May 1987
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
17h 3m
English
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A Miscellany of UNIX Commands
In this chapter, we present a miscellany of UNIX programs with text-processing applications. In addition, we introduce several UNIX utilities for communications and for reading and writing to tapes and floppy disks. These utilities are not specifically designed for text processing, but we have found them necessary for working in the UNIX environment. Although you can find more detailed information on these utilities in books aimed at a general audience, we’ve included brief discussions of them to encourage you to learn them.
UNIX has many standard programs, as a run-down of the table of contents for the UNIX Reference Manual will demonstrate. The challenge of UNIX is knowing which programs are appropriate for a specific situation. No one learns all the commands, but becoming familiar with a great number of them can be helpful. It is rather like those of us who collect far more books on our shelves than are “needed,” knowing the reward of finding the right book for the right occasion.
At times, you will be surprised when you discover a program with rather unusual or specialized capabilities; at other times, you may be frustrated by a demanding program or confused by inconsistencies from one program to the next. These qualities seem to originate from the open design of UNIX, and serve to distinguish this text-processing environment from the closed systems ...
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