Guide to Unix/Explanations

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This part of the guide contains a list of various topics which introduce and explain the use and administration of Unix-like systems.

There is an attempt to organise the subpages into parts.

Contents 1 Part 1: Command Line 2 Part 2: Common Programs 3 Part 3: Administration 4 Part 4: Hardware 5 Part 5: Networking 6 Part 6: Security 7 Part 7: Beyond This Book

[edit] Part 1: Command Line

• Shell Prompt introducing the shell, commands, and arguments
• Quoting and Filename Expansion
• Pipes and Job Control
• Signals
• Choice of Shell
• Environment environment variables and process limits
• Connecting to Remote Unix accessing remote shells and files (October 7, 2005)

[edit] Part 2: Common Programs

• Scheduling Jobs at, cron
• Introduction to Editors available text editors
• Text Utilities cut, sort, sed, ...
• awk
• bc utility for arbitrary-precision arithmetic
• ed and sed text editors in command mode
• roff text formatting, often for manual pages

[edit] Part 3: Administration

• Becoming Root su and sudo for running commands as the root user
• Installing Packages binary packages from your OS-vendor (October 2, 2005)

[edit] Part 4: Hardware

• Determining Hardware what hardware is my system using?
• Filesystems and Swap mounting disks, formatting and mounting disk images (October 2, 2005)
• Partitioning Disks creating and editting partition maps (October 3, 2005)
• Compact Discs playing audio, ripping with cdparanoia, burning with cdrecord

[edit] Part 5: Networking

• Interprocess Communication pipes, sockets, packets, local versus network
• Real Networking Interfaces Ethernet, PPP, wireless
• Fake Networking Interfaces loopback, bridges, encapsulation
• This list needs more topics.

[edit] Part 6: Security

• Firewalls How firewalls work and how to configure them

[edit] Part 7: Beyond This Book

• Finding Additional Help search engines and user groups