July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
Content preview from Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
ping | 347
Linux
Commands
This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition
Copyright © 2006 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.
QUOTING_STYLE
Specify how output should be quoted (see --quoting-style).
PATCH_GET
Specify whether patch should retrieve missing or read-only
files from source control (see -g).
POSIXLY_CORRECT
When set, patch conforms more strictly to the POSIX stan-
dard (see --posix).
VERSION_CONTROL, PATCH_VERSION_CONTROL
Specify what method to use in naming backups (see -V).
pathchk
pathchk [option] filenames
Determine validity and portability of filenames. Specifically, deter-
mine if all directories within the path are searchable and if the
length of the filenames is acceptable.
Options
--help
Print a help message and then exit.
-p, --portability
Check portability for all POSIX systems.
--version
Print version information and then exit.
perl
perl
A powerful text-processing language that combines many of the
most useful features of shell programs, C, awk, and sed, as well as
adding extended features of its own. For more information, see
Learning Perl and Programming Perl (both from O’Reilly).
pidof
pidof [options] programs
Display the process IDs of the listed program or programs. pidof is
actually a symbolic link to killall5.
Options
-o pids
Omit all processes with the specified process IDs.
-s Return a single process ID.
-x Also return process IDs of shells running the named scripts.
ping
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.