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Index: U
- UIDs : (see user IDs)
- ul command : How nroff Makes Bold and Underline; How to Remove It
- ulimit -f command : Limiting File Sizes
- umask command
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- Automatic Setup When You Enter/Exit a Directory
- User, Group, and World
- Setting an Exact umask
- Shell Lockfile
- setting in shell scripts : Subshells
- umask value : Running Install
- uname command
- unarchiving : (see archives)
- uncluttering logins : Unclutter Logins: Show Login Messages Just Once
- uncompress command
- undelete program : Quick Descriptions of What's on the Disc
- underlined text : How nroff Makes Bold and Underline; How to Remove It
- underscore (_) in filenames : Filenames
- undoing (vi editor)
- unedit command (SCCS) : SCCS Basics
- unexpand command
- unexpand script : Save Space with Tab Characters
- uniq command
- UNIX
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- advantages
- binary programs : Compiling Source Code
- definition of priority : Know When to Be "nice" to OTher Users...and When
- drawbacks of : What's Wrong with UNIX
- flexible handling of TAB characters : How UNIX Handles TAB Characters
- identifying versions : Which Version Am I Using?
- networking and communications utilities : UNIX Networking and Communications
- platforms : Shrink-Wrapped Software for UNIX
- time on : Which Time Is It?
- two main branches of : How We Made It This Far (Back?)
- versions of : About UNIX Versions
- unkillable processes, cleaning up : Cleaning Up an Unkillable Process
- unlimit coredumpsize command : Limiting File Sizes
- unlink command : Using unlink to Remove a File with a Strange Name
- unlinking files : Unlinking Open Files Isn't a Good Idea
- unprintable characters : (see special characters)
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- codes for writing : Special Character Codes
- unprintable files : Page Through Compressed, RCS, Unprintable Files
- unset variable errors : Choosing the Shell Run (We Hope) by at
- unsetenv command : What Environment Variables Are Good For
- unshar program
- unshar software : Unsharring the Sources
- untarring software : Untarring the Sources
- unterrupt characters : Setting Your Erase, Kill, and Interrupt Characters
- until loops : Looping Until a Command Succeeds
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- in Bourne shells : Looping Until a Command Succeeds
- examples : Looping Until a Command Succeeds
- while loops compared to : Looping Until a Command Fails
- updateb script : Finding Files (Much) Faster with a find Database
- uppercase
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- pathname in : Installing a Single Program
- without CAPS LOCK : Typing in Uppercase Without CAPS LOCK
- uptime command : Checking System Load: uptime
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- average reported by : The CPU
- Usenet : UNIX Networking and Communications
- $USER
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- examples : Automating Your Own Calendar
- user dictionaries : (see dictionary files)
- USER environment variable
- user IDs (UIDs) : Managing Processes: Overall Concepts
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- file access : File Access Permissions
- user time
- user's login shell, killing : Destroying Processes with kill
- user-defined signal : (see USR1 (user-defined) signal)
- user-state CPU time : Why Is the System So Slow?
- username field in crontab entries : Execution Scheduling
- users
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- Searching by Owner and Group
- (see also groups)
- classes of : User Communities
- effect on system performance : User Communities
- ownership : (see ownership, file)
- SUID bit
- /usr directory
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- /usr/bin directory
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- programs in : Internal and External Commands
- in search paths : Shell Search Paths
- /usr/include, header files in : Functions, Libraries, and Header Files
- /usr/lib/crontab file : Execution Scheduling
- /usr/lib/crontab.local file : Execution Scheduling
- /usr/local directory : Installing Everything Using the Defaults
- /usr/tmp directory : Why Both /tmp and /usr/tmp?
- USR1 (user-defined) signal : What Are Signals?
- utilities, combining : Everyone Should Learn Some Shell Developing
- UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX copy)
- uudecode command : Using tar to Create and Unpack Archives
- uuencode command : Using tar to Create and Unpack Archives
- uuencoded files : My Favorite Is !$
- UUNET : UUCP
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