Book description
If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, then Linux Pocket Guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. This thoroughly updated 20th anniversary edition explains more than 200 Linux commands, including new commands for file handling, package management, version control, file format conversions, and more.
In this concise guide, author Daniel Barrett provides the most useful Linux commands grouped by functionality. Whether you're a novice or an experienced user, this practical book is an ideal reference for the most important Linux commands.
You'll learn:
- Essential concepts—commands, shells, users, and the filesystem
- File commands-creating, organizing, manipulating, and processing files of all kinds
- Sysadmin basics-superusers, processes, user management, and software installation
- Filesystem maintenance-disks, RAID, logical volumes, backups, and more
- Networking commands-working with hosts, network connections, email, and the web
- Getting stuff done-everything from math to version control to graphics and audio
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- First Things First
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1. Essential Concepts
- What’s Linux?
- The Structure of Commands
- Users and Superusers
- The Filesystem
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Selected Features of Bash
- Which Shell Are You Running?
- Pattern Matching
- Brace Expansion
- Shell Variables
- Search Path
- Aliases
- Built-in Commands
- Input, Output, and Redirection
- Combined Commands
- Preventing Evaluation
- Command-line Editing
- Command History
- Filename Completion
- Shell Job Control
- Running Multiple Shells at Once
- Killing a Command in Progress
- Terminating a Shell
- Tailoring Shell Behavior
- Getting Help
- 2. File Commands
- 3. System Administration Basics
- 4. Filesystem Maintenance
- 5. Networking Commands
- 6. Getting Stuff Done
- Index
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Linux Pocket Guide, 4th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2024
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781098157968
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