Samba for UNIX/Windows networking, 241–242, 359 saving e-mail messages in Pine, 253 saving files backups, 82, 316–321 in ed line editor, 170 in emacs text editor, 163 in pico text editor, 166 temporary copies, 83, 316, 322–323 in vi text editor, 157 scheduling tasks, 178–179 SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) UnixWare, 21 scp for remote copying, 235–236 search path, 189 searching. See also find command;
grep command executing commands on results, 126–127 for files by contents, 123–126 for files by name, 121–123 ls command for, 120 for manual pages, 354 for network users, 220–223 redirecting output to file, 127 remote computers, 123 running commands in the background, 127 in specific directories, 120, 122 wildcards for, 122–123 secret key with ssh , 234–235 secure shell. See ssh command sending e-mail, 246–248, 250, 258 Server Message Block (SMB), 241–242 setting up networks, 229 setting up UNIX, avoiding, 9 sh program. See Bourne shell shareware, 35 shell scripts, 113, 187–191, 193–194 shells. See also specific shells command processing by, 27 as command processors, 25 conventions in this book, 28 cursor, 30 ending command lines, 28 entering commands, 27–28, 29–31 exiting, 57 external versus internal commands, 27 in Mac OS X, 42 overview, 24–27 prompts, 24, 25 rebuilding list of programs, 190 stopping command execution, 30 terminal programs and, 51 showing. See displaying shutdown command, 11, 214 shutting down, 11, 12, 214. See also turning on and off signature file, 250 single quotation marks (‘) in commands, 31 slash (/) as C shell magic character, 26 for root directory, 93 in UNIX pathnames, 92–94 SMB (Server Message Block), 241–242 soft links, 130–131, 314. See also links to files software. See programs Solaris (Sun), UNIX versions and, 20, 21 sort program, 106–109, 176–178 spaces, 31, 81 SpamAssassin program, 260 special characters. See also specific characters C shell magic characters, 26 in commands, 31 forbidden in filenames, 81 ignoring in sort program, 177 terminal-control characters, 116–117 wildcards, 109–111, 125 speed matching for modems, 14 ssh command, 123, 233–235, 301 Stallman, Richard (FSF founder), 23 standard input and output, 103 star (*) wildcard, 109, 110–111, 122–123 Starting an Online Business For Dummies (Holden, Greg), 294 starting or running. See also turning on and off CDE, 60–61 ed line editor, 168 emacs text editor, 159 execute permission and, 85 KDE, 67 Konqueror Web browser, 265–266 Linux on same computer as Windows, 213 Motif, 50 Mozilla Web browser, 265–266 multiple programs, 200 pico text editor, 165 Pine e-mail program, 249 processes in the background, 206 programs from remote computer, 191 programs in GUIs, 51–52 programs in terminal windows, 52 programs using shell scripts, 193–194 shell scripts, 188, 190 vi text editor, 153 startkde command, 67 stateless versus stateful communication, 238–239 Stopped message, 207 stopping. See also exiting;
kill command command execution, 30 pop-up windows on the Web, 278 processes, 326–327 sounds in KDE, 68 X Window system, 329–330 stty command, 116, 117, 210 Style Manager (CDE), 64–65 subdirectories. See directories Sun Microsystems, 20, 21 superuser (Linux), 212 surfing the Web. See Web browsers SuSE Linux distribution, 5, 215 SVR1 through SVR4.4. See System V UNIX switches for commands, 79 symbolic links (symlinks), 130–131. See also links to files system crashes, NFS and, 240–241 System V UNIX canceling printing, 137–138 Linux based on, 34 overview, 21 printing in, 134 ps command, 202–203 subversions (SVR releases), 21