The Most Useful Tutorial and Reference, with Hundreds of High-Quality
Examples for Every Popular Linux Distribution
"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
Discover the Power of Linux--Covers macOS, too!
- Learn from hundreds of realistic, high-quality examples, and become a
true command-line guru
- Covers MariaDB, DNF, and Python 3
- 300+ page reference section covers 102 utilities, including macOS
commands
For use with all popular versions of Linux, including Ubuntu, (TM)
Fedora, (TM) openSUSE, (TM) Red Hat, (R) Debian, Mageia, Mint, Arch,
CentOS, and macOS
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.
Use a Mac? You'll find coverage of the macOS command line, including
macOS-only tools and utilities that other Linux/UNIX titles ignore.
A Practical Guide to Linux(R) Commands, Editors, and Shell
Programming, Fourth Edition, is the only guide to deliver
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A MariaDB chapter to get you started with this ubiquitous relational
database management system (RDBMS)
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A masterful introduction to Python for system administrators and power
users
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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
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Practical explanations of core utilities, from aspell to xargs,
including printf and sshfs/curlftpfs, PLUS macOS-specific utilities
from ditto to SetFile
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Expert guidance on automating remote backups using rsync
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Dozens of system security tips, including step-by-step walkthroughs of
implementing secure communications using ssh and scp
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Tips and tricks for customizing the shell, including step values,
sequence expressions, the eval builtin, and implicit command-line
continuation
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High-productivity editing techniques using vim and emacs
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A comprehensive, 300-plus-page command reference section covering 102
utilities, including find, grep, sort, and tar
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Instructions for updating systems using apt-get and dnf
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And much more, including coverage of BitTorrent, gawk, sed, find,
sort, bzip2, and regular expressions
