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<h2><a name="contents"></a>Contents</h2>
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<li><a href="ch-about.html">1 About this manual</a>
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<li><a href="ch-about.html#s-acknowldgements">1.1 Acknowledgements</a>
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<li><a href="ch-introduction.html">2 Introduction</a>
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<li><a href="ch-introduction.html#s-introduction-debian">2.1 What is Debian?</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-introduction.html#s-introduction-DFSG">2.2 What's free software?</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-introduction.html#s-introduction-how">2.3 How to Read This Book</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-introduction.html#s-introduction-ldp">2.4 The Linux Documentation Project</a>
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<li><a href="ch-start.html">3 Getting started</a>
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<li><a href="ch-start.html#s-start-multi">3.1 A multiuser, multitasking operating system</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-start.html#s-start-login">3.2 Logging in</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-start.html#s-start-keys">3.3 Keys</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-start.html#s-start-commandline">3.4 Command history and editing the command line</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-start.html#s-start-root">3.5 Logging in as root</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-start.html#s-start-VC">3.6 Virtual consoles</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-start.html#s-start-shutdown">3.7 Shutting down</a>
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<li><a href="ch-basics.html">4 The Basics</a>
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<li><a href="ch-basics.html#s-basics-commandline">4.1 The command line and <samp>man</samp> pages</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-basics.html#s-basics-files">4.2 Files and Directories</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-basics.html#s-basics-processes">4.3 Processes</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-basics.html#s-basics-shell">4.4 The shell</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-basics.html#s-basics-jobs">4.5 Managing processes with Bash</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-basics.html#s-basics-bash">4.6 A few Bash features</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-basics.html#s-basics-identity">4.7 Managing your identity</a>
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<li><a href="ch-docs.html">5 Reading documentation and getting help</a>
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<li><a href="ch-docs.html#s-docs-sources">5.1 Kinds of documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-docs.html#s-docs-info">5.2 Using info</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-docs.html#s-docs-textfiles">5.3 Viewing text files with more and less</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-docs.html#s-docs-howtos">5.4 HOWTOs</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-docs.html#s-docs-support">5.5 Getting help from a person</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-docs.html#s-docs-sysinfo">5.6 Getting information from the system</a>
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<li><a href="ch-shell.html">6 Using the shell</a>
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<li><a href="ch-shell.html#s-shell-variables">6.1 Environment variables</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-shell.html#s-shell-path">6.2 Where commands live: the <samp>PATH</samp> variable</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-shell.html#s-custom_shell-aliases">6.3 Aliases and shell functions</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-shell.html#s-shell-io">6.4 Controlling input and output</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-shell.html#s-shell-modifiers">6.5 Specifying how and when to run commands</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-shell.html#s-shell-wildcards">6.6 Filename expansion (&quot;Wildcards&quot;)</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-shell.html#s6.7">6.7 Interactive/non-interactive</a>
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<li><a href="ch-files.html">7 More on files</a>
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<li><a href="ch-files.html#s-files-permissions">7.1 Permissions</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-files.html#s-files-tour">7.2 What files are on my system? Where can I put my own files?</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-files.html#s-file-manager">7.3 Using a filemanager</a>
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<li><a href="ch-editor.html">8 Creating and editing text files</a>
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<li><a href="ch-editor.html#s-editor-textfile">8.1 What's a text file?</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-editor.html#s-editor-editor">8.2 Text editors</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-editor.html#s-editor-vi">8.3 Creating and editing a text file with <code>vi</code></a>
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<li><a href="ch-custom_shell.html">9 Customizing the shell</a>
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<li><a href="ch-custom_shell.html#s-custom_shell-etc">9.2 System-wide vs. user-specific configuration</a>
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<li><a href="ch-X.html#s-X-starting">10.1 Starting the X environment</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-X.html#s-X-intro">10.2 Intro: What is X</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-X.html#s-X-basics">10.3 Basic X operations</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-X.html#s-X-startup">10.4 Customizing your X startup</a>
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<li><a href="ch-text_tools.html">11 Text tools</a>
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<li><a href="ch-text_tools.html#s-text_tools-regexps">11.1 Regular expressions</a>
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<li><a href="ch-file_tools.html">12 File tools</a>
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<li><a href="ch-file_tools.html#s-file_tools-backup">12.1 Backup tools</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-file_tools.html#s-file_tools-compression">12.2 File compression with <samp>gzip</samp></a></li>
<li><a href="ch-file_tools.html#s-file_tools-split">12.3 Splitting files into smaller pieces</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-file_tools.html#s-file_tools-find">12.4 Finding files</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-file_tools.html#s-file_tools-file">12.5 Determining a file's contents</a>
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<li><a href="ch-disks.html">13 Using disks</a>
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<li><a href="ch-disks.html#s-disks-concepts">13.1 Concepts</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-disks.html#s-disks-mount">13.2 <samp>mount</samp> and <samp>/etc/fstab</samp></a></li>
<li><a href="ch-disks.html#s-network-ppp">13.3 PPP</a>
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<li><a href="ch-dpkg.html">14 Removing and installing software</a>
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<li><a href="ch-dpkg.html#s-dpkg-dpkg">14.1 The <code>dpkg</code> package utility</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-dpkg.html#s-dpkg-what">14.2 What a package maintenance utility does</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-dpkg.html#s-dpkg-apt">14.3 Apt</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-dpkg.html#s-dpkg-dselect">14.4 Using dselect.</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-dpkg.html#s-dpkg-commandline">14.5 Using dpkg manually</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-dpkg.html#s-dpkg-compiling">14.6 Compiling software yourself</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-dpkg.html#s-dpkg-proprietary">14.7 Proprietary software not in .deb format</a>
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<li><a href="ch-troubleshooting.html">15 Troubleshooting</a>
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<li><a href="ch-troubleshooting.html#s-troubleshooting-frozen">15.1 Debian is frozen or crashed!</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-troubleshooting.html#s-troubleshooting-termgarbage">15.2 My terminal isn't behaving properly</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-troubleshooting.html#s-troubleshooting-vi">15.3 The computer beeps when I press a key, and my screen shows a text file and/or a lot of <samp>~</samp> symbols.</a>
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<li><a href="ch-advanced.html">16 Advanced topics</a>
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<li><a href="ch-advanced.html#s-advanced-scripting">16.1 Introduction to shell scripting</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-advanced.html#s-advanced-files">16.2 Advanced files</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-advanced.html#s-advanced-kernel">16.3 Compiling the kernel</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-advanced.html#s-advanced-security">16.4 A few words on security</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-advanced.html#s-advanced-programming">16.5 Programming on Linux</a>
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<li><a href="ch-next.html">17 Where to from here?</a>
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<li><a href="ch-next.html#s-next-manuals">17.1 Other Debian manuals to read</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-next.html#s-next-resources">17.2 Other resources</a>
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<li><a href="ch-helping.html">18 Contributing to Debian: How can I help?</a>
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<li><a href="ch-helping.html#s-helping-bugs">18.1 Submit bug reports</a></li>
<li><a href="ch-helping.html#s-helping-other">18.2 Other things</a>
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<li><a href="ap-apps_appendix.html">A A brief survey of available applications</a>
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<li><a href="ap-apps_appendix.html#s-A_apps-whatever">A.1 (Subheadings could copy the structure of the menu system)</a>
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<li><a href="ap-components_appendix.html">B Summary of GNU/Linux system components</a><li><a href="ap-booting_appendix.html">C Appendix C: Booting the system</a><li><a href="ap-misc_appendix.html">D Miscellaneous</a>
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<li><a href="ap-misc_appendix.html#s-unix-history">D.1 Unix History</a></li>
<li><a href="ap-misc_appendix.html#sD.2">D.2 GNU/Linux History</a></li>
<li><a href="ap-misc_appendix.html#sD.3">D.3 The Linux kernel's version numbering</a></li>
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