Book description
The Command Line Interface (CLI) is your window into the soul of Linux. At the CLI, you learn how Linux thinks and why it behaves as it does. However, the CLI has a reputation for being difficult to learn and tends to frighten the uninitiated. In CLI for Noobies, Joe Barr explains why the CLI provides the easiest, quickest way to do whatever needs to be done. This book is aimed directly at those just coming to Linux from other environments and covers topics that will make them more comfortable running Linux on their desktop. Topics include Shell commands, applications and tools, networking and security, as well as fun and games.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Overview
- Preface
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1. In the Shell
- 1. What the Hell Is a Shell?
- 2. Alias, Cat, Grep, and Pipe
- 3. All About Files
- 4. Man for Hier: The File System Hierarchy
- 5. Everything’s a File
- 6. Helpful Tips and Tricks
- 7. Permissions: Mother, May I?
- 8. Directory Assistance, How May I Help You?
- 9. whatis apropos?
- 10. background, foreground, suspend
- 11. Watch That File
- 12. Sudo Voodoo
- 13. Test This Command
- 14. Not Your Father’s Batch
- 15. Need Redirection?
- 16. Sort Like This
- 17. Symbolic Links
- 18. Taming a Wild Mount
- 19. Sharing More with Sysctl
- 20. Pimp Your Prompt
- 21. Environmental Issues
- 22. The Lowdown on Top
- 23. Who Sed That?
- 24. Shutdown
- 25. ldconfig and Friends
- 26. locate, slocate, and rlocate
- 27. Information, Please
- 28. GNU Find
- 29. lsof
- 30. Shell Programming
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2. Applications and Tools
- 31. Making and Melting tarballs
- 32. The Magic Mantra: configure, make, and make install
- 33. Got Backup?
- 34. Don’t Forget a Birthday
- 35. cal and calendar
- 36. CheckInstall
- 37. Hack the Comment
- 38. Lay Down the Law with Edict
- 39. Hdparm and the Zen of Data Transfer
- 40. Hex Dump Unlocks Mysteries
- 41. Ispell
- 42. Surfing with Lynx
- 43. A Little Mirdir, My Dear?
- 44. Import, Display, Mogrify
- 45. Rec, Play, and Nice
- 46. Say What, Saytime
- 47. Antiword
- 48. Looking for Strings in All the Wrong Places
- 49. Recycle Your Shell
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3. Networking and Security
- 50. Dig ifconfig and Ping
- 51. FTP Moves Files
- 52. The Key to GnuPG
- 53. Sending and Reading Secret Mail
- 54. Cryptographic Signatures
- 55. OpenSSH
- 56. Passwd and Passwords
- 57. John the Ripper
- 58. Route
- 59. More About ifconfig
- 60. Netcat
- 61. Tcpdump
- 62. The Word on Wget
- 63. Rsync for Backups
- 64. Trojanscan
- 4. Fun and Games
Product information
- Title: CLI for Noobies: A Primer on the Linux Command Line
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2007
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780132361705
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