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Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, A, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (December 21, 2023) © 2024

  • Mark G. Sobell
  • Matthew Helmke

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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 only 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, updated with assistance from new coauthor Matthew Helmke.

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.

  • Includes new MySQL/MariaDB primers and Python 3 tutorials, coverage of the transition from Yum to DNF, and new Linux utilities readers are clamoring to learn about
  • Distribution agnostic! Works for any Linux user, including Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and Debian users -- even includes macOS command-line utilities!
  • Includes an outstanding 300-page command reference covering all the most popular Linux commands with carefully constructed examples of each: a HUGE improvement over Linux man pages
This new 4th edition covers the latest Linux distributions, as well as DNF, Python 3, the zsh shell, and Maria DB.
  • Preface
  • 1: Welcome to Linux and Mac OS X
  • Part I: The Linux and Mac OS X Operating Systems
  • 2: Getting Started
  • 3: The Utilities
  • 4: The Filesystem
  • 5: The Shell
  • Part II: The Editors
  • 6: The vim Editor
  • 7: The emacs Editor
  • Part III: The Shells
  • 8: The Bourne Again Shell (bash)
  • 9: The TC Shell (tcsh)
  • Part IV: Programming Tools
  • 10: Programming the Bourne Again Shell (bash)
  • 11: The Perl Scripting Language
  • 12: The Python Programming Language
  • 13: The MySQL Database Management System
  • 14: The AWK Pattern Processing Language
  • 15: The sed Editor
  • Part V: Secure Network Utilities
  • 16: The rsync Secure Copy Utility
  • 17: The OpenSSH Secure Communication Utilities
  • Part VI: Command Reference
  • Utilities That Display and Manipulate Files
  • Network Utilities
  • Utilities That Display and Alter Status
  • Utilities That Are Programming Tools
  • Miscellaneous Utilities
  • Standard Multiplicative Suffixes
  • Common Options
  • The Sample Utility
  • Part VII: Appendices
  • Appendix A: Regular Expressions
  • Appendix B: Help
  • Appendix C: Keeping the System Up-to-Date
  • Appendix D: Mac OS X Notes
  • Glossary
  • File Tree Index
  • Utility Index
  • Main Index

Mark G. Sobell has forty years of experience working with UNIX and Linux systems and is the author of many best-selling books, including A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Seventh Edition, and A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux®, Fourth Edition.

Matthew Helmke got his first computer in 1981, a TRS-80 Color Computer. He started using UNIX in 1987 while studying LISP. He works as a technical writer and has written about Linux and other topics for magazines and a diverse set of companies. He is the author of several books, including Ubuntu Unleashed, The Official Ubuntu Book, and VMware Cookbook.

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