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UNIX Bashics: For Seventh Graders
The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the UNIX operating system. At the end of this book user will have the fundamental skills required to login to a Unix system, manage files and directories, use Unix commands and manage processes, use an editor, create and execute simple shell scripts.
Why this book?
Internet is flooded with lot of resources already related to UNIX. A lot of books also available for learning UNIX. Then why we need another book in the same category? The answer to this lies in following points.
1. This book is a compact version of UNIX with all the details to start.
2. It talks less theory and more action.
3. Simple explanations are given for different commands
4. The chapters are created in step by step fashion.
5. More than 70 different commands are included in this book.
6. You will not be burdened with so many UNIX commands, because they are placed in a simple fashion in different chapters.
7. With real examples of different commands which you can try on your system easily.
8. Some exercises were included in different chapters based upon what you learned in the chapter. This will make you more familiar with the usage of different concepts and commands.
9. And it is not a that kind of book which looks heavy and large, you get bored just reading it. Rather you can start and finish this book in one go.
10. This book is also compiled, keeping in mind that school kids who are eager to learn to computer and start basic programming. That's why the title "For Seventh Graders".
11. Overall it a short and sweet book for learning UNIX.
Course
Expectation of this book is that the reader should be computer literate and familiar with the basic usage of an operating system.
No prior knowledge of UNIX is required. That's what this book is for.
Organisation of This Book :
This book is divided into following
1. Introduction to UNIX : A quick introduction of UNIX.
2. GUI vs CLI : A few sentences about GUI and CLI.
3. Executing UNIX Commands : How to start with UNIX?
4. Basic UNIX Commands : It starts with basic commands used in day to day life.
5. UNIX FileSystems : It talks about the organization of files and directories in the UNIX operating system.
6. Files and Directories : Usage of files and directories.
7. Standard I/O and Pipeline : Standard input and output operations with some commands.
8. Viewing and Editing Files : Here the VI editor is introduced for manipulating files. It is the soul of everything you want to do with files.
9. Advance UNIX Commands : It takes you to next level of commands related process management, memory management, disk management, file management, system management etc.
10. Archiving : The archiving utility available in UNIX.
11. Filters : This topic is related to file processing. Different type of filters like cat, tac, tr, sort, head, tail, cut, wc, grep, sed and awk are covered in this chapter.
12. User and Group Management : How to manage different users and groups in UNIX.
13. Files Permissions : It talks about the permissions available for files and directories and how to manage them. It includes both simple and special permissions.
14. Shell : Here a short introduction to shell and shell scripts is given
15. Commands Reference : Last but not the least, a table containing all the commands used in this book.
Why this book?
Internet is flooded with lot of resources already related to UNIX. A lot of books also available for learning UNIX. Then why we need another book in the same category? The answer to this lies in following points.
1. This book is a compact version of UNIX with all the details to start.
2. It talks less theory and more action.
3. Simple explanations are given for different commands
4. The chapters are created in step by step fashion.
5. More than 70 different commands are included in this book.
6. You will not be burdened with so many UNIX commands, because they are placed in a simple fashion in different chapters.
7. With real examples of different commands which you can try on your system easily.
8. Some exercises were included in different chapters based upon what you learned in the chapter. This will make you more familiar with the usage of different concepts and commands.
9. And it is not a that kind of book which looks heavy and large, you get bored just reading it. Rather you can start and finish this book in one go.
10. This book is also compiled, keeping in mind that school kids who are eager to learn to computer and start basic programming. That's why the title "For Seventh Graders".
11. Overall it a short and sweet book for learning UNIX.
Course
Expectation of this book is that the reader should be computer literate and familiar with the basic usage of an operating system.
No prior knowledge of UNIX is required. That's what this book is for.
Organisation of This Book :
This book is divided into following
1. Introduction to UNIX : A quick introduction of UNIX.
2. GUI vs CLI : A few sentences about GUI and CLI.
3. Executing UNIX Commands : How to start with UNIX?
4. Basic UNIX Commands : It starts with basic commands used in day to day life.
5. UNIX FileSystems : It talks about the organization of files and directories in the UNIX operating system.
6. Files and Directories : Usage of files and directories.
7. Standard I/O and Pipeline : Standard input and output operations with some commands.
8. Viewing and Editing Files : Here the VI editor is introduced for manipulating files. It is the soul of everything you want to do with files.
9. Advance UNIX Commands : It takes you to next level of commands related process management, memory management, disk management, file management, system management etc.
10. Archiving : The archiving utility available in UNIX.
11. Filters : This topic is related to file processing. Different type of filters like cat, tac, tr, sort, head, tail, cut, wc, grep, sed and awk are covered in this chapter.
12. User and Group Management : How to manage different users and groups in UNIX.
13. Files Permissions : It talks about the permissions available for files and directories and how to manage them. It includes both simple and special permissions.
14. Shell : Here a short introduction to shell and shell scripts is given
15. Commands Reference : Last but not the least, a table containing all the commands used in this book.
106 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 31, 2017
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