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

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (December 21, 2023) © 2024

  • Mark G. Sobell
  • Matthew Helmke

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  • 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

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