basics -- Unix History -- Unix Security -- Vendor Sites -- Software Resources -- Unix Magazines -- Unix News and General Information -- Fun Stuff -- Index.