How Do You Use This Book?
We designed this book to be used as both a tutorial and a reference. If you’re a Unix newbie, you should start at the beginning and work forward through the first several chapters. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll build on concepts and commands you learned in previous chapters. Then, as you become more proficient, you can start picking and choosing topics, depending on what you want to do. Be sure to reference the table of contents, index, and the appendixes to find information at a glance.
The commands used throughout this book apply to any version of Unix you might be using, including Linux, BSD, Solaris through your local Internet service provider, AIX or HP-UX at work, your Mac OS X or Linux system at ...
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