November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
36h 16m
English
book
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Fourth Edition
by Mark G. Sobell, Matthew Helmke
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Command Reference
The following tables list the utilities covered in this part of the book grouped by function and alphabetically within function. Although most of these are true utilities (programs that are separate from the shells), some are built into the shells (shell builtins). The sample utility on page 737 shows the format of the description of each utility in this part of the book.
Utilities That Display and Manipulate Files
aspell |
Checks a file for spelling errors—page 739 |
bzip2 |
Compresses or decompresses files—page 750 |
cat |
Joins and displays files—page 753 |
cmp |
Compares two files—page 766 |
comm |
Compares sorted files—page 768 |
cp |
Copies files—page 772 |
cpio |
Creates an archive, restores files from an archive, or copies a directory ... |
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