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Tables of Contents for Think Unix
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
1
About This Book
1
6
I Unix Concepts
7
124
Unix Documentation
9
20
Words of Warning
10
1
Reading Man Pages
10
10
Documentation Hide-and-Go-Seek
20
7
Suggested Exercises
27
2
Files and Processes
29
34
Files
30
23
Processes
53
10
Redirection and Pipes
63
16
Redirection
64
5
Pipes
69
10
Networking
79
28
A Broad Overview of Networking
80
10
Talking with Other Machines
90
12
Using Machines Remotely
102
5
vi, Dotfiles, and Regular Expressions
107
24
Surviving vi
109
5
Thriving in vi
114
8
Regular Expressions
122
9
II Shell Concepts
131
66
Muddling Through Shells
133
14
Shell Wars
134
2
Fixing Mistakes
136
4
Job Control
140
7
Variables and Quoting
147
20
Variables
148
10
Practice Problems
158
1
Quoting
158
7
Practice Problems
165
2
Conditional Execution and Loops
167
18
Sequential Execution
168
1
Conditional Execution
169
9
Practice Problems
178
1
Loops
179
4
Practice Problems
183
2
Shell Scripts and More
185
12
Grouping Commands
186
1
Aliases and Functions
187
3
Practice Problems
190
1
Shell Scripts
190
6
Practice Problems
196
1
III X Window System Concepts
197
46
Thinking Like X
199
22
What X Does Differently
200
3
Nuts and Bolts
203
11
Desktop Environments
214
4
Something Useful: xterm
218
2
Suggested Exercises
220
1
Configuring X
221
22
Starting X
222
3
Command-Line Options
225
3
Suggested Exercises
228
1
X Resources
228
7
Suggested Exercises
235
1
Color Names and Numbers
235
2
Fonts
237
1
Listing Fonts
238
2
A Few Final Words
240
3
IV Appendixes
243
24
A Answers to Practice Problems
245
10
B Glossary and References
255
12
Index
267