| | | Copyright |
| | | spring into series |
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| | YOUR OPINION IS IMPORTANT TO US! |
| | | From the Series Editor |
| | | Preface |
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| | Who Should Read This Book? |
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| | How Is This Book Organized? |
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| | What's Unusual About This Book? |
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| | Who Helped Me Write This Book? |
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| | About the Author |
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| | About the Series Editor |
| | | Chapter 1.
Understanding Open Source Software |
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| | Open Source Software |
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| | Open Source License |
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| | Linux Is Open Source Software |
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| | What Is GNU? |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 2.
Choosing a Linux Distribution |
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| | Distribution Contents |
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| | Red Hat/Fedora |
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| | Mandrake |
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| | SuSE |
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| | Other Distributions |
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| | Live CDs |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 3.
Getting Ready to Install Linux |
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| | Hardware Requirements |
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| | Hardware Compatibility |
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| | Purchasing Linux |
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| | Downloading Linux |
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| | Planning Your Computer System |
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| | Running Linux with Windows |
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| | Examining Your Hard Drive |
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| | Making Room for Linux During Installation |
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| | Making Room for Linux Before Installation |
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| | Booting from the CD or from a Floppy |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 4.
Installation |
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| | Installation Overview |
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| | Starting the Fedora Installation Procedure |
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| | Collecting Hardware Information for Fedora |
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| | Selecting the Installation Type for Fedora |
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| | Selecting Where to Install Fedora |
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| | Collecting Network Information for Fedora |
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| | Languages and Time Zone for Fedora |
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| | Creating the Root Account for Fedora |
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| | Selecting Packages to Install on Fedora |
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| | Installing the Fedora System |
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| | Starting the Mandrake Installation Procedure |
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| | Collecting Information for Mandrake |
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| | Selecting Packages to Install on Mandrake |
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| | Installing the Mandrake System |
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| | Creating Accounts for Mandrake |
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| | Configuration Summary for Mandrake |
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| | Finishing Mandrake Installation |
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| | Starting the SuSE Installation Procedure |
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| | Configuration Settings for SuSE |
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| | Selecting Packages to Install on SuSE |
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| | Installing the SuSE System |
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| | Configuring the Installed SuSE System |
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| | Finishing SuSE Installation |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 5.
Interacting with Linux |
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| | The Graphical User Interface on Linux |
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| | GNOME |
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| | KDE |
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| | The Command-Line Interface on Linux |
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| | Choosing the Interface |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 6.
Using Your Desktop |
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| | Logging In |
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| | Your First Login |
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| | Anatomy of a Desktop |
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| | KDE and GNOME Desktops |
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| | The Panel |
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| | Working on the Desktop |
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| | Configuring the Desktop |
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| | Changing the KDE Background |
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| | Changing the GNOME Background |
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| | Setting Fonts |
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| | Setting the Screen Saver |
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| | Organizing the Desktop |
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| | Changing the Panel Location and Size |
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| | Configuring Multiple Virtual Desktops |
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| | Logging Out |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 7.
Using the Command Line |
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| | Entering Commands |
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| | Entering a Single Command |
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| | Command-Line Syntax |
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| | Redirecting Input and Output |
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| | Running Commands in the Background |
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| | Editing the Command Line |
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| | Command-Line Help |
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| | Some Useful Commands |
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| | The sort Command |
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| | The grep Command |
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| | Configuring the Terminal Window |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 8.
Linux Accounts |
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| | Account Types |
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| | Groups |
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| | Account Information |
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| | Adding Accounts |
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| | Passwords |
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| | Group Information |
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| | Adding Groups |
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| | Forgotten Root Password |
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| | Summary |
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File Management |
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| | File Organization |
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| | File Information |
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| | Examining Files from the Desktop |
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| | Examining Files from the Command Line |
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| | File Permissions |
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| | Changing Permissions |
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| | Managing Owners and Groups |
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| | File Types |
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| | Finding Files |
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| | Creating Directories, Files, and Links |
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| | Copying, Renaming, and Moving Files |
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| | Viewing and Editing Text Files |
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| | Deleting Files and Directories |
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| | Summary |
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Applications and Programs |
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| | Programs |
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| | Linux Commands |
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| | Applications |
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| | Managing Application Software |
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| | Installing from the Distribution CDs |
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| | Installing from the Distribution Web Site |
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| | Finding Packages on the Internet |
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| | Installing Packages Using RPM |
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| | Installing Packages from Source Code |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 11.
Word Processing |
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| | Creating a Document |
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| | Menus and Toolbars |
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| | Formatting |
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| | Styles |
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| | Using Templates |
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| | Creating Templates |
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| | Editing Document Contents |
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| | Autocorrection |
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| | Spell Checking |
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| | Tables and Columns |
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| | Frames |
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| | Graphics in Documents |
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| | The Gallery |
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| | Document File Formats |
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| | Tracking Changes |
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| | Summary |
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Spreadsheets |
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| | Creating a Spreadsheet |
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| | Menus and Toolbars |
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| | Formatting Cells |
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| | Formatting Pages |
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| | Editing the Spreadsheet Content |
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| | Formulas and Functions |
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| | Saving and Printing |
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| | Summary |
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Graphics |
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| | Graphics File Formats |
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| | Viewing Graphics Files |
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| | Scanning Documents |
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| | Presentation Graphics |
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| | Digital Cameras |
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| | Screen Shots |
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| | Diagramming with Dia |
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| | Drawing with OpenOffice Draw |
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| | Creating and Opening Images in the GIMP |
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| | The GIMP Toolbox |
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| | Changing Image Size in GIMP |
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| | Removing Elements from an Image in GIMP |
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| | Adding Elements to an Image in the GIMP |
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| | Working with Layers in the GIMP |
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| | Summary |
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Printing |
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| | Installing Your Printer on Fedora |
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| | Installing Your Printer on Other Distributions |
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| | Printing |
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| | Managing Print Jobs |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 15.
The Internet |
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| | Accessing the Internet |
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| | Hardware for Accessing the Internet |
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| | Checking Your Network Connections |
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| | Adding a Dial-Up Network Connection |
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| | Adding a Broadband Network Connection |
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| | Web Browsers |
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| | Browsing with Mozilla |
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| | Mozilla Menus and Toolbars |
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| | The Mozilla Sidebar |
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| | Tabbed Browsing in Mozilla |
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| | Controlling Pop-Ups with Mozilla |
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| | Downloads, Forms, Passwords, and Cookies |
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| | Plug-Ins |
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| | Summary |
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Multimedia |
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| | Configuring Your Sound Card |
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| | Playing Audio CDs |
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| | Downloading Music |
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| | Xmms |
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| | Rhythmbox |
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| | Video Players |
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| | RealPlayer |
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| | MPlayer |
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| | Listening to Radio |
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| | Copying Music Files from CD to Hard Disk |
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| | Summary |
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Email, Messaging, and News |
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| | Email Accounts |
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| | Email Software |
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| | Setting Up an Email Account |
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| | Configuring Mozilla Email |
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| | Reading Email in Mozilla |
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| | Sending Email in Mozilla |
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| | Mozilla Message Filters |
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| | Creating a Message Filter in Mozilla |
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| | Spam |
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| | Mozilla Address Book |
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| | Adding and Editing Address Cards |
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| | Instant Messaging |
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| | Signing Up for AIM |
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| | Signing Up for MSN Messenger |
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| | Signing On with Gaim |
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| | IM Conversations |
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| | Newsgroups |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 18.
Editing Text Files |
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| | Opening a File in Kate |
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| | Editing in Kate |
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| | Kate Features for Programmers |
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| | Opening a File in vi |
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| | Editing and Saving Files with vi |
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| | Moving Around a File in vi |
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| | vi Editing Commands |
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| | Sample vi Editing Session |
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| | Summary |
| | | Chapter 19.
Shell Scripts |
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| | A Simple Shell Script |
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| | The Basics of Variables and Arrays |
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| | Reading Data into Variables |
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| | Special Characters and Quotes |
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| | Flow Control |
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| | Testing Conditions |
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| | If Statements |
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| | Case Statements |
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| | For Loops |
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| | While Loops and Until Loops |
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| | Infinite Loops |
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| | Scheduling Scripts to Run Automatically |
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| | A Sample Script |
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| | Summary |
| | | Appendix A.
Regular Expressions |
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| | Match a Single Character ( . ) (?) |
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| | Specify the Location (^) ($) |
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| | Group Characters ( () ) |
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| | Match One of a Set of Literal Characters ( [ ] ) |
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| | Exclude a Set of Literal Characters ( [^ ] ) |
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| | Match a String of Characters (+) (*) ( { n} ) |
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| | Match One of Alternate Literal Strings ( ( | ) ) |
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| | Using Regular Expressions |
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| | Examples |
| | | Appendix B.
Command Reference |
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| | basename (display filename only) |
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| | bunzip2 (decompress bz2 files) |
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| | bzcat (display bz2 files) |
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| | bzip2 (compress files) |
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| | bzip2recover (recover bzip2 files) |
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| | cal (displays a calendar) |
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| | cat (display files) |
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| | cdage (change password expiration) |
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| | chgrp (change group) |
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| | chmod (change permissions) |
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| | chown (change owner) |
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| | clear (clear the screen) |
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| | cmp (compare files) |
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| | colrm (remove columns from a text file) |
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| | comm (compare two sorted text files) |
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| | cp (copy files) |
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| | crontab (schedule commands) |
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| | date (displays date and time) |
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| | df (display disk space) |
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| | diff (compare two text files) |
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| | diff3 (compare 3 text files, merges files) |
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| | dir (list filenames) |
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| | du (display disk usage) |
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| | echo (display text) |
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| | env (display and set environmental variables) |
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| | file (display file type) |
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| | find (find files) |
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| | finger (display user information) |
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| | fold (break lines at a specified column) |
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| | ftp (transfer files) |
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| | gawk (process text) |
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| | grep (find text in files) |
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| | groupadd (add a group) |
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| | groupdel (delete a group) |
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| | groups (show groups) |
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| | gunzip (uncompress gzip file) |
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| | gzip (compress files) |
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| | info (display online documentation) |
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| | less (display file one page at a time) |
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| | lpq (check print queue) |
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| | lpr (print) |
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| | lprm (remove a job from the print queue) |
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| | ls (list filenames) |
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| | man (display manual page) |
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| | merge (merge 3 files) |
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| | mkdir (create a new directory) |
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| | more (display files to screen) |
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| | mv (move or rename a file) |
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| | passwd (change password) |
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| | pwd (show current directory) |
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| | quota (show disk usage) |
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| | rename (rename series of files) |
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| | rm (delete files) |
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| | rmdir (remove directories) |
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| | sed (edits text files) |
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| | sleep (pause) |
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| | sort (sort contents of a file) |
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| | tar (copy files into or restore files from an archive file) |
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| | touch (update access and modification date) |
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| | uniq (remove duplicate lines) |
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| | unset (remove an environmental variable) |
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| | useradd (add accounts) |
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| | userdel (remove account) |
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| | w (display system information) |
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| | wc (count characters, words, and lines) |
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| | who (display users who are logged in) |
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| | whoami (display current user) |
| | | Index |