MORE UNIX For Dummies

By John R. Levine and Margaret Levine Young.
May 1995, 375 pages, US$19.99. C$26.99, £18.99, ISBN 1-56884-361-5.

"UNIX For Dummies" got you started with UNIX. Now you want to know more. This book reveals how to use different UNIX shells, including the new Bourne-Again shell (bash), as well as how to write scripts and use sed and awk. Most importantly, many UNIX systems connect to the Internet, and you'll learn how to use e-mail, Usenet newsgroups, telnet, the World Wide Web, Gopher, FTP, and IRC -- all the great Internet services!

Table of Contents

Part I: Welcome Back!
Chapter 1: We're Ba-a-a-ck!
Chapter 2: A Short Refresher Course
Chapter 3: Far Too Many Versions of UNIX and a Few Too Many Shells

Part II: UNIX Scripts
Chapter 4: An Introduction to Scripts
Chapter 5: The Shell Game: Using Shell Variables
Chapter 6: Fancy Script Commands
Chapter 7: Setting Things Up Nice
Chapter 8: Down by the Old Text Stream (sed)
Chapter 9: Awk-ward, Ho!
Chapter 10: Mixing It Up

Part III: Editors and Mail Programs
Chapter 11: Oy, Vi!
Chapter 12: Have a Big Emacs!
Chapter 13: Climbing Elm
Chapter 14: Pining Away

Part IV: Motif
Chapter 15: Lite Motif
Chapter 16: Mutant Motif

Part V: UNIX and the Internet
Chapter 17: The Wide World of the Internet
Chapter 18: Talking to the Outside World
Chapter 19: Turbocharge Your Newsreading
Chapter 20: Telnetting around the Net
Chapter 21: Grabbing Files over the Net
Chapter 22: What's in That File?
Chapter 23: Gopher the Gusto
Chapter 24: Stuck to the World Wide Web
Chapter 25: Dealing with Excess Free Time: Internet Relay Chat