A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming Author: Mark G. Sobell | Language: English | ISBN:
013308504X | Format: PDF
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming Description
“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
New Chapters on Python and MySQL–Covers Perl, too!
Learn from hundreds of realistic, high-quality examples, and become a true Linux command-line guru!
NEW! Covers busybox, Midnight Commander, screen, and sshfs/curlftpf
Covers the Mac OS X command line and its unique tools
295-page reference covers 98 utilities, including Mac OS X commands!
For use with all popular versions of Linux, including Ubuntu™, Fedora™, openSUSE™, Red Hat®, Debian, Mageia, Mint, Arch, CentOS, and Mac OS X, too!
The Most Useful Tutorial and Reference, with Hundreds of High-Quality Examples for Every Popular Linux Distribution
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.
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 Mac OS X command line, including OS X-only tools and utilities other Linux/UNIX titles ignore. Sobell presents a new MySQL chapter. There’s even an expert introduction to Python–today’s most valuable tool for automating complex, time-consuming administration tasks.
A Practical Guide to Linux® Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Third Edition, is the only guide to deliver
A MySQL chapter to get you started with this ubiquitous relational database management system (RDBMS)
A masterful introduction to Python for system administrators and power users
New coverage of the busybox single binary collection of utilities, the screen terminal session manager/multiplexer, and the mc (Midnight Commander) textual file manager, plus a new chapter on using ssh for secure communication
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
Practical explanations of 98 core utilities, from aspell to xargs, including printf and sshfs/curlftpfs, PLUS Mac OS X-specific utilities from ditto to SetFile
Expert guidance on automating remote backups using rsync
Dozens of system security tips, including step-by-step walkthroughs of implementing secure communications using ssh and scp
Tips and tricks for customizing the shell, including step values, sequence expressions, the eval builtin, and implicit command-line continuation
High-productivity editing techniques using vim and emacs
A comprehensive, 295-page command reference section covering 98 utilities, including find, grep, sort, and tar
Instructions for updating systems using apt-get and yum
And much more, including coverage of BitTorrent, gawk, sed, find, sort, bzip2, and regular expressions
- Paperback: 1200 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (September 24, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 013308504X
- ISBN-13: 978-0133085044
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
DISCLAIMER/DISCLOSURE: The publisher furnished me with a complimentary paperback copy of the third edition, as well as access to ebook versions. I have received no compensation for this review.
My review largely pertains to both the hardcopy/paperback version and the EPUB ebook version. I will point out where the ebook and hardcopy versions differ in this review. I do not own a Kindle or use any other MOBI format ebook reader, so your mileage may vary when reading the Kindle version of this book.
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I have now read three editions of this book, and this third edition upholds the standard as the best distribution-agnostic Linux reference I have ever seen, out of dozens of Linux-related books I have read. It is in fact more than a reference, as most chapters serve as in-depth tutorials as well, such that starting at the beginning of a chapter that covers the subject matter you need to learn at the level of understanding you need, and reading to the end of the chapter, provides a solid foundation in that subject.
This is a book about practical skills with practical tools. It largely eschews the approach of many Linux books that describe the most immediate and obvious interfaces to accomplishing trivial tasks in a default install of a specific Linux distribution.
With the 3rd edition of this book, "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors and Shell Programming" only got better.
I say this with a reasonable bias and favoritism towards Linux, its command line interface which I consider some of the most versatile
and best engineering accomplishments and towards this book, which has been my favorite since the first edition.
The first edition of the book, was the manual, reference and tutorial all in one that I have been looking for a long time. I have been looking for a book that takes me into the command line world of Linux but in a methodical way describing all the little options, tips, tricks but also the principles that make Linux shell so powerful.
Book begins with a brief history of Linux and very informative, relevant overview of the system architecture.
It proceeds with the in depth, hands on walkthrogugh the environment, shells, and command line utilities.
There is a very useful and every-day practical exercise at the end of the each chapter.
Book continues with in depth chapters on Linux filesystem, the shell, editors (emacs and vi) and the programming environment including (g)awk and sed. This third version of the book now covers the OSX's command line interface which is very nice.
The best, and for me,the ultimate buy-in factor for the third edition, is the brand new chapter covering to reasonable depth Python.
There is also a full, new chapter on MySQL. (That Sobell added a chapter on Postgres, I would give him six stars :-) )
Book concludes with excellend command reference section (300 pages) and Appendix on regular expressions (superb),
getting help with Linux and keeping the system up to date (using rpm, yum apt-get and bit torrent).
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