From the Back Cover:
Get Up to Speed on UNIX – in a Weekend!
The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about UNIX. The problem is, you′re not really up to speed. Maybe it′s been a while since you worked with UNIX. Or maybe you just like a challenge. In any event, we′ve got a solution for you – UNIX Weekend Crash Course. Open the book Friday evening and on Sunday afternoon, after completing 30 fast, focused sessions, you′ll be able to dive right in and get to work on a UNIX system. It′s as simple as that.
The Curriculum
Friday
Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
∗ The Many Flavors of UNIX
∗ Logging In and Out
∗ The File System
∗ The Running Processes
Saturday Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
∗ Introduction to the vi Editor
∗ Introduction to the emacs Editor
∗ Fundamentals of the Bourne Shell
∗ Using the Bourne Shell
∗ Using Other Shells
∗ Regular Expressions
Saturday, continued
Afternoon: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
∗ Files and the File System
∗ File System Operations
∗ The World′s Handiest Utilities
∗ The man Pages
∗ E–mail
∗ Writing Shell Scripts
Evening: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
∗ Shell Scripts with Conditionals
∗ Shell Scripts with Loops
∗ Users and the passwd File
∗ Batch Editing
Sunday Morning: 6 Sessions, 3 Hours
∗ Batch Editing with awk
∗ The Perl Programming Language
∗ Writing and Compiling a C Program
∗ More Handy Utilities
∗ A Few Daemons
∗ The X Window System
Afternoon: 4 Sessions, 2 Hours
∗ Archiving and Compressing Files
∗ Security
∗ Network Security and the Apache Server
∗ When UNIX Boots
CD–ROM includes:
∗ General UNIX utilities and resources, including Bash, Elm, Emacs, Grep, Pine, Apache, MySQL, Perl, Python, and more
∗ UNIX security utilities, including Snort, Nessus, SAINT, Tripwire, and more
∗ Code examples from the book
∗ Assessment test to help gauge your progress
About the Author:
Arthur Griffith (Homer, Alaska). Arthur has been a full–time writer since 1997. From 1977 through 1997, he worked as a computer consultant and a system–level programmer. Arthur′s first introduction to UNIX was in 1985 when he installed a BSD system on a DEC 750. This was followed by a contract to develop a specialized network communications protocol to transmit encrypted data over a WAN using SCO Xenix. He has also done extensive development work with HP–UX software and Sun′s Solaris and Motif. Arthur has authored nine books, six of them for HMI. His titles include: KDE Programming Bible (HMI; 2000); GNOME/GTK+ Programming Bible (HMI, 2000); COBOL For Dummies (HMI, 1997); Java Master Reference (HMI, 1998); and Peter Norton′s Complete Guide to Linux (Sams, 1999).
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