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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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Linux
Commands
This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition
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s Silently include common lines.
v Verbosely include common lines.
q Quit.
sed
sed [options] [command] [files]
Stream editor. Edit one or more files without user interaction. See
Chapter 10 for more information.
sendmail
sendmail [flags] [address...]
System administration command. sendmail is a mail transfer agent
(MTA) or, more simply, a mail router. It accepts mail from a user’s
mail program, interprets the mail address, rewrites the address into
the proper form for the delivery program, and routes the mail to
the correct delivery program.
Command-line flags
-- End of options marker. Only addresses should follow this
option.
-Ac
Use local submission configuration file /etc/mail/submit.cf,
even when no mail is sent from the command line.
-Am
Use configuration file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, even when mail is
sent from the command line.
-Btype
Set message body type. Accepted values are 7BIT and
8BITMIME.
-bx
Set operation mode to x. Operation modes are:
a Run in ARPAnet mode.
d Run as a daemon.
D Run as a daemon, but remain in the foreground.
h Print persistent host status information.
H Purge expired entries from persistent host status
information.
i Initialize the alias database.
m Deliver mail (the default).
p Print the mail queue.
s Speak SMTP on input side.
t Run in test mode. ...
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