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Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, A (2nd Edition)

Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, A (2nd Edition)Author: Mark G. Sobell
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 reviews
Sales Rank: 7924

Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 1080
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.9

ISBN: 0131367366
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.432
EAN: 9780131367364
ASIN: 0131367366

Publication Date: November 29, 2009
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  • Kindle Edition - A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
  • Kindle Edition - A Practical Guide to Linux(R) Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
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Product Description

For use with all versions of Linux, including Ubuntu,™ Fedora,™ openSUSE,™ Red Hat,® Debian, Mandriva, Mint, and now OS X, too!

  • Get more done faster, and become a true Linux guru by mastering the command line!
  • Learn from hundreds of realistic, high-quality examples
  • NEW! Coverage of the Mac OS X command line and its unique tools
  • NEW! Expert primer on automating tasks with Perl

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




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5 out of 5 stars A Practical Guide to Linux(R) Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming   November 10, 2009
Allen C. O'Neil (Baltimore)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful

Great Book. Delivered on-time and as promised. Thank you.




A Practical Guide to Linux(R) Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming



4 out of 5 stars Great Book   June 24, 2009
M. Irvin (Hampton Roads, VA USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

Very helpful and informative to my learning of Unix. I prefer this over "Unix in a Nutshell"


3 out of 5 stars Average...   March 12, 2009
C. Hernandez (Southern California)
0 out of 12 found this review helpful

This book is average...at best...

There are better books out there...if you are going to buy this book, buy another to go along with it...

-C



5 out of 5 stars makes it really easy   February 14, 2009
Raval Seojattan (Georgetown, Guyana, S. America.)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

This books makes it very easy to understand how to use the Linux command line. Regardless how much of an idiot you are, this book will make you a master of the command line.


5 out of 5 stars Perfect Linux for power users or system admins   January 27, 2009
J. Simonsen (Texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

One can read this book cover to cover, but it equally impressive as a reference. I find myself constantly going back to it for commands and shell programming references. If you are afraid of the command line, then get this book and learn.

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