Working with Unix

Unix is a powerful system for those who know how to harness its power. In this chapter, I'll try to describe various ways to use Unix's shell, bash , more efficently.

• Wildcards
  • What Really Happens?
  • The Question Mark
• Time Saving with bash
  • Command-Line Editing
  • Command and File Completion
• The Standard Input and The Standard Output
  • Unix Concepts
  • Output Redirection
  • Input Redirection
  • Solution: The Pipe
• Multitasking
  • The Basics
  • What Is Really Going On Here?
• Virtual Consoles: Being in Many Places at Once