Preface
GNU/Linux is one of the most powerful and flexible operating systems in the world. In modern computing, there is absolutely no space where it is not used—from servers, portable computers, mobile phones, tablets to supercomputers, everything runs Linux. While there are beautiful and modern graphical interfaces available for it, the shell still remains the most flexible way of interacting with the system.
In addition to executing individual commands, a shell can follow commands from a script, which makes it very easy to automate tasks. Examples of such tasks are preparing reports, sending e-mails, performing maintenance, and so on. This book is a collection of chapters which contain recipes to demonstrate real-life usages of commands and ...
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