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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showkey command, 423
showmount command, 29, 424
shred command, 424
shutdown command, 425
sync command and, 454
sin function (awk), 787
site command (ftp), 169
size command, 425
ftp, 169
skill command, 426
slabtop command, 426
slattach command, 427
sleep command, 427
ksh93, 686
usleep, 496
SLIP (Serial Line IP), 26
slocate command, 428
SMTP (Simple Mail Transport
Protocol), 21
snext command (ex), 748
snice command, 429
SNMP (Simple Network Management
Protocol), 21
sockets
gawk, for coproceses, 778
soft (symbolic) links, 249
sort command, 429
sound cards
advanced configuration with
alsactl, 38
command-line ALSA mixer, 39
raw MIDI files, reading/writing, 39
sound, Enlightened Sound
Daemon, 139–142
sound files
CDDA, converting to WAV, 70–73
Compact Disc audio files, recording
in different formats, 73–75
MIDI, playing with aplaymidi, 42
playing with aplay, 41
recording MIDI files, using ALSA, 46
recording using ALSA, 46
Source Code Control System
(SCCS), 795
source code for Linux, 6
source code management
systems, 792–797
Arch, 796
CSSC, 796
CVS, 795
monotone, 797
RCS, 795
SCSS, 795
Subversion, 796
terminology, 792–794
usage models, 794
source command (bash), 686
source command (ex), 748
source files
examining with ctags, 106
SourceForge web site, 2
space character class, 699
spacing and syntax, xv
spec file, RPM packages, ...
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