A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

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Prentice Hall, 2010 - Computers - 1034 pages
To be effective, every Linux user and administrator needs to work from the command line. Linux is legendary for its massive collection of command line utility programs, each with multiple options, switches, and configuration files. Where does a user start? With Mark G. Sobell's A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming. It has been the world's #1 Linux book for four years because of Sobell's singular ability to focus on the most useful utilities, present their most valuable options, and deliver hundreds of powerful examples. Sobell has updated his classic, adding even more features available in no competitive book. This new edition offers A 350-page command reference with practical examples for every command A 150-page primer on Linux shell programming Detailed coverage of awk and sed, plus both the vim and emacs editors A brand-new primer on using Perl to automate complex, time-consuming tasks New coverage of the Mac OS X command line and file utilities: information that will help Linux and Mac OS X users cross platforms painlessly New coverage of rsync, a powerful, underused Linux/OSX utility that can be used for automating backups An unparalleled index, now fully revised and expanded with new File Tree and Utility indices that make it even easier for readers to find what they need Both an outstanding tutorial and a rock-solid reference this is the book that working Linux users will turn to day after day, year after year

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Contents

The History of UNIX and GNULinux
2
Overview of Linux
11
Chapter Summary
18
Copyright

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About the author (2010)

Mark G. Sobell is President of Sobell Associates Inc., a consulting firm that special-izes in UNIX/Linux training, support, and custom software development. He has more than twenty-five years of experience working with UNIX and Linux systems and is the author of many best-selling books, including "A Practical Guide to Fedora(TM) and Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R), Fourth Edition"; "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux(R), Second Edition"; and "A Practical Guide to UNIX(R)for Mac OS(R) X Users "(coauthored with Peter Seebach), all from Prentice Hall; and "A Practical Guide to the UNIX System" from Addison-Wesley.

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