UNIX For Dummies, 5th Edition -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Authors' Note -- Part I: Before the Beginning -- Chapter 1: Log Me In, UNIX! -- Turning Your Computer On and Off -- Hey, UNIX! I Want to Log In -- Logging In: U( NIX) Can Call Me Al -- Password Smarts -- Ciao, UNIX! -- Chapter 2: What Is UNIX, Anyway? -- Why Do We Ask Such Dumb Questions? -- How Can You Tell? -- Cracking the Shell -- Are Any Good Programs On? -- Finally! You're Ready to Work -- Chapter 3: A Few Lines on Linux -- Out of the Frozen North -- What's Old, What's New -- Where's Linux? -- A Whole Lotta Kinds of Linux -- Part II: Some Basic Stuff -- Chapter 4: Opening Windows on UNIX -- UNIX Gets All GUI -- Stupid Window Manager Tricks -- CDE: A Desktop for All Seasons -- What's the " K" Stand For? -- You Mean the Little Guys with the Hats? -- Terminal Happenings -- Chapter 5: Files for Fun and Profit -- What Files Do You Have? -- Roger, I Copy -- Nuking Files Back to the Stone Age -- What's in a Name ( Reprise) -- Looking at the Guts of a File -- Is This a Printout I See Before Me? -- Who Goes There? -- Chapter 6: Directories for Fun and Profit -- Good News for Windows Users -- What Is a Directory? -- Divide and Conquer -- There's No Place Like Home -- Putting Your Ducks in a Row -- Putting Your Ducks on the Web -- A Map of UNIX -- Chapter 7: The Shell Game -- This Output Is Going to Havana: Redirection -- Gurgle, Gurgle: Running Data through Pipes -- Wild and Crazy Wildcards -- History Repeats Itself -- Do I Have to Type the Same Things Every Time I Log In? -- Terminal Options -- Chapter 8: Where's That File?.

The Search Is On -- What to Do with Files after You Find Them -- Searching Is Slow! -- A File by Any Other Name -- Chapter 9: Printing ( The Gutenberg Thing) -- Printing Stuff: Daemons at Work -- Finding Your Printout -- " Help! I've Printed, and It Won't Shut Up!" -- Prettying Up Your Printouts -- Troff, Nroff, Groff! -- Printing for the PostScript-Challenged -- Part III: Getting Things Done -- Chapter 10: Writing Deathless Prose -- UNIX Has Its Way with Words -- Shy vi, the Princess of Text Editors -- A Novel Concept in Editing: emacs Makes Sense -- A Peek at pico -- Talk to Mr. ed -- Chapter 11: Umpteen Useful UNIX Utilities -- Comparing Apples and Oranges -- Assorted Files -- Time Is Money - Steal Some Today! -- Squashing Your Files -- What's in That File? -- Chapter 12: Installing Software Can Be Tricky -- The Software Stork -- You Too Can Be a Script Writer -- Borrowing Other People's Programs -- Stealing Software from the Network -- Real Software Installation -- Chapter 13: Juggling a Bunch of Programs -- So What Is a Process, Anyway? -- Any Processes in the House? -- Starting Background Processes -- The Magic of Job Control -- Chapter 14: Taming Linux -- Congratulations! You're a System Administrator! -- A Pride of Linuxes -- " I Need Help!" -- Part IV: UNIX and the Net -- Chapter 15: Your Computer Is Not Alone -- You Don't Need to Be In Who's Who to Know What's What -- Finding Out Who's on Your Computer -- Finding Out Who's on Other Computers -- Chatting with Other People on Your Computer -- Getting On the Net -- Chapter 16: Across a Crowded Network -- On a Computer Far, Far Away -- Telnet It Like It Is -- 3270: The Attack of the IBM Terminals -- ssh: The Lazy Man's Remote Login -- scp: Blatting Files across the Network -- NFS: You'll Never Find Your Stuff -- The UNIX/Windows Accords -- Chapter 17: Automating Your Office Gossip.

What You Need in Order to Use Local E-Mail -- Addressing the Mail -- Sending Stuff Other Than Text -- Exchanging Gossip by Using Pine -- What You Need in Order to Use Remote E-Mail -- Mail Bonding with Mozilla -- Kool! It's KMail -- E-Mail with Evolution -- Chapter 18: Web Surfing for UNIX Users -- What's a Browser? -- Browsing with Pictures: Mozilla and Konqueror -- Surfing with Your Browser -- Windows on the World -- My Favorite Things -- Filling In Forms -- What Should I Look At? -- Chapter 19: Grabbing Files from the Net -- You're a Copying Machine -- Files with Finesse -- No Names, Please -- Mouse-Centric Approaches to FTP -- Great Stuff on FTP -- Chapter 20: Now Serving the Internet -- The Internet, at Your Service -- Serving Yourself -- Getting Served -- Web Servers Galore -- Daemons Run Amok -- A Few Tips for Webmasters -- Part V: Help! -- Chapter 21: Disaster Relief -- " My Computer Won't Turn On" -- " My Mouse Is Acting Glitchy" -- " The Network Is Gone" -- " These Aren't My Files!" -- Wrecked X -- " It's Not Listening!" -- " I Give Up" -- Chapter 22: The Case of the Missing Files -- How You Clobber Files -- Ways to Try to Get Files Back -- Three Ways Not to Lose Files -- Chapter 23: Some Programs Just Won't Die -- Why Killing Is Sometimes Justified -- What Process? ( Reprise) -- Fifty Ways to Kill Your Process -- Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap -- When X Goes Bad -- Chapter 24: " My Computer Hates Me" -- Part VI: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 25: Ten Common Mistakes -- Believing That It Will Be Easy -- Mistyping Commands -- To Press Enter, or Not to Press Enter -- Working in the Wrong Directory -- Not Keeping Backup Copies -- Not Keeping Files Organized -- Turning Off Your Computer -- Writing Your Password on a Sticky Note -- Sending Angry Electronic Mail ( Flaming) -- Chapter 26: Ten Times More Information Than You Want about UNIX.

Let's Hear It from the man -- Scanning the Networks -- Other Sources of Information -- Index.