Microsoft Office XP for Dummies or Classic Shell Scripting

Microsoft Office XP for Dummies

Author: Wallace Wang

Microsoft Office XP consists of several programs: a word processor (Word 2002), a spreadsheet program (Excel 2002), a presentation graphics program (PowerPoint 2002), a personal information organizer and e-mail client (Outlook 2002), and a database program (Access 2002). And depending on the version of Office XP that you get, you may have bonus programs that include a Web-page design and management application (FrontPage 2002).

Having so many programs at your disposal can be very intimidating, especially for the beginning user. Which program do you use for which task? How can you get information from one program into another? Which programs do you really need, and which ones can you safely ignore? Your questions will abound and confound!

Office XP For Dummies answers all these questions and more – in easy-to-understand terms and without all that computer-geek gibberish. It gently explains the basics for each program so that you can start using them right way. Here are a few of the topics covered in Office XP For Dummies:

• Getting acquainted with the Office XP interface

• Using Word to create reports and other fancy documents

• Setting up spreadsheets in Excel to help you in your business

• Creating slideshow presentations in PowerPoint

• Managing your e-mail, calendar, and contact information in Outlook

• Developing easy-to-use databases

• Designing awesome Web pages quickly and hassle-free

For beginners, Office XP For Dummies is the perfect overview of the entire Office XP suite; for more advanced users, itcontains many tips and tricks to make using all these different programs a breeze.

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Classic Shell Scripting

Author: Arnold Robbins

Shell scripting skills never go out of style. It's the shellthat unlocks the real potential of Unix. Shell scripting isessential for Unix users and system administrators-a way toquickly harness and customize the full power of any Unixsystem. With shell scripts, you can combine the fundamentalUnix text and file processing commands to crunch data andautomate repetitive tasks. But beneath this simple promiselies a treacherous ocean of variations in Unix commands andstandards. Classic Shell Scripting is written to help youreliably navigate these tricky waters.

Writing shell scripts requires more than just a knowledge ofthe shell language, it also requires familiarity with theindividual Unix programs: why each one is there, how to usethem by themselves, and in combination with the otherprograms. The authors are intimately familiar with the tipsand tricks that can be used to create excellent scripts, aswell as the traps that can make your best effort a bad shellscript. With Classic Shell Scripting you'll avoid hours ofwasted effort. You'll learn not only write useful shellscripts, but how to do it properly and portably.

The ability to program and customize the shell quickly,reliably, and portably to get the best out of any individualsystem is an important skill for anyone operating andmaintaining Unix or Linux systems. Classic Shell Scriptinggives you everything you need to master these essentialskills.

Table of Contents:

1	Background	1
2	Getting started	8
3	Searching and substitutions	30
4	Text processing tools	67
5	Pipelines can do amazing things	87
6	Variables, making decisions, and repeating actions	109
7	Input and output, files, and command evaluation	140
8	Production scripts	177
9	Enough awk to be dangerous	223
10	Working with files	267
11	Extended example : merging user databases	308
12	Spellchecking	325
13	Processes	352
14	Shell portability issues and extensions	381
15	Secure shell scripts : getting started	413