Preface; The UNIX Operating System; Versions of UNIX; What This Handbook Covers; What's New in the Fourth Edition; Format; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Getting Started; 1.1 Working in the UNIX Environment; 1.2 Syntax of UNIX Command Lines; 1.3 Types of Commands; 1.4 The Unresponsive Terminal;Chapter 2: Using Window Systems; 2.1 Introduction to Windowing; 2.2 Starting X; 2.3 Running Programs; 2.

4 Working with a Mouse; 2.5 Working with Windows; 2.6 Other X Clients; 2.7 Quitting;Chapter 3: Your UNIX Account; 3.1 The UNIX Filesystem; 3.2 Looking Inside Files; 3.3 Protecting and Sharing Files; 3.4 Electronic Mail; 3.

5 Changing Your Password; 3.6 Customizing Your Account;Chapter 4: File Management; 4.1 Methods of Creating Files; 4.2 File and Directory Names; 4.3 File and Directory Wildcards; 4.4 Managing Your Files; 4.5 Printing Files;Chapter 5: Redirecting I/O; 5.1 Standard Input and Standard Output; 5.

2 Pipes and Filters;Chapter 6: Multitasking; 6.1 Running a Command in the Background; 6.2 Checking on a Process; 6.3 Cancelling a Process;Chapter 7: Where to Go from Here; 7.1 Standard UNIX Documentation; 7.2 Shell Aliases and Functions; 7.3 Programming;Reading List; General UNIX Books; Text Processing and Programming; Shells; The X Window System;Reference; Commands and Their Meanings; Special Symbols;Colophon;.