A practical guide to Linux commands, Editors, and Shell programming / Mark G. Sobell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobell, Mark G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linux.

Operating systems (Computers).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (p. cm.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 Hat® Linux® 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 Hat® Linux® 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 mast...

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1: WELCOME TO LINUX

The GNU-Linux Connection

The History of GNU-Linux

The Code Is Free

Have Fun!

The Heritage of Linux: UNIX

What Is So Good About Linux?

Why Linux Is Popular with Hardware Companies and Developers

Linux Is Portable

Standards

The C Programming Language

Overview of Linux

Linux Has a Kernel Programming Interface

Linux Can Support Many Users

Linux Can Run Many Tasks

Linux Provides a Secure Hierarchical Filesystem

The Shell: Command Interpreter and Programming Language

A Large Collection of Useful Utilities

Interprocess Communication

System Administration

Additional Features of Linux

GUIs: Graphical User Interfaces

(Inter)networking Utilities

Software Development

Chapter Summary

Exercises

PART I: THE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM

CHAPTER 2: GETTING STARTED

Conventions Used in This Book

Logging In

Working with the Shell

Curbing Your Power: Superuser Access

Getting the Facts: Where to Find Documentation

More About Logging In

Advanced Exercises

CHAPTER 3: COMMAND LINE UTILITIES

Special Characters

Basic Utilities

Working with Files

| (Pipe): Communicates Between Processes

Four More Utilities

Compressing and Archiving Files

Locating Commands

Obtaining User and System Information

Communicating with Other Users

Email

CHAPTER 4: THE LINUX FILESYSTEM

The Hierarchical Filesystem

Directory and Ordinary Files

Working with Directories

Access Permissions

Links

CHAPTER 5: THE SHELL

The Command Line

Standard Input and Standard Output

Running a Program in the Background

Filename Generation/Pathname Expansion.

Builtins

PART II: THE EDITORS

CHAPTER 6: THE VIM EDITOR

History

Tutorial: Creating and Editing a File with vim

The compatible Parameter

Introduction to vim Features

Command Mode: Moving the Cursor

Input Mode

Command Mode: Deleting and Changing Text

Searching and Substituting

Miscellaneous Commands

Yank, Put, and Delete Commands

Reading and Writing Files

Setting Parameters

Advanced Editing Techniques

Units of Measure

CHAPTER 7: THE emacs EDITOR

Tutorial: Getting Started with emacs

Basic Editing Commands

Online Help

Advanced Editing

Language-Sensitive Editing

Customizing emacs

More Information

PART III: THE SHELLS

CHAPTER 8: THE BOURNE AGAIN SHELL

Background

Shell Basics

Parameters and Variables

Processes

Aliases

Functions

Controlling bash Features and Options

Processing the Command Line

CHAPTER 9: THE TC SHELL

Shell Scripts

Entering and Leaving the TC Shell

Features Common to the Bourne Again and TC Shells

Redirecting Standard Error

Working with the Command Line

Variables

Control Structures

Builtins

PART IV: PROGRAMMING TOOLS

CHAPTER 10: PROGRAMMING TOOLS

Programming in C

Using Shared Libraries

make: Keeps a Set of Programs Current

Debugging C Programs

Threads

System Calls

Source Code Management

CHAPTER 11: PROGRAMMING THE BOURNE AGAIN SHELL

File Descriptors

Builtin Commands

Expressions.

Shell Programs

CHAPTER 12: THE GAWK PATTERN PROCESSING LANGUAGE

Syntax

Arguments

Options

Notes

Language Basics

Examples

Advanced gawk Programming

Error Messages

CHAPTER 13: THE SED EDITOR

Editor Basics

PART V: COMMAND REFERENCE

Standard Multiplicative Suffixes

Common Options

The sample Utility

sample: Very brief description of what the utility does

aspell: Checks a file for spelling errors

at: Executes commands at a specified time

bzip2: Compresses or decompresses files

cal: Displays a calendar

cat: Joins and displays files

cd: Changes to another working directory

chgrp: Changes the group associated with a file

chmod: Changes the access mode (permissions) of a file

chown: Changes the owner of a file and/or the group the file is associated with

cmp: Compares two files

comm: Compares sorted files

configure: Configures source code automatically

cp: Copies files

cpio: Creates an archive or restores files from an archive

crontab: Maintains crontab files

cut: Selects characters or fields from input lines

date: Displays or sets the system time and date

dd: Converts and copies a file

df: Displays disk space usage

diff: Displays the differences between two files

du: Displays information on disk usage by file

echo: Displays a message

expr: Evaluates an expression

file: Displays the classification of a file

find: Finds files based on criteria

finger: Displays information about users

fmt: Formats text very simply

fsck: Checks and repairs a filesystem

ftp: Transfers files over a network

gcc: Compiles C and C++ programs.

grep: Searches for a pattern in files

gzip: Compresses or decompresses files

head: Displays the beginning of a file

kill: Terminates a process by PID

killall: Terminates a process by name

less: Displays text files, one screen at a time

ln: Makes a link to a file

lpr: Sends files to printers

ls: Displays information about one or more files

make: Keeps a set of programs current

man: Displays documentation for commands

mkdir: Creates a directory

mkfs: Creates a filesystem on a device

Mtools: Uses DOS-style commands on files and directories

mv: Renames or moves a file

nice: Changes the priority of a command

nohup: Runs a command that keeps running after you log out

od: Dumps the contents of a file

paste: Joins corresponding lines from files

pr: Paginates files for printing

ps: Displays process status

rcp: Copies one or more files to or from a remote system

rlogin: Logs in on a remote system

rm: Removes a file (deletes a link)

rmdir: Removes a directory

rsh: Executes commands on a remote system

scp: Securely copies one or more files to or from a remote system

sleep: Creates a process that sleeps for a specified interval

sort: Sorts and/or merges files

split: Divides a file in into sections

ssh: Securely executes commands on a remote system

strings: Displays strings of printable characters

stty: Displays or sets terminal parameters

tail: Displays the last part (tail) of a file

tar: Stores or retrieves files to/from an archive file

tee: Copies standard input to standard output and one or more files

telnet: Connects to a remote system over a network

test: Evaluates an expression

top: Dynamically displays process status

touch: Changes a file's access and/or modification time

tr: Replaces specified characters.

tty: Displays the terminal pathname

tune2fs: Changes parameters on an ext2 or ext3 filesystem

umask: Establishes the file-creation permissions mask

uniq: Displays unique lines

w: Displays information about system users

wc: Displays the number of lines, words, and bytes

which: Shows where in PATH a command is located

who: Displays information about logged-in users

xargs: Converts standard input into command lines

PART VI: APPENDIXES

APPENDIX A: REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

Characters

Delimiters

Simple Strings

Rules

Bracketing Expressions

The Replacement String

Extended Regular Expressions

Appendix Summary

Appendix B: Help

Solving a Problem

Finding Linux-Related Information

Specifying a Terminal

Appendix C: Keeping the System Up-to-Date

yum: Updates and Installs Packages

Apt: An Alternative to yum

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GLOSSARY.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612431975

9781282431973

1282431978

9780137056606

0137056605

OCLC:

1027165493