Index
P
packages (RPM), installing, 196–197
page numbers, printing, 140–141
partitioning hard drives (DOS), 213
passwd program, 16, 28–29
passwords changing, 16, 28–29
forgotten, 29
Linux, 212–213
for logging in, 14–17
recommendations for creating, 16–17
ssh and, 230
telnet , 230
writing on a sticky note, 348
pathnames, 93–94, 96, 122
pax command, 319–320
PCL printer language, 139
PCs. See computers
percent sign (%) shell prompt, 24, 25
period (.) as grep command wildcard, 126
hiding files with, 83
not ending commands with, 31
for parent directory (..), 98–99
for working directory, 98
Perl programming language, 299
Permission denied message, 338–339
permissions, 85–89, 338–339
personal information on UNIX, 220
PHP programming language, 298–299
pico text editor, 164–168
PID (process ID), 201, 203, 204
Pine e-mail program, 249–253
pipe symbol (|), 104, 105
pipes, 80, 105–109, 333
pkg_add program, 197
plain TeX text formatter, 151
policy independence of X Windows, 43, 45
POP (Post Office Protocol), 254
pop-up windows on the Web, 278
Postnuke, 299
PostScript printers, 139, 145
pound sign (#) for comments, 116
pr command, 140–142
printers internal buffer, 140
listing, 135–137
piping output to, 109
PostScript, 139, 145
printing to specific printer, 85, 135
redirecting output to, 104
printing adding titles and page numbers, 140–141
batch formatting for, 142–145
in BSD, 134
canceling, 137–140
daemons and, 133
double-space, 142
file copy versus original, 136
files side by side, 142
finding your printout, 134–135
in Linux, 134
listing printers, 135–137
manual pages, 353–354
multiple columns, 142
non-text files, 137
overview, 84–85
PostScript and, 139, 145–146
setting margins, 141
to specific printer, 85, 135
in System V, 134
processes. See also job control
continuing in the foreground, 207, 208
daemons as, 200
defined, 200
displaying with ps command, 201
killing, 209, 327–329
Lamarckian Heritability and, 205
No more processes message, 337–338
No process can be found message, 336
No such process message, 337
overview, 200
PID (process ID), 201, 203, 204
programs versus, 201
running in the background, 206
sticking in the background, 207, 208
stopping, 326–327
X Window system, 329–330
procmail mail-processing program, 260
.profile file, 115–116, 117, 189
programs. See also installing programs; specific programs
commands versus, 27
directory for, 186
e-mail, 246
exiting, 57
processes versus, 201
redirecting output from full-screen, 104
redirecting output to, 104
sources for, 185–186
starting, 51–52
ps command, 201–205, 326, 328
public domain software, 35
punctuation characters. See special characters; specific characters
put command (FTP), 286–287
pwd command, 95