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Question is redundant but please advice
I am really really new to Unix. I'm lost with so many books around for different shell. I'm thinking of taking a course on Operating Systems but it contains a lot of Unix programming I think. For example, someone was talking about a "which" command. But I wasn't able to figure out what it does... Which book gives me ideas on such things? Please advice...
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How could you go wrong with a book called something like "UNIX for Dummies"?
"which" looks for a program on the $PATH and prints what it found. try the following... Code:
which which which man man which man man |
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Thanks
Also thanks for the which explanation. So if I want to implement a hypothetical uwhich command that immitates the original which command, would that come under shell programming? And finally, are there any unix simulators where i can do all this stuff or do you recommend me to install unix altogether? |
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What are you intending to simulate on? And what is your definition of UNIX? If I am to guess that you are using Microsoft Windows, then you could do worse than try Cygwin or even Microsoft's very own "Services For UNIX". I have also had great success running UNIX Version 7 on a PDP-11 emulator running on a Linux machine if that is what you mean. |
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I meant in C under Unix itself...
I was talking about simulators because generally they are easy to begin with. No hassles of installation. ANd my definition? Yeah, I know its an OS :P My system runs Windows XP on a single drive. What is the best way to run Unix now? Paritition the disk or there's some other way? |
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That would count as C programming.
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Cygwin runs as an application on XP. Alternatively download and burn Ubuntu's LiveCD and boot from that. |
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Well, yeah, I need to install even a simulator but I guess application installation is much easier than OS installation atleast according to me.
Anyways, I'm stuck here without any CDs or DVDs. Is it possible to boot from a LiveCd without actually burning it? Now don't kill me for this question. I'm just curious... |
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As far as I'm aware. However where are you going to store them? (CD's are notoriously read-only). You could use a USB stick as a drive and put them on that, or else mount an NFS export from another machine.
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