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| 1 Welcome to Linux |
| 1.1 A Note About Conventions |
| 1.2 The Root of the Matter |
| 1.3 How to Quit |
| 1.4 From Console Mode |
| 1.5 X Marks the Spot |
| 1.6 A Brand New You |
| 1.7 Shutting Down |
| 1.8 Pulling Yourself Up by the Boot |
| 1.9 A Good ``Man'' Is Easy to Find |
| 1.10 What is Rescue Mode? |
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| 2 You Are Here |
| 2.1 Finding Yourself With pwd |
| 2.2 Getting From Here to There: cd |
| 2.3 Looking Around With ls |
| 2.4 A Larger Picture of the Filesystem |
| 2.5 ``Washing'' the Window |
| 2.6 Using cat |
| 2.7 Using Redirection |
| 2.8 Appending Standard Output |
| 2.9 Redirecting Standard Input |
| 2.10 Pipes |
| 2.11 Stringing Commands Together |
| 2.12 Ownership and Permissions |
| 2.13 Fun with Numbers in chmod |
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| 3 Managing Files and Directories |
| 3.1 Shell Collecting |
| 3.2 Locating Files and Directories |
| 3.3 Command History and Tab Completion |
| 3.4 Identifying and Working with File Types |
| | 3.4.1 Compressed/Archived Files |
| | 3.4.2 File Formats |
| | 3.4.3 System Files |
| | 3.4.4 Programming and Scripting Files |
| | | 3.4.4.1 The less Command |
| | | 3.4.4.2 The more Command |
| | | 3.4.4.3 The head Command |
| | | 3.4.4.4 The tail Command |
| | | 3.4.4.5 The cat Command |
| | | 3.4.4.6 The grep Command |
| | | 3.4.4.7 I/O Redirection and Pipes |
| | | 3.4.4.8 Wildcards and Regular Expressions |
| 3.5 Copying, Moving and Renaming Files and Directories |
| | 3.5.1 Copying Files |
| | 3.5.2 Moving Files |
| | 3.5.3 Renaming Files |
| | 3.5.4 Deleting Files and Directories |
| | 3.5.5 Time to Learn More |
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| 4 What Do I Do Now? |
| 4.1 Getting the Documentation That's Right for You |
| | 4.1.1 Documentation For First-Time Linux Users |
| | 4.1.2 Documentation for More Experienced Linux
Users |
| | 4.1.3 Documentation for Linux Gurus |
| 4.2 The X Window System |
| | 4.2.1 If You Haven't Installed X |
| | | 4.2.1.1 XFree86 Configuration |
| | 4.2.2 If You've Already Installed X |
| | | 4.2.2.1 Starting X Manually |
| | | 4.2.2.2 Starting X Automatically |
| | | 4.2.2.3 Exiting X |
| | | 4.2.2.4 Changing Your Desktop |
| | | 4.2.2.5 Virtual Consoles and X |
| | | 4.2.2.6 Handy X-Based Tools |
| 4.3 Configuring Your Red Hat Linux System For Sound |
| | 4.3.1 Modular Sound Drivers |
| | | 4.3.1.1 Recognized Sound Cards |
| | 4.3.2 Sound Card Configuration Tool |
| 4.4 World Wide Web |
| | 4.4.1 World Wide Web Browsers |
| | 4.4.2 World Wide Web Server |
| 4.5 Good luck and enjoy! |
