LINUX : the textbook / Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Robert Koretsky and Syed Aqeel Sarwar.

Includes index.

Includes index

Overview of Operating Systems
1 (8)
Introduction
2 (1)
What is an Operating System?
2 (2)
Operating System Services
4 (1)
Character Versus Graphical User Interfaces
4 (1)
Types of Operating Systems
5 (1)
The LINUX Family
6 (3)
Summary
7 (1)
Problems
7 (2)
LINUX History
9 (8)
Introduction
10 (1)
Open Source Background
10 (2)
Linus Torvalds
12 (1)
LINUX Distributions
13 (1)
Kernel History
13 (1)
Popularity of LINUX
14 (1)
Future Developments
14 (1)
Web Resources
14 (3)
Summary
14 (1)
Problems
15 (2)
Getting Started
17 (24)
Introduction
18 (1)
Computer System Hardware
18 (3)
Main/Primary Storage
18 (1)
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
19 (1)
Disk
20 (1)
Bus
20 (1)
I/O Devices
21 (1)
LINUX Software Architecture
21 (4)
Device Driver Layer
21 (1)
The LINUX Kernel
22 (2)
The System Call Interface
24 (1)
Language Libraries
24 (1)
LINUX Shell
24 (1)
Applications
25 (1)
Logging On and Logging Off
25 (4)
Correcting Command Line Typing Mistakes
29 (1)
Some Important System Setups
30 (2)
Some Useful Commands for the Beginner
32 (9)
Changing Your Password
32 (1)
Getting Help
32 (4)
Finding Out Who You Are and What the Name of Your LINUX System Is
36 (1)
Summary
37 (1)
Problems
38 (3)
LINUX Shells
41 (20)
Introduction
42 (1)
Various LINUX Shells
43 (6)
Various Shell Programs
44 (1)
Which Shell Suits Your Needs?
44 (1)
Various Ways to Change Your Shell
45 (3)
Shell Start-up Files and Environment Variables
48 (1)
Some Useful General-Purpose Commands
49 (7)
Creating and Displaying Directories
49 (2)
Displaying Files
51 (1)
Printing Files
51 (1)
Displaying a Calendar
51 (1)
One-Way Real-Time Messaging
52 (1)
Notification of and Permission for Electronic Communication
52 (1)
Creating Pseudonyms for Commands
53 (3)
Displaying System Up Time
56 (1)
Shell Metacharacters
56 (5)
Summary
58 (1)
Problems
59 (2)
Editing Text Files
61 (46)
Introduction
62 (1)
How to Do Short and Simple Edits by Using the pico Editor
63 (6)
Creating the Text of an E-mail Message with the pico Text Editor
63 (1)
How to Start, Save a File, and Exit
64 (2)
General Keystroke Commands and Cursor Movement
66 (2)
Cutting, Pasting, and Searching
68 (1)
Obtaining More Control Using the vi Editor
69 (15)
Shell Script File
70 (2)
How to Start, Save a File, and Exit
72 (1)
The Format of a vi Command and the Modes of Operation
73 (5)
Cursor Movement and Editing Commands
78 (2)
Yank and Put (Copy and Paste) and Substitute (Search and Replace)
80 (3)
Setting the vi Environment
83 (1)
Executing Shell Commands from Within vi
84 (1)
Getting Maximum Control by Using the emacs Editor
84 (11)
DOS Aliases
84 (2)
How to Start, Save a File, and Exit
86 (1)
Cursor Movement and Editing Commands
87 (1)
Keyboard Macros
88 (3)
Cut or Copy and Paste and Search and Replace
91 (4)
How to do Graphical Editing by Using XEmacs
95 (5)
Editing Data Files with XEmacs
95 (2)
XEmacs Menus and Buttons
97 (1)
How to Start, Save a File, and Exit
98 (2)
Command Line Editing
100 (7)
Summary
104 (1)
Problems
104 (3)
Electronic Mail
107 (52)
Introduction
108 (3)
How to Use the LINUX mail Command Effectively
111 (9)
Sending and Reading E-mail with the LINUX mail Command
111 (1)
Sending E-mail with the mail Command
112 (3)
Reading E-mail with mail
115 (2)
Saving Messages in Folders
117 (1)
Replying to and Forwarding Messages and Including Attachments
118 (1)
mail Aliases
119 (1)
elm---A Full-Screen Display E-mail System
120 (11)
Sending a Message in elm
121 (1)
Sending E-mail with elm
121 (1)
Reading E-mail in elm
121 (5)
Forwarding and Replying to an E-mail message in elm
126 (3)
Saving Messages in Folders
129 (1)
elm Aliases
129 (2)
pine---Another Full-Screen Display E-mail System

Sending an E-mail Message by Using pine with an Attachment Created in vi
131 (3)
Sending E-mail with pine
134 (2)
Reading E-mail with pine
136 (1)
Disposing of E-mail in Folders in pine
137 (2)
Using the pine Address Book
139 (4)
A Summary of pine Commands
143 (1)
Graphical E-mail with Kmail
144 (15)
Starting Out with Kmail
145 (2)
Reading E-mail in Kmail
147 (3)
Sending E-mail in Kmail
150 (2)
Simple Filtering of E-mail into Folders
152 (2)
Summary
154 (1)
Problems
155 (4)
Files and File System Structure
159 (38)
Introduction
159 (1)
The LINUX File Concept
160 (1)
Types of Files
160 (3)
Simple/Ordinary File
160 (1)
Directory
161 (1)
Link File
162 (1)
Special File (Device)
162 (1)
Named Pipe (FIFO)
163 (1)
File System Structure
163 (7)
File System Organization
163 (1)
Home and Present Working Directories
164 (1)
Pathnames: Absolute and Relative
164 (1)
Some Standard Directories and Files
165 (5)
Navigating the File Structure
170 (18)
Determining the Absolute Pathname for Your Home Directory
171 (1)
Browsing the File System
172 (4)
Creating Files
176 (1)
Creating and Removing Directories
176 (2)
Manipulating the Directory Stack
178 (5)
Determining File Attributes
183 (4)
Determining the Type of a File's Contents
187 (1)
File Representation and Storage in LINUX
188 (3)
Standard Files and File Descriptors
191 (1)
End of File (eof) Marker
192 (5)
Summary
193 (1)
Problems
194 (3)
File Security
197 (22)
Introduction
198 (1)
Password-Based Protection
198 (1)
Encryption-Based Protection
198 (2)
Protection-Based on Access Permission
200 (1)
Types of Users
200 (1)
Types of File Operations/Access Permissions
200 (1)
Determining and Changing File Access Privileges
201 (10)
Determining File Access Privileges
202 (2)
Changing File Access Privilages
204 (5)
Default File Access Privileges
209 (2)
Special Access Bits
211 (5)
The Set-User-ID (SUID) Bit
211 (2)
The Set-Group-ID (SGID) Bit
213 (1)
The Sticky Bit
214 (2)
File Permissions and Types
216 (3)
Summary
216 (1)
Problems
217 (2)
Basic File Processing
219 (40)
Introduction
220 (1)
Viewing Contents of Text Files
220 (11)
Viewing Complete Files
220 (3)
Viewing Files One Page at a Time
223 (4)
Viewing the Head or Tail of a File
227 (4)
Copying, Moving, and Removing Files
231 (9)
Copying Files
231 (3)
Moving Files
234 (2)
Removing/Deleting Files
236 (2)
Determining File Size
238 (2)
Appending to Files
240 (2)
Combining Files
242 (2)
Comparing Files
244 (5)
Removing Repeated Lines
249 (2)
Printing Files and Controlling Print Jobs
251 (8)
LINUX Mechanism for Printing Files
251 (1)
Printing Files
252 (2)
Finding the Status of a Print Request
254 (1)
Canceling Print Jobs
254 (2)
Summary
256 (1)
Problems
257 (2)
Advanced File Processing
259 (42)
Introduction
260 (1)
Regular Expressions
260 (2)
Compressing Files
262 (6)
The gzip Command
263 (1)
The gunzip Command
264 (1)
The gzexe Command
265 (1)
The zcat Command
266 (1)
The zforce Command
267 (1)
Sorting Files
268 (3)
Searching for Commands and Files
271 (4)
The find Command
272 (2)
The where is Command
274 (1)
The which Command
275 (1)
Searching Files
275 (6)
Cutting and Pasting
281 (5)
Encoding and Decoding
286 (2)
Command History
288 (13)
Summary
297 (1)
Problems
298 (3)
File Sharing
301 (24)
Introduction
302 (1)
Duplicate Shared Files
302 (1)
Common Login for Members of a Team
302 (1)
Setting Appropriate Access Permissions on Shared Files
303 (1)
Common Group for Members of a Team
303 (1)
File Sharing via Links
303 (18)
Hard Links
304 (8)
Drawbacks of Hard Links
312 (2)
Soft/Symbolic Links
314 (5)
Types of Symbolic Links
319 (1)
Pros and Cons of Symbolic Links
319 (2)
Searching for Symbolic Links
321 (4)
Summary
322 (1)
Problems
323 (2)
Redirection and Piping
325 (30)
Introduction
326 (1)
Standard Files
326 (1)
Input Redirection
326 (2)
Output Redirection
328 (2)
Combining Input and Output Redirection
330 (1)
I/O Redirection with File Descriptors
331 (1)
Redirecting Standard Error
332 (1)
Redirecting stdout and stderr in One Command
333 (2)
Redirecting stdin, stdout, and stderr in One Command
335 (2)
Redirecting Without Overwriting File Contents (Appending)
337 (2)
LINUX pipes
339 (4)
Redirection and Piping Combined
343 (2)
Error Redirection in the TC Shell
345 (4)
Recap of I/O and Error Redirection
349 (6)
Summary
351 (1)
Problems
352 (3)
Processes
355 (46)
Introduction
356 (1)
Running Multiple Processes Simultaneously
356 (1)
LINUX Process States
357 (1)
Execution of Shell Commands
357 (5)
Process Attributes
362 (11)
Process and Job Control
373 (20)
Foreground and Background Processes and Related Commands
373 (8)
LINUX Daemons
381 (1)
Sequential and Parallel Execution of Commands
382 (5)
Abnormal Termination of Commands and Processes
387 (5)
Conditional Command Execution
392 (1)
Process Hierarchy in LINUX
393 (8)
Summary
397 (1)
Problems
398 (3)
Networks and Internetworking
401 (48)
Introduction
402 (1)
Computer Networks and Internetworks
402 (1)
The Reasons for Computer Networks and Internetworks
403 (1)
Network Models
404 (2)
The TCP/IP Protocol Suite
406 (8)
TCP and UDP
406 (1)
Routing of Application Data---The Internet Protocol (IP)
407 (2)
Ipv4 Addresses in Dotted Decimal Notation
409 (1)
Symbolic Names
410 (2)
Translating Names to IP Addresses---The Domain Name System
412 (2)
Internet Services and Protocols
414 (1)
The Client-Server Software Model
415 (1)
Application Software
416 (33)
Displaying the Host Name
416 (1)
Displaying List of Users Using Hosts on a Network
417 (2)
Displaying the Status of Hosts on a Network
419 (1)
Testing a Network Connection
420 (2)
Displaying Information About Users
422 (3)
Remote Login
425 (8)
Remote Command Execution
433 (3)
File Transfer
436 (3)
Remote Copy
439 (3)
Interactive Chat
442 (1)
Tracing the Route from One Site to Another Site
443 (2)
Summary
445 (1)
Problems
445 (4)
Introductory Bash Programming
449 (54)
Introduction
450 (1)
Running a Bash Script
450 (1)
Shell Variables and Related Commands
451 (21)
Controlling the Prompt
457 (1)
Variable Declaration
457 (3)
Reading and Writing Shell Variables
460 (4)
Command Substitution
464 (1)
Exporting Environment
465 (3)
Resetting Variables
468 (1)
Creating Read-Only User Defined Variables
469 (1)
Reading from Standard Input
470 (2)
Passing Arguments to Shell Scripts
472 (5)
Comments and Program Headers
477 (1)
Program Control Flow Commands
478 (25)
The if-then-elif-else-fi Statement
478 (10)
The for Statement
488 (2)
The while Statement
490 (3)
The until Statement
493 (1)
The break and continue Commands
494 (1)
The case Statement
495 (5)
Summary
500 (1)
Problems
501 (2)
Advanced Bash Programming
503 (44)
Introduction
504 (1)
Numeric Data Processing
504 (10)
Array Processing
514 (5)
The Here Document
519 (4)
Interrupt (Signal) Processing
523 (4)
The exec Command and File I/O
527 (11)
Execution of a Command without Creating a New Process
528 (2)
File I/O via the exec Command
530 (8)
Functions In Bash
538 (9)
The Reasons for Functions
538 (1)
Function Definition
539 (1)
Function Invocation/Call
539 (1)
Examples of Functions
539 (3)
Debugging Shell Programs
542 (2)
Summary
544 (1)
Problems
545 (2)
Introductory TC Shell Programming
547 (42)
Introduction
548 (1)
Running a TC Shell Script
548 (1)
Shell Variables and Related Commands
549 (14)
Reading and Writing Shell Variables
553 (2)
Command Substitution
555 (1)
Exporting Environment
556 (3)
Resetting Variables
559 (1)
Creating Read-Only User-Defined Variables
560 (1)
Reading from Standard Input
561 (2)
Passing Arguments to Shell Scripts
563 (4)
Comments and Program Headers
567 (1)
Program Control Commands
568 (21)
The if-then-else-endif Statement
568 (9)
The foreach Statement
577 (2)
The while Statement
579 (2)
The break, continue and goto Commands
581 (1)
The switch Statement
582 (4)
Summary
586 (1)
Problems
586 (3)
Advanced TC Shell Programming
589 (20)
Introduction
590 (1)
Numeric Data Processing
590 (2)
Array Processing
592 (6)
The Here Document
598 (2)
Interrupt (Signal) Processing
600 (5)
Debugging Shell Programs
605 (4)
Summary
606 (1)
Problems
607 (2)
File System Backup
609 (16)
Introduction
610 (1)
Archiving and Restoring Files Via tar
610 (12)
Archiving Files
611 (5)
Restoring Archived Files
616 (4)
Copying Directory Hierarchies
620 (2)
Software Distributions in the tar Format
622 (3)
Summary
623 (1)
Problems
623 (2)
LINUX Tools for Software Development
625 (98)
Introduction
626 (1)
Computer Programming Languages
626 (2)
The Compilation Process
628 (1)
The Software Engineering Life Cycle
628 (2)
Program Generation Tools
630 (67)
Generating C Source Files
631 (1)
Indenting C Source Code
631 (3)
Compiling C Programs
634 (5)
Handling Module-Based C Software
639 (13)
Creating, Modifying, and Extracting from Libraries/Archives
652 (8)
Version Control
660 (37)
Static Analysis Tools
697 (7)
Profiling C Source Code
698 (6)
Dynamic Analysis Tools
704 (19)
Source Code Debugging
704 (13)
Run-Time Performance
717 (2)
Summary
719 (1)
Problems
719 (4)
Xfree 86 and the LINUX GUI
723
Introduction
724
The Basics of Xfree86
725
Comparisons and Advantages
725
The Key Components of Interactivity---Events and Requests
727
The Role of a Window Manager in the User Interface and fvwm
729
Customizing Xfree86 and fvwm
734
The GNOME Desktop Manager
742
Logging In and Out and the Appearance of the GNOME Desktop
743
The GNOME Panel
744
Customizing the Panel
747
GnoRPM Installation of New Packages
751
The Sawfish Window Manager
755
The GNOME Control Center
760
File Management with the GNOME File Manager
761
The KDE Desktop Manager
763
Logging In and Out
764
The KDE Panel
766
New Packages Installation
771
The K Window Manager
775
The KDE Control Center
778
File Management with kfm
780
Internet Resources
782
Summary
783
Problems
784
Appendix A: LINUX Installation A-1
Appendix B: Command Dictionary A-13
Glossary G-1
Index l-1

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