Introduction
UNIX For Dummies, 5th Edition! Although lots of good books about UNIX are out there, most of them assume that you have a degree in computer science, would love to learn every strange and useless command UNIX has to offer (and there are plenty), and enjoy memorizing unpronounceable commands and options. This book is different.Instead, this book describes what you really do with UNIX — how to get started, what commands you really need, and when to give up and go for help. And we describe it all in plain, ordinary English.
About This Book
We designed this book to be used when you can’t figure out what to do next. We don’t flatter ourselves that you are interested enough in UNIX to sit down and read the whole thing. When you run into a problem using UNIX (“I thought I typed a command that would copy a file, but it didn’t respond with any message . . .”), just dip into the book long enough to solve your problem.We have included sections about these kinds of things:
Typing commands
Copying, renaming, or deleting files
Printing files
Finding where your file went
Using the Internet from UNIX
Storing and updating a Web site on a UNIX computer
Connecting and communicating with people on other computers
In this fifth edition, we updated the information about Linux (the popular free version of UNIX), beefed up the information about the new KDE and GNOME window systems, and added information about Internet applications and hosting an Internet site on your own (or someone else’s) UNIX computer.