Getting Started—A Guided Tour of UNIX

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Chapter 2. Getting Started—A Guided Tour of UNIX

Steve “Mor” Moritsugu

Access and connect to UNIX

Commands and command options

Absolute vs. full pathnames

Pagers, filters, regular expressions

Understanding Standard I/O

Tip for Beginners

This chapter is an overview of UNIX especially for you! It shows how the different UNIX concepts covered in various parts of this book interrelate. Don’t worry about the details—those are all covered elsewhere. Concentrate on the concepts.

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