Well, that's it. I actually ended up including a lot more than I intended, especially in this last section. But, I guess that's not that unusual for me... I think that this has become less of a primer and more of a reference manual. Still, I think it will be useful as such. I just hope that there are some people who actually made it this far.

Of course, there are still many more UNIX commands that aren't here. And there are millions of creative ways to use these commands. I didn't include many of those creative uses since I don't know most of them myself.

In any case, I hope that the information in these files help to take away some of the mystery of UNIX and makes it easier for you to get around the system. More information on UNIX can be found in numerous books and in the online manual pages. For this text, I have primarily used three sources:

Online UNIX man pages

Dyson, Peter, The UNIX Desk Reference, SYBEX: Alameda, CA, 1996.

Sobell, Mark G., A Practical Guide to the UNIX System, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company: Redwood City, CA, 1989.

My thanks to Carlos Cimini for letting me borrow his UNIX Desk Reference book. This is really a very nice book that covers a lot of UNIX information. And as always, if there are any problems that you can't solve, ask one of the system administrators so that they can be stumped too.

Alright, you're probably thinking that I never shut up, so that's it. I'm finished. I'm outta here. Time to get back to work on that primer for common applications...