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Praise for Mark Sobell's Books "I keep searching for books that collect everything you want to know about a subject in one place, and keep getting disappointed. Usually the books leave out some important topic, while others go too deep in some areas and must skim lightly over the others. A Practical Guide to Red Hatreg; Linuxreg; is one of those rare books that actually pulls it off. Mark G. Sobell has created a single reference for Red Hat Linux that cannot be beat! This marvelous text (with a 4-CD set of Linux Fedora Core 2 included) is well worth the price. This is as close to an 'everything you ever needed to know' book that I've seen. It's just that good and rates 5 out of 5." -Ray Lodato, Slashdot contributor "Mark Sobell has written a book as approachable as it is authoritative." -Jeffrey Bianchine, Advocate, Author, Journalist "Excellent reference book, well suited for the sysadmin of a linux cluster, or the owner of a PC contemplating installing a recent stable linux. Don't be put off by the daunting heft of the book. Sobell has striven to be as inclusive as possible, in trying to anticipate your system administration needs." -Wes Boudville, Inventor "A Practical Guide to Red Hatreg; Linuxreg; is a brilliant book. Thank you Mark Sobell." -C. Pozrikidis, University of California at San Diego "This book presents the best overview of the Linux operating system that I have found. . . . It should be very helpful and understandable no matter what the reader's background is: traditional UNIX user, new Linux devotee, or even Windows user. Each topic is presented in a clear, complete fashion and very few assumptions are made about what the reader knows. . . . The book is extremely useful as a reference, as it contains a 70-page glossary of terms and is very well indexed. It is organized in such a way that the reader can focus on simple tasks without having to wade through more advanced topics until they are ready." -Cam Marshall, Marshall Information Service LLC, Member of Front Range UNIX Users Group FRUUG, Boulder, Colorado "Conclusively, this is THE book to get if you are a new Linux user and you just got into RH/Fedora world. There's no other book that discusses so many different topics and in such depth." -Eugenia Loli-Queru, Editor in Chief, OSNews.com The 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 regula

Product Identifiers

PublisherPrentice Hall PTR

ISBN-100131478230

ISBN-139780131478237

eBay Product ID (ePID)45023541

Product Key Features

Number of Pages1008 Pages

Publication NamePractical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

LanguageEnglish

SubjectOperating Systems / Linux

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

AuthorMark G. Sobell

Subject AreaComputers

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight52.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2005-050051

Dewey Edition23

Target AudienceScholarly & Professional

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal005.4/32

Lc Classification NumberQa76.76.O63.S59483

Table of ContentPreface xxviiChapter 1: Welcome to Linux 1The GNU-Linux Connection 2 The Heritage of Linux: UNIX 5 What Is So Good About Linux? 6 Overview of Linux 10 Additional Features of Linux 15 Chapter Summary 16 Exercises 17 Part I: The Linux Operating System 19Chapter 2: Getting Started 21Conventions Used in This Book 22 Logging In 24 Working with the Shell 25 Curbing Your Power: Superuser Access 28 Getting the Facts: Where to Find Documentation 29 More About Logging In 35 Chapter Summary 38 Exercises 39 Advanced Exercises 39 Chapter 3: Command Line Utilities 41Special Characters 42 Basic Utilities 43 Working with Files 45 (Pipe): Communicates Between Processes 52 Four More Utilities 53 Compressing and Archiving Files 56 Locating Commands 61 Obtaining User and System Information 63 Communicating with Other Users 67 Email 69 Chapter Summary 69 Exercises 72 Advanced Exercises 73 Chapter 4: The Linux Filesystem 75The Hierarchical Filesystem 76 Directory and Ordinary Files 77 Working with Directories 88 Access Permissions 91 Links 96 Chapter Summary 102 Exercises 103 Advanced Exercises 105 Chapter 5: The Shell 107The Command Line 108 Standard Input and Standard Output 113 Running a Program in the Background 125 Filename Generation/Pathname Expansion 127 Builtins 132 Chapter Summary 133 Exercises 134 Advanced Exercises 136 Part II: The Editors 137Chapter 6: The vim Editor 139History 140 Tutorial: Creating and Editing a File with vim 141 The compatible Parameter 148 Introduction to vim Features 148 Command Mode: Moving the Cursor 154 Input Mode 158 Command Mode: Deleting and Changing Text 160 Searching and Substituting 164 Miscellaneous Commands 170 Yank, Put, and Delete Commands 171 Reading and Writing Files 174 Setting Parameters 175 Advanced Editing Techniques 180 Units of Measure 184 Chapter Summary 188 Exercises 193 Advanced Exercises 194 Chapter 7: The emacs Editor 195History 196 Tutorial: Getting Started with emacs 198 Basic Editing Commands 204 Online Help 209 Advanced Editing 212 Language-Sensitive Editing 225 Customizing emacs 235 More Information 240 Chapter Summary 241 Exercises 248 Advanced Exercises 250 Part III: The Shells 253Chapter 8: The Bourne Again Shell 255Background 256 Shell Basics 257 Parameters and Variables 277 Processes 292 History 295 Aliases 312 Functions 315 Controlling bash Features and Options 318 Processing the Command Line 322 Chapter Summary 332 Exercises 334 Advanced Exercises 336 Chapter 9: The TC Shell 339Shell Scripts 340 Entering and Leaving the TC Shell 341 Features Common to the Bourne Again and TC Shells 343 Redirecting Standard Error 349 Working with the Command Line 350 Variables 355 Control Structures 368 Builtins 377 Chapter Summary 381 Exercises 382 Advanced Exercises 384 Part IV: Programming Tools 385Chapter 10: Programming Tools 387Programming in C 388 Using Shared Libraries 396 make: Keeps a Set of Programs Current 399 Debugging C Programs 407 Threads 417 System Calls 417 Source Code Management 420 Chapter Summary 430 Exercises 431 Advanced Exercises 432 Chapter 11: Programming the Bourne Again Shell 435Control Structures 436 File Descriptors 470 Parameters and Variables 474 Builtin Commands 487 Expressions 501 Shell Programs 510 Chapter Summary 520 Exercises 522 Advanced Exercises 524 Chapter 12: The gawk