Learn UNIX in Fifteen Days

This book was written out of the need for a text which presented the material which was actually taught and tested in a typical UNIX course at the college level. It is not intended to replace a comprehensive UNIX manual, but for most students who have not yet spent five years learning all the "eccentricities" of the UNIX Operating System, it will present all they need to know (and more!) in order to use and support a UNIX system. This book will be useful at both the Introductory and the Advanced level of UNIX studies. Introductory students will find the first three chapters most useful, whereas Advanced students will refer to the entire book; with an emphasis on the later chapters. A section has been included entitled "Abbreviated Manual Pages for Selected Commands". You may find these pages even more useful than the Unix "man" online manual, since it removes those aspects of the manual that are written primarily for advanced programmers. What is printed in this book are only those manual paragraphs / sections that would be most useful to a beginning or intermediate-level student. At the end of each command, the authors have included the reference to the Internet Web site where you can go to read the entire manual page for that command. There are a total of sixteen labs. Also, at the back of the book, just before the index, is a page of addresses to Internet Web sites that will certainly be of interest to a Unix aficionado like yourself!