July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Program Maintenance
Searching
Shell Programming
Command Action
cvs Manage different versions (revisions) of source files.
ctags Generate symbol list for use with the vi editor.
etags Generate symbol list for use with the Emacs editor.
gdb GNU debugger.
gprof Display object file’s profile data.
make Maintain, update, and regenerate related programs and files.
nm Display object file’s symbol table.
objcopy Copy and translate object files.
objdump Display information about object files.
patch Apply patches to source code.
pmap Print the memory map of a process.
size Print the size of an object file in bytes.
strace Trace system calls and signals.
strip Strip symbols from an object file.
Command Action
apropos Search manpages for topic.
egrep Extended version of grep.
fgrep Search files for literal words.
find Search the system for files by name and take a range of possible actions.
grep Search files for text patterns.
locate Search a preexisting database to show where files are on the system.
look Search file for string at the beginning of lines.
strings Search binary files for text patterns.
whereis Find command.
which Print pathname of a command.
Command Action
basename Remove leading directory components from a path.
echo Repeat command-line arguments on the output.
envsubst ...
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