The unix programming environment

Edition 2.2, August 2001

• Foreword
• Welcome
• Overview
  • What is unix?
  • Flavours of unix
  • How to use this reference guide
  • NEVER-DO's in UNIX
  • What you should know before starting
    • One library: several interfaces
    • UNIX commands are files
    • Kernel and Shell
    • The role of C
    • Stdin, stdout, stderr
  • The superuser (root) and nobody
  • The file hierarchy
  • Symbolic links
  • Hard links
• Getting started
  • Logging in
  • Mouse buttons
  • E-mail
  • Simple commands
  • Text editing and word processing
• The login environment
  • Shells
    • Shell commands generally
    • Environment and shell variables
    • Wildcards
    • Regular expressions
    • Nested shell commands and "
  • UNIX command overview
    • Important keys
    • Alternative shells
    • Window based terminal emulators
    • Remote shells and logins
    • Text editors
    • File handling commands
    • File browsing
    • Ownership and granting access permission
    • Extracting from and rebuilding files
    • Locating files
    • Disk usage.
    • Show other users logged on
    • Contacting other users
    • Mail senders/readers
    • File transfer
    • Compilers
    • Other interpreted languages
    • Processes and system statistics
    • System identity
    • Internet resources
    • Text formatting and postscript
    • Picture editors and processors
    • Miscellaneous
  • Terminals
  • The X window system
    • The components of the X-window system
    • How to set up X windows
    • X displays and authority
  • Multiple screens
• Files and access
  • Protection bits
  • chmod
  • Umask
    • Making programs executable
    • chown and chgrp
    • Making a group
  • s-bit and t-bit (sticky bit)
• Bourne Again shell
  • `~/.bashrc' and `~/.bash_profile' files
  • Variables and export
  • Bash arrays
  • Stdin, stdout, stderr and redirection to and from files
  • Pipes
  • Command history
  • Command/filename completion
  • Single and double quotes
  • Job control, break key, `fg', `bg'
    • UNIX Processes and BSD signals
    • Child Processes and zombies
    • Bash builtins: `jobs', `kill', `fg',`bg', break key
  • Arithmetic in Bash
  • Scripts and arguments
  • Return codes
  • Tests and conditionals
  • Conditional structures
  • Input from the user in Bash
  • Loops in Bash
  • Procedures and traps
  • setuid and setgid scripts
  • Exercises
• C shell
  • .cshrc and .login files
  • Defining variables with set, setenv
  • Arrays
  • Pipes and redirection in csh
  • `tee' and `script'
  • Scripts with arguments
  • Sub-shells ()
  • Tests and conditions
    • Switch example: configure script
  • Loops in csh
  • Input from the user
  • Extracting parts of a pathname
  • Arithmetic
  • Examples
  • Summary: Limitations of shell programming
• Perl
  • Sed and awk, cut and paste
  • Program structure
  • Perl variables
    • Scalar variables
    • The default scalar variable.
    • Array (vector) variables
    • Special array commands
    • Associated arrays
    • Array example program
  • Loops and conditionals
    • The for loop
    • The foreach loop
    • Iterating over elements in arrays
    • Iterating over lines in a file
  • Files in perl
    • A simple perl program
    • == and `eq'
    • chop
  • Perl subroutines
  • die - exit on error
  • The stat() idiom
  • Perl example programs
    • The passwd program and `crypt()' function
    • Example with `fork()'
    • Example reading databases
  • Pattern matching and extraction
  • Searching and replacing text
  • Example: convert mail to WWW pages
  • Generate WWW pages automagically
  • Other supported functions
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Project
• WWW and CGI programming
  • Permissions
  • Protocols
  • HTML coding of forms
  • Perl and the web
    • Interpreting data from forms
    • A complete guestbook example in perl
  • PHP and the web
    • Embedded PHP
    • PHP and forms
    • A complete PHP guestbook
• C programming
  • Shell or C?
  • C program structure
    • The form of a C program
    • Macros and declarations
    • Several files
  • A note about UNIX system calls and standards
  • Compiling: `cc', `ld' and `a.out'
    • Libraries and `LD_LIBRARY_PATH'
    • Include files
    • Shared and static libraries
    • Knowing about important paths: directory structure
  • Make
    • Compiling large projects
    • Makefiles
    • New suffix rules for C++
  • The argv, argc and envp parameters
  • Environment variables in C
  • Files and directories
    • opendir, readdir
    • stat()
    • lstat and readlink
  • stat() test macros
    • Example filing program
  • Process control, fork(), exec(), popen() and system
  • A more secure popen()
  • Traps and signals
  • Regular expressions
  • DES encryption
  • Device control: ioctl
  • Database example (Berkeley db)
  • Text parsing tools: `lex' and `yacc'
  • Exercises
• Network Programming
  • Socket streams
  • Multithreading a server
  • System databases
  • DNS - The Domain Name Service
    • gethostbyname()
  • C support for NFS
  • Exercises
• Summary of programming idioms.
• Command and Variable Index
• Concept Index

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