A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

<BLOCKQUOTE> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">“First Sobell taught people how to use Linux . . . now he teaches you the power of Linux. A must-have book for anyone who wants to take Linux to the next level.” </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">–<I>Jon “maddog” Hall, Executive Director, Linux International</I> </P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>New Chapters on Python and MySQL</B>–<B>Covers Perl, too!</B> </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Learn from hundreds of realistic, high-quality examples, and become a true Linux command-line guru! </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">NEW! Covers busybox, Midnight Commander, screen, and sshfs/curlftpf </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Covers the Mac OS X command line and its unique tools </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">295-page reference covers 98 utilities, including Mac OS X commands! </DIV> </LI> </UL> <I> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">For use with all popular versions of Linux, including Ubuntu™, Fedora™, openSUSE™, Red Hat®, Debian, Mageia, Mint, Arch, CentOS, and Mac OS X, too!</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </I> </P> <B> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Most Useful Tutorial and Reference, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples for Every Popular Linux Distribution </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </B> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Linux is today’s dominant Internet server platform. System administrators and Web developers need deep Linux fluency, including expert knowledge of shells and the command line. This is the <I>only </I>guide with everything you need to achieve that level of Linux mastery. Renowned Linux expert Mark Sobell has brought together comprehensive, insightful guidance on the tools sysadmins, developers, and power users need most, and has created an outstanding day-to-day reference. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This title is 100 percent distribution and release agnostic. Packed with hundreds of high-quality, realistic examples, it presents Linux from the ground up: the clearest explanations and most useful information about everything from filesystems to shells, editors to utilities, and programming tools to regular expressions. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Use a Mac? You’ll find coverage of the Mac OS X command line, including OS X-only tools and utilities other Linux/UNIX titles ignore. Sobell presents a new MySQL chapter. There’s even an expert introduction to Python–today’s most valuable tool for automating complex, time-consuming administration tasks. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I> <B>A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Third Edition, </B> </I> </B>is the only guide to deliver </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">A MySQL chapter to get you started with this ubiquitous relational database management system (RDBMS) </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">A masterful introduction to Python for system administrators and power users </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">New coverage of the <B>busybox </B>single binary collection of utilities, the <B>screen </B>terminal session manager/multiplexer, and the <B>mc </B>(Midnight Commander) textual file manager, plus a new chapter on using <B>ssh </B>for secure communication </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">In-depth coverage of the <B>bash </B>and <B>tcsh </B>shells, including a complete discussion of environment, inheritance, and process locality, plus coverage of basic and advanced shell programming </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Practical explanations of 98 core utilities, from <B>aspell </B>to <B>xargs</B>, including <B>printf </B>and <B>sshfs</B>/<B>curlftpfs</B>, PLUS Mac OS X-specific utilities from <B>ditto </B>to <B>SetFile </B> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Expert guidance on automating remote backups using <B>rsync </B> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Dozens of system security tips, including step-by-step walkthroughs of implementing secure communications using <B>ssh </B>and <B>scp </B> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Tips and tricks for customizing the shell, including step values, sequence expressions, the <B>eval </B>builtin, and implicit command-line continuation </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">High-productivity editing techniques using <B>vim </B>and <B>emacs </B> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">A comprehensive, 295-page command reference section covering 98 utilities, including <B>find</B>, <B>grep</B>, <B>sort</B>, and <B>tar </B> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Instructions for updating systems using <B>apt-get </B>and <B>yum </B> </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">And much more, including coverage of BitTorrent, <B>gawk</B>, <B>sed</B>, <B>find</B>, <B>sort</B>, <B>bzip2</B>, and regular expressions</DIV> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>