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 regular expressions. And when you need instant answers, you'll rely constantly on Sobell's 250-page command reference section--organized and tabbed for easy, fast access!



Don't settle for yesterday's Linux guidebook...get the one that meets today's challenges--and tomorrow's!



A Practical Guide to Linux? Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming is the most useful, most comprehensive Linux tutorial and reference you can find. It's the only book to deliver



Better, more realisticexamples covering tasks you'll actually need to perform

Deeper insight, based on Sobell's immense knowledge of every Linux nook and cranny

More practical explanations of more than eighty core utilities, from aspell to xargs

Techniques for implementing secure communications using ssh and scp--plus dozens of tips for making your system more secure

A superior introduction to the Linux programming environment, including make, gcc, gdb, CVS, and much more

Expert guidance on basic and advanced shell programming using bash and tcsh

Tips and tricks for customizing the shell and using it interactively from the command line

Thorough guides to vim and emacs designed to help you get productive fast, and maximize your editing efficiency

More useful coverage of the Linux filesystem including access permission and links

Dozens of exercises to help you practice and gain confidence

Instructions for using Apt, yum, and BitTorrent for keeping your system up to date automatically

And much more, including coverage of gawk, sed, find, sort, bzip2, and regular expressions



TABLE OF CONTENTS



Ch. 1 Welcome to Linux 1

Ch. 2 Getting started 21

Ch. 3 Command line utilities 41

Ch. 4 The Linux filesystem 75

Ch. 5 The shell 107

Ch. 6 The vim editor 139

Ch. 7 The emacs editor 195

Ch. 8 The Bourne again shell 255

Ch. 9 The TC shell 339

Ch. 10 Programming tools 387

Ch. 11 Programming the Bourne again shell 435

Ch. 12 The gawk pattern processing language 527

Ch. 13 The sed editor 563

Command reference 581