Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446 EAN: 9780131478237 ISBN: 0131478230 Label: Prentice Hall PTR Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1008 Publication Date: July 11, 2005 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Sales Rank: 6709 Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
Product DescriptionThe Most Useful Linux Tutorial and Reference Ever, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples Covering Every Linux Distribution!To be truly productive with Linux, you need to thoroughly master the shells and the command line. Until now, you had to buy two books to gain that mastery: a tutorial on fundamental Linux concepts and techniques, plus a separate reference. Worse, most Linux references offer little more than prettied-up man pages. Now, there's a far better solution. Renowned Linux expert Mark Sobell has brought together comprehensive, insightful guidance on the tools system administrators, developers, and power users need most, and an outstanding day-to-day reference, both in the same book.
This book is 100 percent distribution and release agnostic: You can use it on any Linux system, now and for years to come. What's more, it's packed with hundreds of high-quality examples: better examples than you-ll find in any other Linux guidebook. This is Linux from the ground up: the clearest explanations and most useful knowledge about everything from filesystems to shells, editors to utilities, and programming tools to regular expressions. And when you need instant answers, you-ll constantly turn to Sobell's comprehensive command reference section-organized and tabbed for easy, fast access!
Don't settle for yesterday-s Linux guidebook. Get the one book that meets today's challenges-and tomorrow-s!
A Practical Guide to Linux- Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming is the most useful, most comprehensive Linux tutorial and reference you can find. It's the only book to deliver
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, bzip2, and regular expressions
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A book that will help you become a Linux command line guru
This is a book that I have been looking for for a long time. I have been looking for a book that takes me into the command line world of Linux but in a methodical way describing all the little options, tips, tricks but also the principles that make Linux shell so powerful.
Book begins with a brief history of Linux and very informative, relevant overview of the system architecture.
It proceeds with the in depth, hands on walkthrogugh the environment, shells, and command line utilities. ... Read More
Rating: - Lots of stuff, but oriented toward scripting
The claim that this is a "practical guide to Linux commands . . ." is an overstatement. The coverage of commands is relatively minimal. This volume doesn't really get into any depth or go beyond basic commands. The Command Reference (Part V of the book) is incomplete. It definitely is not a guide to using Linux.
Several editors and a bit of programming are covered , though again the coverage is cursory.
Overall, this is probably an okay reference for experienced Linux users. ... Read More
Rating: - Comprehensive but overwhelming for a n00b
I found this book to be just ok - it covers the basics of Linux and many important/frequently used commands but I am remotely satisfied with this book because the author focuses on stuff that many users probably will find less useful.
The learning curve is quite steep if you're relatively new to Linux - the author is describing very basic stuff like GNU, Linux file systems, simple shell commands and such, and then suddenly rushes into complicated shell programming and scripts.
Rating: - Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
The book give a solution to one of the most biggest problem of a Linux junior Sys Admin:
How to automate tasks and decrease the amount of time that "waste" for
Regular operations.
Although from first look, the book content look like a "Boring Staff", after reading
It, the reader would improve his theoretical and practical capabilities -
And may help to itself to focus it the real job.
The book ... Read More
Rating: - It is what it says
This book is exactly what the title states - a practical guide to Linux commands, editors and shell programming. It doesn't teach you how to make all the server software run on your machine. But it does give an excellent and detailed explanation of the commands in the Bash and TC shells, and explains how to write shell scripts. The details the author goes into with the two most common editors (VI and EMACS) was just about right for me. He also has a 250 page reference section on each command in Linux. It's ... Read More
- A book that will help you become a Linux command line guru
- Lots of stuff, but oriented toward scripting
