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Sams Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 24 Hours
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Sams Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 24 Hours

by Dave Taylor
July 2002
Beginner
528 pages
12h 5m
English
Sams
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Hour 2 An Unsung Resource: Unix Documentation

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The last hour discussed various nuances of Unix installation on smaller computers. This hour starts you toward becoming a Unix system administration expert. Our goal for this hour is to explore the valuable online documentation that’s included with your Unix system. Along the way, we’ll read through some shell scripts and Perl scripts, and fix a system bug, too.

In this hour you will learn the philosophy of digging, including

• How to use apropos to search through documentation

• How to find just the right command you need

• How to use the strings command to dig around binary files

The Philosophy ...

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