A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming - Mark G. Sobell

To be truly productive with Linux, mastering the shells and the command line is essential. This comprehensive manual by renowned Linux expert Mark Sobell provides insightful guidance on the tools system administrators, developers, and power users need most, and an outstanding day-to-day reference, all in one book.

This manual is 100 percent distribution and release agnostic, making it usable on any Linux system, now and in the future. It is packed with hundreds of high-quality examples, offering clear explanations and useful knowledge about everything from filesystems to shells, editors to utilities, and programming tools to regular expressions. Additionally, it includes a comprehensive command reference section for easy, fast access to instant answers.

Get the most useful, comprehensive Linux tutorial and reference in the form of A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming. It offers:

• Better, more realistic examples covering tasks you'll actually need to perform
• Deeper insight, based on Sobell's immense knowledge of every Linux nook and cranny
• More practical explanations of more than eighty core utilities, from aspell to xargs
• Techniques for implementing secure communications using ssh and scp, plus dozens of tips for making your system more secure
• A superior introduction to the Linux programming environment, including make, gcc, gdb, CVS, and much more
• Expert guidance on basic and advanced shell programming using bash and tcsh
• Tips and tricks for customizing the shell and using it interactively from the command line
• Thorough guides to vim and emacs, designed to help you get productive fast and maximize your editing efficiency
• Dozens of exercises to help you practice and gain confidence
• Instructions for using Apt, yum, and BitTorrent for keeping your system up to date automatically
• And much more, including coverage of gawk, sed, find, sort, b 2, and regular expressions

Author: Sobell, Mark G.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
Pages: 01003 (Encrypted )
On Sale: 2005-07-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780131478237
Category: Computers : Operating Systems - Linux