UNIX For Dummies [Electronic resources]

Index

B

backups

by administrator, 82, 316

to disk, 318–319

failing to keep, 347

need for, 317

restoring files from backups, 319–320

strategies, 320–321

to tape, 317–318

temporary, copying files for, 83, 316, 322–323

Barkakati, Naba (Red Hat Linux Secrets), 360

BASH (Bourne Again shell)

command editing, 25

overview, 25

.profile file, 115–116, 117, 189

prompt, 24, 25

reissuing commands, 30, 113–114

search path, 189

batch formatting for printing, 142–145

Bell Labs (UNIX developers), 20

Berkeley Software Distributions UNIX. See BSD UNIX

biff, 69

/bin directory, 98, 186, 189, 192–194

binary mode (FTP), 281–282

books, 360

Bourne shell. See also shells

overview, 25

.profile file, 115–116, 117, 189

prompt, 24, 25

search path, 189

Bourne, Steve (shell creator), 25

Broken pipe message, 333

browsers. See Web browsers

BSD (Berkeley Software Distributions) UNIX

canceling printing, 138–139

Linux’s relationship to, 34

overview, 20

printing in, 134

ps command, 204–205

Building a Web Site For Dummies (Crowder, David and Rhonda), 295

built-in commands, 27

bunzip2 program, 180

bzcat program, 180

bzip2 program, 180