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Table of Contents; Preface; A Book for Browsing; Like an Almanac; Like a News Magazine; Like a Hypertext Database; Programs on the Web; About Unix Versions; Cross-References; What's New in the Third Edition; Typefaces and Other Conventions; The Authors; The Fine Print; Request for Comments; Acknowledgments for the FirstEdition; Acknowledgments for the SecondEdition; Acknowledgments for the ThirdEdition; Part I; Introduction; 1.1 What's Special About Unix?; 1.2 Power Grows on You; 1.3 The Core of Unix; 1.4 Communication with Unix; 1.5 Programs Are Designed to Work Together. 1.6 There Are Many Shells1.7 Which Shell Am I Running?; 1.8 Anyone Can Program the Shell; 1.9 Internal and External Commands; 1.10 The Kernel and Daemons; 1.11 Filenames; 1.12 Filename Extensions; 1.13 Wildcards; 1.14 The Tree Structure of the Filesystem; 1.15 Your Home Directory; 1.16 Making Pathnames; 1.17 File Access Permissions; 1.18 The Superuser (Root); 1.19 When Is a File Not a File?; 1.20 Scripting; 1.21 Unix Networking and Communications; 1.22 The X Window System; Getting Help; 2.1 The man Command; 2.2 whatis: One-Line Command Summaries. 2.3 whereis: Finding Where a Command Is Located2.4 Searching Online Manual Pages; 2.5 How Unix Systems Remember TheirNames; 2.6 Which Version Am I Using?; 2.7 What tty Am I On?; 2.8 Who's On?; 2.9 The info Command; Part II; Setting Up Your Unix Shell; 3.1 What Happens When You Log In; 3.2 The Mac OS X Terminal Application; 3.3 Shell Setup Files-Which, Where, andWhy; 3.4 Login Shells, Interactive Shells; Login Shells; Interactive Shells; 3.5 What Goes in Shell Setup Files?; 3.6 Tip for Changing Account Setup: Keep a Shell Ready; 3.7 Use Absolute Pathnames in Shell Setup Files. 3.8 Setup Files Aren't Read When YouWant?3.9 Gotchas in set prompt Test; 3.10 Automatic Setups for DifferentTerminals; 3.11 Terminal Setup: Testing TERM; 3.12 Terminal Setup: Testing Remote Hostname and X Display; 3.13 Terminal Setup: Testing Port; 3.14 Terminal Setup: Testing EnvironmentVariables; 3.15 Terminal Setup: Searching TerminalTable; 3.16 Terminal Setup: Testing Window Size; 3.17 Terminal Setup: Setting and Testing Window Name; 3.18 A .cshrc. HOST File forPerHostSetup; 3.19 Making a "Login" Shell; 3.20 RC Files; 3.21 Make Your Own Manpages Without Learning troff. 3.22 Writing a Simple Manpage with the -man MacrosInteracting with Your Environment; 4.1 Basics of Setting the Prompt; 4.2 Static Prompts; 4.3 Dynamic Prompts; 4.4 Simulating Dynamic Prompts; 4.5 C-Shell Prompt Causes Problems invi, rsh, etc.; 4.6 Faster Prompt Setting with Built-ins; 4.7 Multiline Shell Prompts; 4.8 Session Info in Window Title orStatusLine; 4.9 A "Menu Prompt" for Naive Users; 4.10 Highlighting and Color in Shell Prompts; 4.11 Right-Side Prompts; 4.12 Show Subshell Level with SHLVL; 4.13 What Good Is a Blank Shell Prompt?; 4.14 dirs in Your Prompt: Better Thancwd