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 enlarge | Author: Mark G. Sobell
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Category: Book
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 7126
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1008
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.9
ISBN: 0131478230
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.446
EAN: 9780131478237
ASIN: 0131478230
Publication Date: July 11, 2005
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 Comprehensive but overwhelming for a n00b February 26, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
Few examples from this book that I know I will never use but who knows, other users may find that:
-This book is great if you're into emacs and vi(m) since it dedicates over 100 pages on these two text editors but I prefer using nano so for me these chapters were more or less wasted.
-This book is great if you're into shell programming.
Why spend 100+ pages on vim and emacs when at least some pages could've been dedicated to a Security Section that this book doesn't have?
Perhaps emacs and vim are important because programming requires a good set of text editors..?
The Appendix is great though - there's an extensive collection of commands that can be useful for all newbies and intermediate users.
Someone will probably flame me for this review, saying I should've read the book's title before purchasing it. Yes, you are right - I should've.
But then again, if this book clearly was written for intermediate users, why mention GNU, basics of Linux and its file systems and so forth to begin with?
 Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming February 14, 2008
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 give a lots of useful examples that provide a good background
To the theoretical fields.
The only disadvantage from my point of view is that this book don't
Cover Perl and Python (and Optional PHP).
Although one book may not cover all, I hope that the author will write
A second volume that will cover this nice script languages.
It is what it says January 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 been several years since I used Unix, so this was a great refresher session for me, and it makes a good reference manual when I'm writing new scripts.
 For beginners only December 31, 2007
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
This Practical Guide is really a *Beginners* Guide for linux end-users. The volume is comprehensive from the point of view of an end user that is new to linux. I was looking for something with more depth for that could assist a beginner that is setting up linux server. Most administrative tasks like setting up networks and local services are glossed over with no practical reference.
This book goes back Amazon.
The rare technical book that's still useful one year after I bought it... December 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a reasonably technically competent computer user who a bit less than one year ago wanted to try using Ubuntu Linux as my primary operating system. To make that happen, I needed a book that could help me get oriented to Linux usage and help me learn some of Linux's "more than newbie" tricks and techniques.
Well, the good news began when A Practical Guide to Linux got me started with some excellent chapters and summary lists of many useful albeit less obvious Linux commands.
But the book didn't stop there. It also has some VERY good chapters about both the VIM and EMACS text editors. I especially found the VIM chapters (more than one!) very good at getting me up to speed on both basic and advanced VIM commands and techniques.
But wait, don't answer yet. After nearly a year of using Linux, I find The Practical Guide to Linux back beside my keyboard. This time it's helping me begin doing some shell programming and C programming.
In short, A Practical Guide to Linux is both well written and well edited. It's a book the author and publishers can be justifiably proud of having produced.
If you're technically competent enough to get Linux up and working, but still need a "friend" to help you make Linux do some useful work, I believe The Practical Guide to Linux will be a very useful addition to your technical library and a very good complement to your Linux adventure...
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