
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
Revised
"First Sobell taught people how to use Linux . . . now he teaches you the power of Linux. A must-have book for anyone who wants to take Linux to the next level."
-Jon "maddog" Hall, Executive Director, Linux International New Chapters on Python and MySQL-Covers Perl, too- Learn from hundreds of realistic, high-quality examples, and become a true Linux command-line guru
- NEW Covers busybox, Midnight Commander, screen, and sshfs/curlftpf
- Covers the Mac OS X command line and its unique tools
- 295-page reference covers 98 utilities, including Mac OS X commands
- A MySQL chapter to get you started with this ubiquitous relational database management system (RDBMS)
- A masterful introduction to Python for system administrators and power users
- New coverage of the busybox single binary collection of utilities, the screen terminal session manager/multiplexer, and the mc (Midnight Commander) textual file manager, plus a new chapter on using ssh for secure communication
- In-depth coverage of the bash and tcsh shells, including a complete discussion of environment, inheritance, and process locality, plus coverage of basic and advanced shell programming
- Practical explanations of 98 core utilities, from aspell to xargs, including printf and sshfs/curlftpfs, PLUS Mac OS X-specific utilities from ditto to SetFile
- Expert guidance on automating remote backups using rsync
- Dozens of system security tips, including step-by-step walkthroughs of implementing secure communications using ssh and scp
- Tips and tricks for customizing the shell, including step values, sequence expressions, the eval builtin, and implicit command-line continuation
- High-productivity editing techniques using vim and emacs
- A comprehensive, 295-page command reference section covering 98 utilities, including find, grep, sort, and tar
- Instructions for updating systems using apt-get and yum
- And much more, including coverage of BitTorrent, gawk, sed, find, sort, bzip2, and regular expressions
ISBN/UPC:
9780133085044
Product:
Book, Paperback
Title:
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
Edition:
3, Revised
Contributors
- Author: Mark G. Sobell
Publisher:
Pages:
1216
Languages:
English
Categories
Specification:
9.0 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches, 3.6 pounds

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