#462 Unix Power Tools
Book notes - Unix Power Tools, by Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O’Reilly, Mike Loukides. First published January 1, 1993.
Notes
Contents
- I: Basic Unix Environment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Getting Help
- II: Customizing Your Environment
- 3: Setting Up Your Unix Shell
- 4: Interacting with Your Environment
- 5: Getting the Most out of Terminals, xterm, and X Windows
- 6: Your X Environment
- III: Working with Files and Directories
- 7: Directory Organization
- 8: Directories and Files
- 9: Finding Files with find
- 10: Linking, Renaming, and Copying Files
- 11: Comparing Files
- 12: Showing What’s in a File
- 13: Searching Through Files
- 14: Removing Files
- 15: Optimizing Disk Space
- IV: Basic Editing
- 16: Spell Checking, Word Counting, and Textual Analysis
- 17: vi Tips and Tricks
- 18: Creating Custom Commands in vi
- 19: GNU Emacs
- 20: Batch Editing
- 21: You Can’t Quite Call This Editing
- 22: Sorting
- V: Processes and the Kernel
- 23: Job Control
- 24: Starting, Stopping, and Killing Processes
- 25: Delayed Execution
- 26: System Performance and Profiling
- VI: Scripting
- 27: Shell Interpretation
- 28: Saving Time on the Command Line
- 29: Custom Commands
- 30: The Use of History
- 31: Moving Around in a Hurry
- 32: Regular Expressions (Pattern Matching)
- 33: Wildcards
- 34: The sed Stream Editor
- 35: Shell Programming for the Uninitiated
- 30: Shell Programming for the Initiated
- 37: Shell Script Debugging and Gotchas
- VII: Extending and Managing Your Environment
- 38: Backing Up Files
- 39: Creating and Reading Archives
- 40: Software Installation
- 41: Perl
- 42: Python
- VIII: Communication and Connectivity
- 43: Redirecting Input and Output
- 44: Devices
- 45: Printing
- 46: Connectivity
- 47: Connecting to MS Windows
- IX: Security
- 48: Security Basics
- 49: Root, Group, and User Management
- 50: File Security, Ownership, and Sharing
- 51: SSH
Source Code
Example sources are maintained at https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9780596003302/.
The repo contains a zipped version of the sources, so I uncompress them to an example_source folder
after cloning the repo:
git clone https://resources.oreilly.com/examples/9780596003302 example_source_repo
mkdir example_source
tar -zxvf example_source_repo/example_files.tar.gz -C ./example_source
Credits and References
- UNIX PowerTools 2nd Edition
- UNIX PowerTools 3rd Edition