- Copyright
- About the Authors
- We Want to Hear from You!
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Quick Review of the Basics
- Some Basic Commands
- Working with Files
- Working with Directories
- The Home Directory and Pathnames
- Displaying Your Working Directory: The pwd Command
- Changing Directories: The cd Command
- More on the ls Command
- Creating a Directory: The mkdir Command
- Copying a File from One Directory to Another
- Moving Files Between Directories
- Linking Files: The ln Command
- Removing a Directory: The rmdir Command
- Filename Substitution
- Standard Input/Output and I/O Redirection
- Pipes
- Standard Error
- More on Commands
- Command Summary
- Exercises
- 3. What Is the Shell?
- 4. Tools of the Trade
- Regular Expressions
- Matching Any Character: The Period (.)
- Matching the Beginning of the Line: The Caret (^)
- Matching the End of the Line: The Dollar Sign ($)
- Matching a Choice of Characters: The [...] Construct
- Matching Zero or More Characters: The Asterisk (*)
- Matching a Precise Number of Characters: {...}
- Saving Matched Characters: (...)
- cut
- paste
- sed
- tr
- grep
- sort
- uniq
- Exercises
- Regular Expressions
- 5. And Away We Go
- 6. Can I Quote You on That?
- 7. Passing Arguments
- 8. Decisions, Decisions
- 9. 'Round and 'Round She Goes
- 10. Reading and Printing Data
- 11. Your Environment
- 12. More on Parameters
- 13. Loose Ends
- 14. Rolo Revisited
- 15. Interactive and Nonstandard Shell Features
- A. Shell Summary
- Startup
- Commands
- Comments
- Parameters and Variables
- Command Re-entry
- Quoting
- Filename Substitution
- I/O Redirection
- Exported Variables and Subshell Execution
- Functions
- Job Control
- Command Summary
- The : Command
- The . Command
- The alias Command
- The bg Command
- The break Command
- The case Command
- The cd Command
- The continue command
- The echo Command
- The eval Command
- The exec Command
- The exit Command
- The export Command
- The false Command
- The fc Command
- The fg Command
- The for Command
- The getopts Command
- The hash Command
- The if Command
- The jobs Command
- The kill Command
- The newgrp Command
- The pwd Command
- The read Command
- The readonly Command
- The return Command
- The set Command
- The shift Command
- The test Command
- The times Command
- The trap Command
- The true Command
- The type Command
- The umask Command
- The unalias Command
- The unset Command
- The until Command
- The wait Command
- The while Command
- B. For More Information
Stephen G. Kochan is the owner of TechFitness, a technology-based fitness company. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of Pipeline Associates, a company specializing in color printing software. Mr. Kochan is the author of several best-selling books on Unix and C programming, including the best-selling Programming in C. He also acted as Series Editor for the Hayden Unix System Library.
Patrick Wood is the CTO of the New Jersey location of Electronics for Imaging. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories when he met Mr. Kochan in 1985. Together they founded Pipeline Associates, Inc., a Unix consulting firm, where he was the Vice President. They coauthored Exploring the Unix System, Unix System Security, Topics in C Programming, and Unix Shell Programming.
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