Linux Pocket Guide by Barrett, Daniel J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

1. Linux Pocket Guide

What’s in This Book?

What’s New in the Third Edition? What’s Linux? What’s a Distro? What’s a Command?

Shell prompts Command-line warm-up

Reading This Book

Keystrokes Your friend, the echo command Long command lines

Practicing with This Book Getting Help Linux: A First View

Running a Shell Input and Output Users and Superusers

The Filesystem

Home Directories System Directories

Directory path part 1: category Directory path part 2: scope Directory path part 3: application

Operating System Directories File Protections

Shell Features

The Shell Versus Programs Selected Features of the bash Shell

Wildcards Brace expansion Shell variables Search path Aliases Input/output redirection Pipes Process substitution Combining commands Quoting Escaping Command-line editing Command history Filename completion

Shell Job Control Running Multiple Shells at Once Killing a Command in Progress Terminating a Shell Tailoring Shell Behavior

Basic File Operations Directory Operations File Viewing File Creation and Editing

Creating a File Quickly Your Default Editor

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 Email 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

Creating and Running Shell Scripts Whitespace and Linebreaks Variables Input and Output Booleans and Return Codes

test and “[”

Conditionals Loops Command-Line Arguments Exiting with a Return Code Piping to bash Beyond Shell Scripting

Final Words

Acknowledgments

Index

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