A Book by Mark G Sobell

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

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Preface
Brief TOC
Full TOC
Samples from chapters




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Features:

• A quick introduction to 30+ useful utilities
• An introduction to the Linux filesystem and its features
• One chapter on vim and one chapter on emacs
• A chapter on programming tools including sections on gcc, make, gdb, and CVS
• Detailed coverage of more than 80 Linux utilities with many examples (Part V)
• An introductory chapter on using the shells
• A chapter on using bash (the Bourne Again Shell) interactively (from the command line)
• A chapter covering bash as a programming language (to write shell scripts)
• A chapter about how to use tcsh (the TC Shell) interactively (from the command line) and as a programming language
• A chapter on the gawk pattern processing language
• An appendix on regular expressions
• An appendix on keeping the system up-to-date using Apt, yum, and BitTorrent
• A glossary with over 500 entries
• See the Preface for more details of coverage

Links:

Download code from the book.
Read a brief biography of Mark Sobell.
View a list of Linux Links.
View answers to even-numbered exercises.
Review a list of errata for the book.
Send a note to Mark Sobell at mgs@sobell.com.