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The Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial
22 October 2007
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Terms of Use and Disclamier of Warranty
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Preface
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Operating Systems
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1.1 What Is an Operating System
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1.2 Processes
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1.2.1 Virtual Memory Basics
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1.3 Files and Directories
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1.4 Operating System Layers
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1.5 Moving On
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Chapter 2 Linux Basics
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2.1 What Linux is All About
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2.1.1 Guided Tour
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2.1.2 What Linux is Made of
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2.1.3 What Linux Does
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2.1.4 What goes with Linux
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2.2 Linux Documentation
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2.3 Other Resources
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2.3.1 Linux Certification
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Chapter 3 Working with the System
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3.1 Backing-up and Restoring Files
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3.2 Interacting with the System
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3.3 Logging In
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3.4 Logging Out
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3.5 When Things Go Wrong
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3.6 Accessing Disks
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Chapter 4 Shells and Utilities
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4.1 The Shell
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4.2 The Search Path
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4.3 Directory Paths
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4.5 Permissions
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4.6 Regular Expressions and Metacharacters
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4.8 Pipes and Redirection
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4.9 Interpreting the Command
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4.16 The C-Shell
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4.17 Commonly Used Utilities
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4.17.1 Examples of Commonly Used Utilities
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Directory listings:ls
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Removing files:rm
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Copying files:cp
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Renaming and moving files:mv
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Display the contents of files:cat
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