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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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any Rock Ridge extensions.
-T sector
To help examine multisession images that have already been
burned to a multisession CD. Use the specified sector number
as the start of the session to display.
-x path
Extract the file at the specified path to standard output.
isosize
isosize [option] iso9660-img-file
Display the length of an ISO9660 filesystem contained in the speci-
fied file. The image file can be a normal file or a block device such
as /dev/sr0. With no options, the length is displayed in bytes. Only
one of the two options can be specified.
Options
-d num
Display the size in bytes divided by num.
-x Display the number of blocks and the block size (although the
output refers to blocks as sectors).
isovfy
isovfy isoimage
Verify the integrity of the specified ISO9660 image and write the
results to standard output.
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dictionary. Display unrecognized words at the top of the screen,
accompanied by possible correct spellings, and allow editing via a
series of commands.
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