- Practical guide to linux commands editors and shell programming
- Practical guide to linux commands editors and shell programming
- Practical guide to linux commands editors and shell programming
- Practical guide to linux commands editors and shell programming
- A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
Practical guide to linux commands editors and shell programming
A Book by Mark G Sobell
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
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- A quick introduction to 30+ useful utilities
- An introduction to the Linux filesystem and its features
- One chapter on vim and one chapter on emacs
- A chapter on programming tools including sections on gcc, make, gdb, and CVS
- Detailed coverage of more than 80 Linux utilities with many examples (Part V)
- An introductory chapter on using the shells
- A chapter on using bash (the Bourne Again Shell) interactively (from the command line)
- A chapter covering bash as a programming language (to write shell scripts)
- A chapter about how to use tcsh (the TC Shell) interactively (from the command line) and as a programming language
- A chapter on the gawk pattern processing language
- An appendix on regular expressions
- An appendix on keeping the system up-to-date using Apt, yum, and BitTorrent
- A glossary with over 500 entries
- See the Preface for more details of coverage
Download code from the book.
Read a brief biography of Mark Sobell.
View a list of Linux Links.
View answers to even-numbered exercises.
Review a list of errata for the book.
Send a note to Mark Sobell at mgs@sobell.com.
Practical guide to linux commands editors and shell programming
A Book by Mark G. Sobell
A Practical Guide to Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Second Edition
Available December 1, 2009
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- Now covering the Mac OS X command-line interface (CLI) in addition to Linux
- A quick introduction to 30+ useful utilities
- An introduction to the Linux filesystem and its features
- One chapter on vim and one chapter on emacs
- A new chapter on writing Perl scripts.
- Detailed coverage of 100 Linux and OS X utilities with many examples (Part V)
- An introductory chapter on using the shells
- A chapter on using bash (the Bourne Again Shell) interactively (from the command line)
- A chapter covering bash as a programming language (to write shell scripts)
- A chapter about how to use tcsh (the TC Shell) interactively (from the command line) and as a programming language
- A new section on how to use rsync to copy files between systems and create backups
- A chapter on the gawk pattern processing language
- An appendix on regular expressions
- An appendix on keeping a system up-to-date using apt-get, yum, and BitTorrent
- A glossary with over 500 entries
- See the Preface for more details of coverage
Read a brief biography of Mark Sobell.
View a list of Linux Links.
View answers to even-numbered exercises.
Review a list of errata for the book.
Send a note to Mark Sobell at mgs@sobell.com.
Practical guide to linux commands editors and shell programming
A Book by Mark G. Sobell
A Practical Guide to Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Third Edition
Available September 24, 2012
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- Covers the Mac OS X command-line interface (CLI) in addition to Linux
- A quick introduction to 30+ useful utilities
- An introduction to the Linux filesystem and its features
- One chapter on vim and one chapter on emacs
- A new chapter on Python
- A new chapter on setting up and running a MySQL database
- A chapter on writing Perl scripts
- Detailed coverage of 98 Linux and OS X utilities with many examples (Part VI)
- An introductory chapter on using the shells
- A chapter on using bash (the Bourne Again Shell) interactively (from the command line)
- A chapter covering bash as a programming language (to write shell scripts)
- A chapter about how to use tcsh (the TC Shell) interactively (from the command line) and as a programming language
- A chapter on how to use rsync to copy files between systems and create backups
- A chapter on the gawk pattern processing language
- An appendix on regular expressions
- An appendix on keeping a system up-to-date using apt-get, yum, and BitTorrent
- A Main index, a Utility index, and a File Tree index
- A glossary with over 500 entries
- See the Preface for more details of coverage
Download code from the book.
Read a brief biography of Mark Sobell.
View a list of Linux Links.
View answers to even-numbered exercises.
Review a list of errata for the book.
Send a note to Mark Sobell at mgs@sobell.com.
Practical guide to linux commands editors and shell programming
A Book by Mark G Sobell
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
Read a review of this book at PCBurn Slashdot
Order A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming from:
Amazon or Barnes & Noble
- A quick introduction to 30+ useful utilities
- An introduction to the Linux filesystem and its features
- One chapter on vim and one chapter on emacs
- A chapter on programming tools including sections on gcc, make, gdb, and CVS
- Detailed coverage of more than 80 Linux utilities with many examples (Part V)
- An introductory chapter on using the shells
- A chapter on using bash (the Bourne Again Shell) interactively (from the command line)
- A chapter covering bash as a programming language (to write shell scripts)
- A chapter about how to use tcsh (the TC Shell) interactively (from the command line) and as a programming language
- A chapter on the gawk pattern processing language
- An appendix on regular expressions
- An appendix on keeping the system up-to-date using Apt, yum, and BitTorrent
- A glossary with over 500 entries
- See the Preface for more details of coverage
Download code from the book.
Read a brief biography of Mark Sobell.
View a list of Linux Links.
View answers to even-numbered exercises.
Review a list of errata for the book.
Send a note to Mark Sobell at mgs@sobell.com.
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
The Most Useful Linux Tutorial and Reference, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples for Every Distribution–Now Covers OS X and Perl, Too!
To be truly productive with Linux, you need to thoroughly master 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. 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 with any Linux system, now and for years to come. Use Macs, too? This new edition adds comprehensive coverage of the Mac OS X command line, including essential OS X-only tools and utilities other Linux/UNIX books ignore.
Packed with hundreds of high-quality, realistic examples, this book gives you 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. Sobell has also added an outstanding new primer on Perl, the most important programming tool for Linux admins seeking to automate complex, time-consuming tasks.
A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Second Edition, is 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 and OS X nook and cranny
- A start-to-finish primer on Perl for every system administrator
- In-depth coverage of basic and advanced Linux shell programming with bash and tcsh
- Practical explanations of 100 core utilities, from aspell to xargs–including Mac OS X specific utilities from ditto to SetFile
- All-new coverage of automating remote backups with rsync
- Dozens of system security tips, including step-by-step walkthroughs of implementing secure communications using ssh and scp
- Tips and tricks for customizing the shell and using it interactively from the command line
- Complete guides to high-productivity editing with both vim and emacs
- A comprehensive, 286-page command reference section–now with revised and expanded indexes for faster access to the information you need
- Instructions for updating systems automatically with apt-get and yum
- Dozens of exercises to help you practice and gain confidence
- And much more, including coverage of BitTorrent, gawk, sed, find, sort, bzip2, and regular expressions