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Need Good UNIX Reference
Post 20196 by merlin on Monday 22nd of April 2002 11:59:15 PM
04-23-2002
Apart from books don't forget the internet can be very useful. Some books that have helped me are "Complete UNIX guide", "Essential System Administration" Apart from that there are a few others, depends what kinds of things you need to learn/know first.
Example I needed to learn administraion and networking (still do
) and backups. Started with a few books like the above sat down infront of a Solaris box and played around.
Personally the best way for me was to set myself a little task learn how to do it. Then go to a test machine and try it in practice. Of course this only works if you have a machine that you can crash and burn. If there's no crash and burn machines be very careful with what you do to a machine.
Don't forget the 'man' pages are a good place to start with Unix. (In case you don't know about the man command it stands for manuals, to run the command something like this "man ifconfig" that will show the manual/help pages (whatever you want to call them) for the ifconfig command)
Don't forget search engines (www.google.com). They are always a good little tool for finding stuff. A good website is docs.sun.com others will have others but I like that one.
Or you could just hit work up for some starter courses and learn the easy way
Example I needed to learn administraion and networking (still do
) and backups. Started with a few books like the above sat down infront of a Solaris box and played around.Personally the best way for me was to set myself a little task learn how to do it. Then go to a test machine and try it in practice. Of course this only works if you have a machine that you can crash and burn. If there's no crash and burn machines be very careful with what you do to a machine.
Don't forget the 'man' pages are a good place to start with Unix. (In case you don't know about the man command it stands for manuals, to run the command something like this "man ifconfig" that will show the manual/help pages (whatever you want to call them) for the ifconfig command)
Don't forget search engines (www.google.com). They are always a good little tool for finding stuff. A good website is docs.sun.com others will have others but I like that one.
Or you could just hit work up for some starter courses and learn the easy way
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gnome-desktop-item-edit(1) User Commands gnome-desktop-item-edit(1) NAME
gnome-desktop-item-edit - GNOME Desktop file editor SYNOPSIS
gnome-desktop-item-edit [--create-new] filename DESCRIPTION
gnome-desktop-item-edit is the GNOME Desktop file editor, which you can use to create or edit the .desktop (known as desktop) file. GNOME uses a standard desktop file specification as proposed by freedesktop.org. A desktop file consists of a number of name-value pairs that define how a desktop should organize a particular application. As this is defined as an open standard, integration of applications into GNOME Desktop is relatively straightforward. A basic entry in the desktop file must start with a tag called [Desktop Entry]. It can then have a number of name-value pairs as defined by the standard. The minimum entries are as follows: Name the name of the application Comment a textual description of the application which is displayed as a tooltip message by gnome-panel. When set appropri- ately, the comment can be localized within the same file. Exec the name of the actual executable Icon the file name of the icon image Type the desktop file type Categories a multi-string field which is used by gnome-panel to group applications into the appropriate categories. These desktop files provide the information to gnome-panel, which places the application in the appropriate locations on the panel. In a similar manner, the GNOME file manager (Nautilus) uses information from the desktop files to display the 'applications:///' view. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --create-new Creates a new .desktop file. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: filename The name of the desktop file to be edited or viewed. EXAMPLES
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The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-item-edit Executable for GNOME Desktop file editor /usr/share/applications/ Location of system desktop files ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-panel | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gnome-panel(1), nautilus(1), attributes(5) Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. NOTES
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