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The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use

Preface Format of Recipes Assumptions, Scope, and Exclusions Typographical Conventions Versions, Latest Edition, and Errata Acknowledgments PART ONE: Working with Linux Introduction Background and History What's Unix? What's Free Software? What's Open Source? What's Linux? What's Debian? Unix and the Tools Philosophy What to Try First If You Need More Help What Every Linux User Knows Controlling Power to the System Powering Up the System Turning Off the System Accounts and Privileges Logging In to the System Logging Out of the System Console Basics Switching between Consoles Scrolling the Console Text Keys for Console Manipulation Running a Command Changing Your Password Listing User Activity Listing Your Username Listing Who Is on the System Listing Who Is on and What They're Doing Listing the Last Times a User Logged In Listing System Activity Listing Your Current Processes Listing All of a User's Processes Listing All Processes on the System Listing Processes by Name or Number Help Facilities Finding the Right Tool for the Job Listing a Description of a Program Listing the Usage of a Tool Reading a Page from the System Manual Using the GNU Info System Reading System Documentation and Help Files The Shell Keys for Command Line Editing Passing Special Characters to Commands Letting the Shell Complete What You Type Repeating the Last Command You Typed Running a List of Commands Redirecting Input and Output Redirecting Input to a File Redirecting Output to a File Redirecting Error Messages to a File Redirecting Output to Another Command's Input Managing Jobs Suspending a Job Putting a Job in the Background Putting a Job in the Foreground Listing Your Jobs Stopping a Job Command History Viewing Your Command History Specifying a Command from Your History Recording a Shell Session Customizing Your Shell Changing the Shell Prompt Making a Command Alias Adding to Your Path Customizing Future Shells The X Window System Running X Starting X Stopping X Running a Program in X Specifying Window Size and Location Specifying Window Colors Specifying Window Font Specifying Additional Window Attributes Manipulating X Client Windows Moving a Window Resizing a Window Destroying a Window Minimizing a Window Maximizing a Window Moving around the Desktop Running a Shell in X Configuring X Switching between Video Modes Running X Clients Automatically Changing the Root Window Parameters Choosing a Window Manager PART TWO: Files Files and Directories Naming Files and Directories Making an Empty File Making a Directory Making a Directory Tree Changing Directories Changing to Your Home Directory Changing to the Last Directory You Visited Getting the Name of the Current Directory Listing Directories Listing File Attributes Listing Directories Recursively Listing Newest Files First Listing Hidden Files Listing Directories in Color Listing Directory Tree Graphs Additional Directory Listing Options Copying Files and Directories Moving Files and Directories Changing File Names to Lowercase Renaming Multiple Files with the Same Extension Removing Files and Directories Removing a File with a Strange Name A Safe Way to Remove a File Giving a File More than One Name Specifying File Names with Patterns Browsing Files Sharing Files Groups and How to Work in Them Listing the Groups a User Belongs To Listing the Members of a Group File Ownership Determining the Ownership of a File Changing the Ownership of a File Controlling Access to Files Listing the Permissions of a File Changing the Permissions of a File Write-Protecting a File Making a File Private Making a File Public Making a File Executable Finding Files Finding All Files That Match a Pattern Finding Files in a Directory Tree Finding Files in a Directory Tree by Name Finding Files in a Directory Tree by Size Finding Files in a Directory Tree by Modification Time Finding Files in a Directory Tree by Owner Running Commands on the Files You Find Finding Files by Multiple Criteria Finding Files in Directory Listings Finding the Largest Files in a Directory Finding the Smallest Files in a Directory Finding the Smallest Directories Finding the Largest Directories Finding the Number of Files in a Listing Finding Where a Command Is Located Managing Files Determining File Type and Format Changing File Modification Time Splitting a File into Smaller Ones Comparing Files Determining Whether Two Files Differ Finding the Differences between Files Patching a File with a Difference Report Compressed Files Compressing a File Decompressing a File File Archives Creating a File Archive Listing the Contents of an Archive Extracting Files from an Archive Tracking Revisions to a File Checking In a File Revision Checking Out a File Revision Viewing a File's Revision Log PART THREE: Text Viewing Text Perusing Text Perusing a Text File Perusing Multiple Text Files Commands Available While Perusing Text Outputting Text Showing Non-printing Characters Outputting a Beginning Part of a Text Outputting an Ending Part of a Text Outputting a Middle Part of a Text Outputting the Text between Strings Outputting Text in a Dialect Streaming Text Viewing a Character Chart Text Editing Choosing the Perfect Text Editor Emacs Getting Acquainted with Emacs Basic Emacs Editing Keys Making Abbreviations in Emacs Recording and Running Macros in Emacs Inserting Special Characters in Emacs Running a Vi Tutorial Selecting Text Cutting Text Pasting Text Editing Streams of Text Concatenating Text Writing Text to Files Appending Text to a File Inserting Text at the Beginning of a File Including Text Files Grammar and Reference Spelling Finding the Correct Spelling of a Word Listing the Misspellings in a Text Keeping a Spelling Word List Interactive Spell Checking Spell Checking in Emacs Dictionaries Listing Words that Match a Pattern Listing the Definitions of a Word Listing the Synonyms of a Word Listing the Antonyms of a Word Listing the Hypernyms of a Word Online Dictionaries Checking Grammar Checking Text for Misused Phrases Checking Text for Doubled Words Checking Text for Readability Checking Text for Difficult Sentences Checking Text for Long Sentences Word Lists and Reference Files Analyzing Text Counting Text Counting the Characters in a Text Counting the Words in a Text Counting the Lines in a Text Counting the Occurrences of Something Counting Lines per Page in Emacs Making a Concordance of a Text Text Relevance Sorting Text in Order of Relevance Listing Relevant Files in Emacs Finding Anagrams in Text Finding Palindromes in Text Text Cut-Ups Making Simple Text Cut-Ups Making Random Word Cut-Ups Making Cut-Ups in Emacs Formatting Text Spacing Text Eliminating Extra Spaces in Text Single-Spacing Text Double-Spacing Text Triple-Spacing Text Adding Line Breaks to Text Adding Margins to Text Swapping Tab and Space Characters Paginating Text Placing Headers on Each Page Placing Text in Columns Options Available When Paginating Text Underlining Text Sorting Text Numbering Lines of Text Reversing Text Searching Text Searching for a Word or Phrase Regular Expressions -- Matching Text Patterns Matching Lines Beginning with Certain Text Matching Lines Ending with Certain Text Matching Lines of a Certain Length Matching Lines That Contain Any of Some Regexps Matching Lines That Contain All of Some Regexps Matching Lines That Don't Contain a Regexp Matching Lines That Only Contain Certain Characters Finding Phrases Regardless of Spacing Finding Patterns in Certain Contexts Using a List of Regexps to Match From Regexps for Common Situations Searching More than Plain Text Files Matching Lines in Compressed Files Matching Lines in Web Pages Outputting the Context of a Search Searching and Replacing Text Searching Text in Emacs Searching Incrementally in Emacs Searching for a Phrase in Emacs Searching for a Regexp in Emacs Searching and Replacing in Emacs Searching Text in Less Typesetting and Word Processing Choosing the Right Typesetting System for the Job Converting Plain Text for Output Outputting Text in a Font Outputting Text as a Poster or Sign Outputting Text with Language Highlighting Outputting Text with Fancy Headers Outputting Text in Landscape Orientation Outputting Multiple Copies of Text Selecting the Pages of Text to Output Additional PostScript Output Options LyX Document Processing Features of LyX Writing Documents with LyX Learning More about LyX Typesetting with TeX and Friends Is It a TeX or LaTeX File? Processing TeX Files Processing LaTeX Files Writing Documents with TeX and LaTeX TeX and LaTeX Document Templates Writing Documents with SGMLtools Elements of an SGML Document Checking SGML Document Syntax Generating Output from SGML Other Word Processors and Typesetting Systems Fonts X Fonts Selecting an X Font Name Listing Available X Fonts Displaying the Characters in an X Font Resizing the Xterm Font Console Fonts Setting the Console Font Displaying the Characters in a Console Font Text Fonts Horizontal Text Fonts Making a Text Banner Other Font Tools PART FOUR: Images Viewing Images Previewing Print Files Previewing a DVI File Previewing a PostScript File Previewing a PDF File Viewing an Image in X Browsing Image Collections in X Putting an Image in the Root Window Browsing Images in a Console Viewing an Image in a Web Browser Browsing PhotoCD Archives Additional Image Viewers Editing Images Transforming Images Changing the Size of an Image Rotating an Image Adjusting the Colors of an Image Annotating an Image Adding Borders to an Image Making an Image Montage Combining Images Morphing Two Images Together Converting Images between Formats Editing Images with the GIMP Interactive Image Editors and Tools Importing Images Taking Screen Shots Taking a Screen Shot in X Taking a Screen Shot in a Console Scanning Images Listing Available Scanner Devices Testing a Scanner Scanning an Image Extracting PhotoCD Images Converting a PhotoCD Image Removing PhotoCD Haze PostScript Manipulating PostScript Pages Extracting DVI Pages to PostScript Extracting Pages from a PostScript File Combining PostScript Pages Arranging PostScript Pages in Signatures Manipulating PostScript Documents Resizing a PostScript Document Combining PostScript Documents Arranging a PostScript Document in a Booklet Converting PostScript Converting PostScript to PDF Converting PostScript to Plain Text PART FIVE: Sound Sound Files Sound File Formats Adjusting the Audio Controls Listing the Current Audio Settings Changing the Volume Level Muting an Audio Device Selecting an Audio Recording Source Playing a Sound File Playing an MP3 File Playing a MIDI File Recording a Sound File Other Sound File Tools Audio Compact Discs Controlling CD Audio Playing an Audio CD Pausing an Audio CD Stopping an Audio CD Shuffling Audio CD Tracks Displaying Information about an Audio CD Ejecting an Audio CD Sampling Sound from a CD Writing an Audio CD-R Other Audio CD Applications Editing Sound Files Working with Selections from Sound Files Cutting Out Part of a Sound File Pasting a Selection of Sound Mixing Sound Files Together Sound Effects Changing the Amplitude of a Sound File Changing the Sampling Rate of a Sound File The action depends on, especially drugs as https://gulickhhc.com/drugs/gastrointestinal/flagyl.htm can alcoholor controlling your life as can sometimes be acombined approach. 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Adding Reverb to a Sound File Adding Echo to a Sound File Adding Flange to a Sound File Adding Phase to a Sound File Adding Chorus to a Sound File Adding Vibro-Champ Effects to a Sound File Reversing a Sound File Converting Sound Files Making an MP3 File Converting MP3 to Another Format Other Tools for Sound Editing PART SIX: Productivity Disk Storage Listing a Disk's Free Space Listing a File's Disk Usage Floppy Disks Formatting a Floppy Disk Mounting a Floppy Disk Unmounting a Floppy Disk CD-ROMs Mounting a CD-ROM Unmounting a CD-ROM Printing Making and Managing Print Jobs Sending a Print Job to the Printer Printing Multiple Copies of a Job Listing Your Print Jobs Cancelling a Print Job More Recipes for Printing Printing in Emacs Printing with Dvips Printing the Contents of an Xterm Window Preparing Files for Printing Preparing a PostScript File for Printing Preparing a DVI File for Printing Preparing a PDF File for Printing Preparing a Man Page for Printing Cross-Platform Conversions Using DOS and Windows Disks Listing the Contents of a DOS Disk Copying Files to and from a DOS Disk Deleting Files on a DOS Disk Formatting a DOS Disk Using Macintosh Disks Specifying the Macintosh Disk to Use Listing the Contents of a Macintosh Disk Copying Files to and from a Macintosh Disk Deleting Files on a Macintosh Disk Formatting a Macintosh Disk Converting Text Files between DOS and Linux Converting Microsoft Word Files Converting Word to LaTeX Converting Word to Plain Text Reminders Displaying the Date and Time Playing an Audible Time Announcement Calendars Displaying a Calendar Displaying a Calendar in Emacs Managing Appointments Making an Appointment File Including Holidays in Your Reminders Automatic Appointment Delivery Contact Managers Keeping a Free-Form Address List Keeping a Contact Manager Database Reminding Yourself of Things Sending Yourself Email Reminders Reminding Yourself When You Have to Leave Running a Command on a Delay Mathematics Calculating Arithmetic Making a Quick Arithmetic Calculation Making Many Arithmetic Calculations Outputting a Random Number Listing a Sequence of Numbers Finding Prime Factors Converting Numbers Converting an Amount between Units of Measurement Converting an Arabic Numeral to English Other Math Tools PART SEVEN: Networking Communications Connecting to the Internet Setting Up PPP Controlling a PPP Connection Faxing Sending a Fax Receiving a Fax Receiving Faxes Automatically Converting to and from Fax Format Calling Out on a Modem Email Sending Mail Mailing a User on the Same System Mailing a File or the Output of a Command Mailing the Contents of a URL Special Mail Composition Keystrokes Receiving Mail Deleting Mail Options Available while Reading Mail Managing Mail Viewing a Mail Folder Setting Notification for New Mail Counting How Many Messages You Have Seeing Who Your Mail Is From Verifying an Email Address Mail Attachments Reading a Mail Attachment Sending a Mail Attachment Making an Email Signature Picking the Right Mail Application The World Wide Web Browsing the Web Maintaining a List of Visited Web Sites Opening a URL from a Script Mozilla Browsing Tips Viewing an Image from the Web Reading Text from the Web Perusing Text from the Web Viewing a Site That Requires Authorization Options Available while Browsing Text Browsing the Web in Emacs Getting Files from the Web Saving a URL to a File Archiving an Entire Web Site Archiving Part of a Web Site Reading the Headers of a Web Page Writing HTML Adding Parameters to Image Tags Converting HTML to Another Format Validating an HTML File More Web Browsers and Tools Other Internet Services Connecting to Another System Suspending a Connection with Another System Connecting to Another System with Encryption Transferring Files with Another System Uploading a File Downloading a File Reading Usenet Choosing a Newsreader Finding Newsgroups for a Topic Listing Online System and User Activity Checking Whether a System Is Online Checking Whether a User Is Online Listing Who Is Logged In to a System Finding the IP Address of a Host Name Finding the Host Name of an IP Address Listing the Owner of a Domain Name Sending a Message to Another User's Terminal Chatting with Other Users Chatting Directly with a User Chatting with Users on IRC Chatting with Users on ICQ Administrative Issues Linux and Hardware Compatibility Shutting Down the System Shutting Down Immediately Shutting Down at a Certain Time Cancelling a Shutdown Installing Software Getting and Installing Debian Installing a Debian Package Upgrading a Debian Package Installing a Shell Script Administrating Users Making a User Account Letting Users Access Hardware Peripherals Letting Users Mount Drives Displaying Information about the System How Long Has the System Been Up? What Version of Linux Am I Running? What Version of Debian Am I Running? Linux Resources on the Web License Design Science License Applying Copyleft to Your Work Program Index Concept Index

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