News Headers Who helped you put this list together? When someone refers to 'rn(1)' ... the number in parentheses mean? What does {some strange unix command name} stand for? How does the gateway between "comp.unix.questions" ... work ? What are some useful Unix or C books? What happened to the pronunciation list ... ?
News Headers How do I remove a file whose name begins with a "-" ? How do I remove a file with funny characters in the filename ? How do I get a recursive directory listing? How do I get the current directory into my prompt? How do I read characters from the terminal in a shell script? How do I rename "*.foo" to "*.bar", or change file names to lowercase? Why do I get [some strange error message] when I "rsh host command" ? How do I ... and have that change affect my current shell? How do I redirect stdout and stderr separately in csh? How do I tell inside .cshrc if I'm a login shell? How do I construct a ... matches all files except "." and ".." ? How do I find the last argument in a Bourne shell script? What's wrong with having '.' in your $PATH ? How do I ring the terminal bell during a shell script? Why can't I use "talk" to talk with my friend on machine X? Why does calendar produce the wrong output?
News Headers How do I find the creation time of a file? How do I use "rsh" without having the rsh hang around ... ? How do I truncate a file? Why doesn't find's "{}" symbol do what I want? How do I set the permissions on a symbolic link? How do I "undelete" a file? How can a process detect if it's running in the background? Why doesn't redirecting a loop work as intended? (Bourne shell) How do I run ... interactive programs from a shell script ... ? How do I find the process ID of a program with a particular name ... ? How do I check the exit status of a remote command executed via "rsh"? Is it possible to pass shell variable settings into an awk program? How do I get rid of zombie processes that persevere? How do I get lines from a pipe ... instead of only in larger blocks? How do I get the date into a filename? Why do some scripts start with #! ... ?
News Headers How do I read characters ... without requiring the user to hit RETURN? How do I check to see if there are characters to be read ... ? How do I find the name of an open file? How can an executing program determine its own pathname? How do I use popen() to open a process for reading AND writing? How do I sleep() in a C program for less than one second? How can I get setuid shell scripts to work? How can I find out which user or process has a file open ... ? How do I keep track of people who are fingering me? Is it possible to reconnect a process to a terminal ... ? Is it possible to "spy" on a terminal ... ?
News Headers Can shells be classified into categories? How do I "include" one shell script from within another shell script? Do all shells have aliases? Is there something else that can be used? How are shell variables assigned? How can I tell if I am running an interactive shell? What "dot" files do the various shells use? I would like to know more about the differences ... ?
