Introduction

Greetings, and welcome to UNIX! In this book, you'll find the information you need to get started with the UNIX operating system, advance your skills, and make UNIX do the hard work for you. This book focuses on the most common UNIX commands, but it also gives you ideas for working smartly and efficiently.

How do you use this book?

We designed this book to be used as both a tutorial and a reference. If you're a UNIX newbie, you should start at the beginning and work forward through the first several chapters. As you progress through the chapters, you'll build on concepts and commands you learned in previous chapters. Then, as you become more proficient, you can start picking and choosing topics, depending on what you want to do. Be ...

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