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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PCI (Peripheral Component
Interconnect) devices,
listing, 264
PCMCIA sockets
card daemon, 68
controlling with cardctl
command, 67
PDF (Portable Document Format)
language, GhostScript
interpreter, 198
pending jobs, listing, 51
Peripheral Component Interconnect
(PCI) devices, listing, 264
perl command, 347
permissions, changing for files, 86
permuted indexes, 362–363
pgawk program, 778
pidof command, 347
ping command, 27, 347
pinky command, 349
pmap command, 350
PNM (Portable aNyMap) format, 400
point (Emacs cursor), 705
Point-to-Point Protocol (see PPP and
related commands)
popd command (bash), 660, 674
portmap command, 350
portmap daemon (RPC), 28, 30
positional specifier (gawk), 790
POSIX
distinction between “special” built-in
commands and
nonspecial, 650
pattern-matching
metacharacters, 700
PostScript language, GhostScript
interpreter, 198
poweroff command, 350
PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol), 21, 26
pppd command, 26, 351
pr command, 352
praliases command, 354
precision format specifier (printf and
sprintf), 790
preprocessor, C language, 97–103
preserve command (ex), 746
previous command (ex), 746
print character class, 699
print command
awk, 786
ex, 746
ksh, 674
printenv command, 354
printf command, 355
awk, 786
format specifiers, 789
bash and ksh93, 675
printing commands, 9, 17
banner, 58
checking print spool queue ...
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