This part of the guide contains a list of various topics whichintroduce andexplain the use and administration of Unix-like systems.

There is an attempt to organise the subpages into parts.

• Shell Promptintroducing the shell, commands, and arguments
• Quoting and Filename Expansion
• Pipes and Job Control
• Signals
• Choice of Shell
• Environmentenvironment variables and process limits
• Connecting to Remote Unixaccessing remote shells and files (October 7, 2005)

• Scheduling Jobsat, cron
• Introduction to Editorsavailable text editors
• more
• less
• chmod
• chgrp
• cut
• sort
• sed
• awk
• bcutility for arbitrary-precision arithmetic
• rofftext formatting, often for manual pages

• Becoming Rootsu and sudo for running commands as the root user
• Installing Packagesbinary packages from your OS-vendor (October 2, 2005)

• Determining Hardwarewhat hardware is my system using?
• Filesystems and Swapmounting disks, formatting and mounting disk images (October 2, 2005)
• Partitioning Diskscreating and editting partition maps (October 3, 2005)
• Compact Discsplaying audio, ripping with cdparanoia, burning with cdrecord

• Interprocess Communicationpipes, sockets, packets, local versus network
• Real Networking InterfacesEthernet, PPP, wireless
• Fake Networking Interfacesloopback, bridges, encapsulation
• This list needs more topics.

• Mail Server OverviewIncoming Mail, Outgoing Mail, Local Mail, Client Connectivity
• Mail Server Related Terminology

• FirewallsHow firewalls work and how to configure them

• Finding Additional Helpsearch engines and user groups

• Book:Guide to Unix