Operating System Tutorial

Table of Contents

• About this book
  • How this book is organized
  • Related documentation
  • Typographical conventions
  • How can we improve this book?
• Chapter 1: Getting started
  • SCO operating system
  • Logging in
    • Your terminal type
    • Changing your password
    • Identifying your shell
  • Logging out
  • Summary
• Chapter 2: Electronic mail
  • Sending mail
  • Reading mail
  • Responding to mail
  • More mail features
    • Getting help
    • Saving mail
    • Deleting and recovering mail
    • Forwarding mail
    • Using the vi editor in mail
    • Mailing several people at once: aliases
  • Summary
• Chapter 3: Directories and files
  • Directories
    • Your home directory
    • Identifying your current directory
    • Changing directories
  • Files
    • Listing the files in a directory
    • Hidden files
    • Listing more information about files
    • Narrowing the listing: using wildcards
  • Summary
• Chapter 4: Writing and editing
  • Putting text into a file
    • Filenames
    • Looking at files
  • Using the vi editor
    • Entering text
    • Moving around in a file
    • Correcting mistakes
  • Printing files
    • Printing several copies
    • Checking on a print job
    • Canceling a print job
  • Summary
• Chapter 5: Managing files
  • More ways to look at files
    • Reading a file one screen at a time
    • Reading just the first or last lines of a file
  • Making directories
  • Removing directories
  • Copying files
  • Renaming files
  • Removing files
  • Summary
• Chapter 6: Commands revisited: pipes and redirection
  • Putting the output of a command into a file
  • Using a file as input to a command
  • Joining files together
  • Background processing
  • Appending one file to another
  • Using pipes to build your own utilities
  • Summary
• Chapter 7: Protecting files and directories
  • Reading a long listing
    • Permissions
    • Owner, group, other
  • Changing the group of a file
  • Changing the owner of a file
  • Changing the permissions on a file
  • Summary
• Chapter 8: Power tools
  • Searching for a file
  • Searching for text within files
  • Checking who is logged in
  • Finding out more information about a user
  • Finding out the time and date
  • Seeing a calendar
  • Remembering your appointments
  • Using a calculator
  • Clearing the screen
  • Summary
• Chapter 9: Customizing your environment
  • Your environment
  • Changing your prompt
  • Setting your path
  • Default file permissions
    • Changing permissions with absolute mode
    • Setting your file creation mask
  • Configuring mail
  • Creating command aliases
  • Summary
• Appendix A: Going from DOS to UNIX
• Glossary
• Index