
- 320 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Introducing UNIX and Linux
About this book
An introductory, tutorial style text covering the basics of UNIX and Linux for the complete beginner, this is a comprehensive and well written introduction to these operating systems. It assumes no prior knowledge of programming nor any experience of using computers. UNIX and Linux are two of the most commonly used operating systems within the educational and corporate worlds and are growing in popularity. This book covers all the basic constructs and commands of UNIX and follows the 1993 POSIX.2 International Standard.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 The Computing Environment
- Chapter 2 UNIX and Linux Design and Organisation
- Chapter 3 Installing Linux
- Chapter 4 Getting started
- Chapter 5 Files
- Chapter 6 Processes and devices
- Chapter 7 Introduction to shells
- Chapter 8 More on shells
- Chapter 9 Advanced shell programming
- Chapter 10 Regular expressions and filters
- Chapter 11 Awk
- Chapter 12 Perl
- Chapter 13 Maintaining your Linux OS
- Chapter 14 Other Issues
- Answers to problems
- Appendix – summary of utilities
- Index