Mastering Linux

A Linux Primer What Is an Operating System? Getting Started: Login and Logout  Understanding the Shell Using Files and Directories Protecting Files: Access Control Text Editing Getting Hard/Saved Copies Communicating with Others Browsing the Web Creating and Running Your Own Program Consulting Linux Documentation Rounding up Useful Commands    Interactive Use of the Shell Bash  Interacting with Bash Command-Line Editing and Command Completion Bash Command Execution Bash Input/Output Redirection Bash Job Control Bash Shell Expansions Bash Built-in Commands Shell Variables Environment of a Program Examples of Bash Usage Default File Permissions  Shell Startup and Initialization Shell Special Characters and Quoting Simple Functions For More Information    Desktops, Windows, and Applications Desktop Overview: GNOME and KDE  GNOME Desktop Components Working with the GNOME Desktop Windows Nautilus: The GNOME File Manager  Graphical Applications  The GNOME Terminal Saving Energy Accessing Help and Documentation    Filters and Regular Expressions Commands and Filters The grep Command Regular Expressions Patterns for grep A Stream Editor: sed Building Pipelines Pattern Processing: awk For More Information    Writing Shell Scripts Invoking Shell Scripts  A First Shell Script  Shell Script Execution  Positional Parameters  The for Command  The if Command  Test Expressions and Exit Status The shift Command The case Command  The while and until Commands  Numerical Expressions  The break and continue Commands  File Queries  Variables Arrays  Variable Modifiers  The Here Document  More on Functions Redefining Bash Built-in Functions  Example Bash Scripts Debugging Shell Scripts  Error and Interrupt Handling The Perl Alternative For More Information    The File System A File Location Road Map  File Types More on File Access Control File Status File System Implementation The Filesystem Table File Storage Quotas Creating Special Files  Network Filesystem Searching the File Tree: find  The locate Command  Saving, Compressing, and Distributing Files More File-Related Commands  For More Information    Networking, Internet, and the Web Networking Protocols The Internet The Domain Name System  Networking in Nautilus  Networking Commands  SSH with X11 Forwarding Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signature Secure Email with Mutt and GnuPG Message Digests The Web Handling Different Content Types  Putting Information on the Web  What Is HTML?  Web Hosting  Domain Registration  The DNS  Dynamic Generation of Web Pages  HTTP Briefly  A Real HTTP Experience For More Information    Web Hosting: Apache, PHP and MySQL What Is a Web Server?  URL and URI  Request Processing  Response and Content Types  The Apache Web Server  Apache on Linux Apache Run-Time Configuration Access Control under Apache Requiring Passwords How HTTP Basic Authentication Works  How HTTP Digest Authentication Works Password Encryption Automatic File Deflation  Installing Apache with Package Management Manual Installation of Apache What Is PHP?  The PHP Module for Apache Testing PHP  PHP Configuration  Database Support for the Web  MySQL Installing phpMyAdmin  Installing MySQL  Linux Package Management For More Information    C Programming in Linux Command-Line Arguments Linux Command Argument Conventions  The GCC Compiler The C Library Creating Libraries and Archives  Error Handling in C Programs Error Recovery Debugging with GDB Examining Core Dumps For More Information    I/O and Process Control System Calls System-Level I/O  I/O Descriptors  Reading and Writing I/O Descriptors  Operations on Files  Operations on Directories  Directory Access  An Example: ccp  Shell-Level Commands from C Programs  Process Control The Process Table Process Creation: fork Program Execution: exec Routines  Synchronization of Parent and Child Processes  Process Termination  The User Environment of a Process Interrupts and Signals For More Information    Interprocess and Network Communication Opening a Process for I/O  IPC with pipe  Two-Way Pipe Connections  Network Communication Sockets A TCP Echo Client  Using Datagram Sockets  Socket I/O System Calls TCP-Based Servers Network Library Routines  On-Demand Internet Services  Daemon Processes  I/O Multiplexing  TCP Out-of-Band Data For More Information    GUI Programming with Ruby/GTK2 Getting Started with Ruby/GTK2  GTK+ Event Handling Basics  A Ruby Primer  GTK+ Widgets More about Events  OOP with Ruby/GTK2  A Tic Tac Toe Game  Menu Bar  Drag and Drop For More Information    Index    A Summary and Exercises appear at the end of each chapter.    Appendices can be found at http://ml.sofpower.com