JavaScript: Unix Programming Guide

This is a guide for JavaScript or Node.js developer who'd like to get familiar with programing under Unix environment, and it's inspired by Advance programming in the Unix environment.

Audience

The Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system such as Linux is the common part of server side solution, and widely used by the companies all around the world. So this guide is for:

• Frontend developers, who want know more about server side operating system and programming.
• Backend developers, who may using Node.js or other kind of interpretive language, want to explore more *nix API with Node.js API.
• And the developers which want to learn with JavaScript instead of C.

Prerequisites

This tutorial expects basic understanding of programming language such as JavaScript and Python, etc. And there still be some knowledge of C.

Contents

• 1. UNIX System Overview
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 UNIX Architecture
  • 1.3 Logging In
  • 1.4 Files and Directories
  • 1.5 Input and Output
  • 1.6 Programs and Processes
  • 1.7 Error Handling
  • 1.8 User Identification
  • 1.9 Signals
  • 1.10 Time Values
  • 1.11 System Calls and Library Functions
  • 1.12 Summary