A Book by Mark G. Sobell
A Practical Guide to Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Third Edition
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Preface
Brief TOC
Full TOC
Samples from chapters
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Features:
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Covers the Mac OS X command-line interface (CLI) in addition to Linux
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A quick introduction to 30+ useful utilities
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An introduction to the Linux filesystem and its features
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One chapter on vim and one chapter on emacs
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A new chapter on Python
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A new chapter on setting up and running a MySQL database
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A chapter on writing Perl scripts
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Detailed coverage of 98 Linux and OS X utilities with many examples (Part VI)
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An introductory chapter on using the shells
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A chapter on using bash (the Bourne Again Shell) interactively (from the command line)
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A chapter covering bash as a programming language (to write shell scripts)
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A chapter about how to use tcsh (the TC Shell) interactively (from the command line) and as a programming language
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A chapter on how to use rsync to copy files between systems and create backups
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A chapter on the gawk pattern processing language
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An appendix on regular expressions
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An appendix on keeping a system up-to-date using apt-get, yum, and BitTorrent
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A Main index, a Utility index, and a File Tree index
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A glossary with over 500 entries
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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.
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