Linux Pocket Guide: Essential Commands, 3rd Edition
- Length: 272 pages
- Edition: 3
- Language: English
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media
- Publication Date: 2016-06-23
- ISBN-10: 1491927577
- ISBN-13: 9781491927571
- Sales Rank: #22143 (See Top 100 Books)
If you use Linux in your day-to-day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on-the-job reference. The third edition features new commands for processing image files and audio files, running and killing programs, reading and modifying the system clipboard, and manipulating PDF files, as well as other commands requested by readers. You’ll also find powerful command-line idioms you might not be familiar with, such as process substitution and piping into bash.
Linux Pocket Guide provides an organized learning path to help you gain mastery of the most useful and important commands. Whether you’re a novice who needs to get up to speed on Linux or an experienced user who wants a concise and functional reference, this guide provides quick answers.
Selected topics include:
- The filesystem and shell
- File creation and editing
- Text manipulation and pipelines
- Backups and remote storage
- Viewing and controlling processes
- User account management
- Becoming the superuser
- Network connections
- Audio and video
- Installing software
- Programming with shell scripts
Table of Contents
- What’s in This Book?
- Practicing with This Book
- Getting Help
- Linux: A First View
- The Filesystem
- Shell Features
- Basic File Operations
- Directory Operations
- File Viewing
- File Creation and Editing
- File Properties
- File Location
- File Text Manipulation
- File Compression and Packaging
- File Comparison
- PDF and PostScript File Handling
- Printing
- Spellchecking
- Disks and Filesystems
- Backups and Remote Storage
- Viewing Processes
- Controlling Processes
- Scheduling Jobs
- Logins, Logouts, and Shutdowns
- Users and Their Environment
- User Account Management
- Becoming the Superuser
- Group Management
- Host Information
- Host Location
- Network Connections
- Web Browsing
- Instant Messaging
- Screen Output
- Copy and Paste
- Math and Calculations
- Dates and Times
- Graphics
- Audio and Video
- Installing Software
- Programming with Shell Scripts
- Final Words
