Synopses & Reviews
O'Reilly's Pocket Guides have earned a reputation as inexpensive, comprehensive, and compact guides that have the stuff but not the fluff. Every page of Linux Pocket Guide lives up to this billing. It clearly explains how to get up to speed quickly on day-to-day Linux use. Once you're up and running, Linux Pocket Guide provides an easy-to-use reference that you can keep by your keyboard for those times when you want a fast, useful answer, not hours in the man pages.
Linux Pocket Guide is organized the way you use Linux: by function, not just alphabetically. It's not the 'bible of Linux; it's a practical and concise guide to the options and commands you need most. It starts with general concepts like files and directories, the shell, and X windows, and then presents detailed overviews of the most essential commands, with clear examples. You'll learn each command's purpose, usage, options, location on disk, and even the RPM package that installed it.
The Linux Pocket Guide is tailored to Fedora Linux--the latest spin-off of Red Hat Linux--but most of the information applies to any Linux system.
Throw in a host of valuable power user tips and a friendly and accessible style, and you'll quickly find this practical, to-the-point book a small but mighty resource for Linux users.
Synopsis
O'Reilly's Pocket Guides have earned a reputation as inexpensive, comprehensive, and compact guides that have the stuff but not the fluff. Every page of Linux Pocket Guide lives up to this billing. It clearly explains how to get up to speed quickly on day-to-day Linux use. Once you're up and running, Linux Pocket Guide provides an easy-to-use reference that you can keep by your keyboard for those times when you want a fast, useful answer, not hours in the man pages.Linux Pocket Guide is organized the way you use Linux: by function, not just alphabetically. It's not the 'bible of Linux; it's a practical and concise guide to the options and commands you need most. It starts with general concepts like files and directories, the shell, and X windows, and then presents detailed overviews of the most essential commands, with clear examples. You'll learn each command's purpose, usage, options, location on disk, and even the RPM package that installed it.The Linux Pocket Guide is tailored to Fedora Linux--the latest spin-off of Red Hat Linux--but most of the information applies to any Linux system.Throw in a host of valuable power user tips and a friendly and accessible style, and you'll quickly find this practical, to-the-point book a small but mighty resource for Linux users.
About the Author
Daniel J. Barrett has been immersed in Internet technology since 1985. Currently working as a software engineer, Dan has also been a heavy metal singer, Unix system administrator, university lecturer, web designer, and humorist. He is the author of O'Reilly's Linux Pocket Guide, and he is the coauthor of Linux Security Cookbook, and SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Linux Pocket Guide; 1.1 What's in This Book?; 1.2 Getting Help; 1.3 Fedora: A First View; 1.4 Logins, Logouts, and Shutdowns; 1.5 The Filesystem; 1.6 The Shell; 1.7 Installing Software; 1.8 tar.gz and tar.bz2 files; 1.9 Basic File Operations; 1.10 Directory Operations; 1.11 File Viewing; 1.12 File Creation and Editing; 1.13 File Properties; 1.14 File Location; 1.15 File Text Manipulation; 1.16 More Powerful Manipulations; 1.17 File Compression and Packaging; 1.18 File Comparison; 1.19 Disks and Filesystems; 1.20 Partitioning and Formatting Disks; 1.21 Backups and Remote Storage; 1.22 File Printing; 1.23 Spelling Operations; 1.24 Viewing Processes; 1.25 Controlling Processes; 1.26 Users and Their Environment; 1.27 Working with User Accounts; 1.28 Becoming the Superuser; 1.29 Working with Groups; 1.30 Basic Host Information; 1.31 Host Location; 1.32 Network Connections; 1.33 Email; 1.34 Web Browsing; 1.35 Usenet News; 1.36 Instant Messaging; 1.37 Screen Output; 1.38 Math and Calculations; 1.39 Dates and Times; 1.40 Scheduling Jobs; 1.41 Graphics and Screensavers; 1.42 Audio and Video; 1.43 Programming with Shell Scripts; 1.44 Final Words;