A Practical Guide to Linux Commands

Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date: July 01, 2005
ISBN: 0-13-147823-0
Pages: 1008

The essential reference for core commands that Linux users need daily, along
with superior tutorial on shell programming and much more.System administrators,
software developers, quality assurance engineers and others working on a Linux
system need to work from the command line in order to be effective.Linux is
famous for its huge number of command line utility programs, and the programs
themselves are famous for their large numbers of options, switches,and
configuration files. But the truth is that users will only use a limited (but
still significant) number of these utilities on a recurring basis,and then only
with a subset of the most important and useful options,switches and
configuration files.This book cuts through all the noise and shows them which
utilities are most useful, and which options most important. And it contains
examples,lot's and lot's of examples.This is not just a reprint of the man
pages...

And Linux is also famous for its "programmability." Utilities are designed,by
default, to work wtih other utilities within shell programs as a way of
automating system tasks. This book contains a superb introduction to Linux shell
programming. And since shell programmers need to write their programs in text
editors,this book covers the two most popular ones: vi and emacs.

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