Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Aaron Weber

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This concise handbook lists the syntax and options available for hundreds of Linux operating system commands, and reviews network administration, boot methods, package managers, shells, editors, and the gawk programming language. The fifth edition deletes the chapters on desktop and windows management, and adds a closing chapter on the Subversion version control system. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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November 11, 2005: Do you need quick access to information on a wide range of tools? Well, you're in luck! Authors Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love and Arnold Robbins, have done an outstanding job of writing the fifth edition of a book about Linux. This is a freely available clone of the Unix operating system whose uses range from embedded systems and PDAs to corporate servers, web servers, and massive clusters that perform some of the world's most difficult computations. Siever, Weber, Figgins, Love and Robbins begin by explaining Linux's strengths and the key aspects of working with Linux, and lay out the scope of this book. Next, the authors introduce TCP/IP networking and the Linux commands used for system administration and network management. Then, they present a reference listing of hundreds of the most important shell commands available on Linux. The authors continue by covering the commands used to control booting on Linux and dual-booting, particularly LILO, GRUB, and initrd. In addition, the authors next explain the apt series of commands that manage updating and installation on Debian, and the RPM system used by Red Hat/Fedora, Novell/SUSE, and several other distributions of Linux. They also document the default command-line interpreter on Linux, Bash, and another popular interpreter, ksh. Next, the authors introduce regular expressions and explain how different tools interpret these powerful tools for searching and text processing. Then, they provide reference information on Emacs, a text editor and full-featured development environment. The authors continue by describing the classic vi editor that is the most popular text-manipulation tool on Linux. In addition, the authors then describe the Stream editor that is useful for processing files in standardized ways. They also document another valuable tool for processing text files, the GNU version of awk that is the default on Linux systems. Next, the authors provide the background for understanding CVS and Subversion, which are valuable tools for tracking changes to files and projects. Then, they provide a description of a popular source code management and version-control tool. Finally, they describe what is generally considered the next generation of CVS. With the preceding in mind, the authors have also done an excellent job of writing a quick reference guide for the basic commands and features of the Linux operating system. So, at the end of the day, with this book, you'll know what you want to do and how to do it with the correct command or option!