Part II: Some Basic Stuff
In This Part:
Chapter 4: Opening Windows on UNIX
Chapter 5: Files for Fun and Profit
Chapter 6: Directories for Fun and Profit
Chapter 7: The Shell Game
Chapter 8: Where’s That File?
Chapter 9: Printing (The Gutenberg Thing)
In this part . . .
UNIX, like other computer systems, keeps your information in things called files. When you work with UNIX, you frequently need to make new files, rename files, make copies of particularly interesting files, get rid of files that have outlived their usefulness, find a file you temporarily mislaid, or print what’s in a file.This part of the book also talks about graphical user interfaces (GUIs), with sort of clever names like KDE and GNOME, which let you use a mouse to point at things on-screen. Most people find GUIs a big improvement over typing commands, but you have to know what to point at and click. You’re about to find out!