Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

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Preface

This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition

Copyright © 2006 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

Organization of This Book

This book is a reference to the most important commands and utilities available

on Linux systems.

Chapter 1, Introduction, explains Linux’s strengths and the key aspects of working

with Linux, and lays out the scope of this book.

Chapter 2, System and Network Administration Overview, introduces TCP/IP

networking and the Linux commands used for system administration and

network management.

Chapter 3, Linux Commands, is the core of the book, a reference listing of

hundreds of the most important shell commands available on Linux.

Chapter 4, Boot Methods, covers the commands used to control booting on Linux

and dual-booting, particularly LILO, GRUB, and initrd.

Chapter 5, Package Management, explains the apt series of commands that

manage updating and installation on Debian, and the RPM system used by Red

Hat/Fedora, Novell/SUSE, and several other distributions of Linux.

Chapter 6, The Bash Shell and Korn Shell, documents the default command-line

interpreter on Linux, Bash, and another popular interpreter, ksh.

Chapter 7, Pattern Matching, introduces regular expressions and explains how

different tools interpret these powerful tools for searching and text processing.

Chapter 8, The Emacs Editor, provides reference information on Emacs, a text

editor and ...