Practical Guide To Linux Commands Editors And Shell Programming

First Sobell taught people how to use Linux.. .now he teaches you the power of Linux. A must-have book for anyone who wants to take Linux to the next level." -Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux International New Chapters on Python and MySQL-Covers Perl too! * Learn from hundreds of realistic high-quality examples and become a true Linux command-line guru! * NEW! Covers busybox Midnight Commander screen and sshfs/curlftpf * Covers the Mac OS X command line and its unique tools * 295-page reference covers 98 utilities including Mac OS X commands! For use with all popular versions of Linux including Ubuntu(t) Fedora(t) openSUSE(t) Red Hat(r) Debian Mageia Mint Arch CentOS and Mac OS X too! The Most Useful Tutorial and Reference with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples for
Every Popular Linux Distribution Linux is todays 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. 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. Use a Mac? Youll find coverage of the Mac OS X command line including OS X-only tools and utilities other Linux/UNIX titles ignore. Sobell presents a new MySQL chapter. Theres even an expert introduction to Python-todays most valuable tool for automating complex time-consuming administration tasks. A Practical Guide to Linux(r) Commands Editors and Shell Programming Third Edition is the only guide to deliver * A MySQL chapter to get you started with this ubiquitous relational database management system (RDBMS) * A masterful introduction to Python for system administrators and power users * New coverage of the busybox single binary collection of utilities the screen terminal session manager/multiplexer and the mc (Midnight Commander) textual file manager plus a new
chapter on using ssh for secure communication * In-depth coverage of the bash and tcsh shells including a complete discussion of environment inheritance and process locality plus coverage of basic and advanced shell programming * Practical explanations of 98 core utilities from aspell to xargs including printf and sshfs/curlftpfs PLUS Mac OS X-specific utilities from ditto to SetFile * Expert guidance on automating remote backups using rsync * Dozens of system security tips including step-by-step walkthroughs of implementing secure communications using ssh and scp * Tips and tricks for customizing the shell including step values sequence expressions the eval builtin and implicit command-line continuation * High-productivity editing techniques using vim and emacs * A comprehensive 295-page
command reference section covering 98 utilities including find grep sort and tar * Instructions for updating systems using apt-get and yum * And much more including coverage of BitTorrent gawk sed find sort bzip2 and regular expressions"