A practical guide to Linux commands, editors, and shell programming
Book - 2013
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Upper Saddle River, NJ :
Prentice Hall
c2013.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 3rd ed
- Physical Description
- l, 1154 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN
- 9780133085044
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Welcome to Linux and Mac OS X
- The History of UNIX and GNU-Linux
- What Is So Good About Linux?
- Overview of Linux
- Additional Features of Linux
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Part I. The Linux and Mac OS X Operating Systems
- Chapter 2. Getting Started
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Logging In from a Terminal (Emulator)
- Working from the Command Line
- Su/sudo: Curbing Your Power (root Privileges)
- Where to Find Documentation
- More About Logging In and Passwords
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 3. The Utilities
- Special Characters
- Basic Utilities
- Working with Files
- (Pipeline): Communicates Between Processes
- Four More Utilities
- Compressing and Archiving Files
- Locating Utilities
- Displaying User and System Information
- Communicating with Other Users
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 4. The Filesystem
- The Hierarchical Filesystem
- Directory Files and Ordinary Files
- Pathnames
- Working with Directories
- Access Permissions
- ACLs: Access Control Lists
- Links
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 5. The Shell
- The Command Line
- Standard Input and Standard Output
- Running a Command in the Background
- Filename Generation/Pathname Expansion
- Builtins
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Part II. The Editors
- Chapter 6. The vim Editor
- History
- Tutorial: Using vim to Create and Edit a File
- Introduction to vim Features
- Command Mode: Moving the Cursor
- Input Mode
- Command Mode: Deleting and Changing Text
- Searching and Substituting
- Miscellaneous Commands
- Copying, Moving, and Deleting Text
- Reading and Writing Files
- Setting Parameters
- Advanced Editing Techniques
- Units of Measure
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 7. The emacs Editor
- History
- Tutorial: Getting Started with emacs
- Basic Editing Commands
- Online Help
- Advanced Editing
- Major Modes: Language-Sensitive Editing
- Customizing emacs
- More Information
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Part III. The Shells
- Chapter 8. The Bourne Again Shell (bash)
- Background
- Startup Files
- Commands That Are Symbols
- Redirecting Standard Error
- Writing and Executing a Simple Shell Script
- Control Operators: Separate and Group Commands
- Job Control
- Manipulating the Directory Stack
- Parameters and Variables
- Special Characters
- Locale
- Time
- Processes
- History
- Aliases
- Functions
- Controlling bash: Features and Options
- Processing the Command Line
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 9. The TC Shell (tcsh)
- Shell Scripts
- Entering and Leaving the TC Shell
- Features Common to the Bourne Again and TC Shells
- Redirecting Standard Error
- Working with the Command Line
- Variables
- Control Structures
- Builtins
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Part IV. Programming Tools
- Chapter 10. Programming the Bourne Again Shell (bash)
- Control Structures
- File Descriptors
- Parameters
- Variables
- Builtin Commands
- Expressions
- Implicit Command-Line Continuation
- Shell Programs
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 11. The Perl Scripting Language
- Introduction to Perl
- Variables
- Control Structures
- Working with Files
- Sort
- Subroutines
- Regular Expressions
- CPAN Modules
- Examples
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 12. The Python Programming Language
- Introduction
- Scalar Variables, Lists, and Dictionaries
- Control Structures
- Reading from and Writing to Files
- Regular Expressions
- Defining a Function
- Using Libraries
- Lambda Functions
- List Comprehensions
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 13. The MySQL Database Management System
- Notes
- Installing a MySQL Server and Client
- Client Options
- Setting Up MySQL
- Creating a Database
- Adding a User
- Examples
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Chapter 14. The AWK Pattern Processing Language
- Syntax
- Arguments
- Options
- Notes
- Language Basics
- Examples
- Advanced gawk Programming
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- Chapter 15. The sed Editor
- Syntax
- Arguments
- Options
- Editor Basics
- Examples
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Part V. Secure Network Utilities
- Chapter 16. The rsync Secure Copy Utility
- Syntax
- Arguments
- Options
- Examples
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Chapter 17. The OpenSSH Secure Communication Utilities
- Introduction to OpenSSH
- Running the ssh, scp, and sftp OpenSSH Clients
- Tunneling/Port Forwarding
- Chapter Summary
- Exercises
- Advanced Exercises
- 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
- Sample: Brief description of what the utility does
- Aspell: Checks a file for spelling errors
- At: Executes commands at a specified time
- Busybox: Implements many standard utilities
- Bzip2: Compresses or decompresses files
- Cal: Displays a calendar
- Cat: Joins and displays files
- Cd: Changes to another working directory
- Chgrp: Changes the group associated with a file
- Chmod: Changes the access mode (permissions) of a file
- Chown: Changes the owner of a file and/or the group the file is associated with
- Cmp: Compares two files
- Comm: Compares sorted files
- Configure: Configures source code automatically
- Cp: Copies files
- Cpio: Creates an archive, restores files from an archive, or copies a directory hierarchy
- Crontab: Maintains crontab files
- Cut: Selects characters or fields from input lines
- Date: Displays or sets the system time and date
- Dd: Converts and copies a file
- Df: Displays disk space usage
- Diff: Displays the differences between two text files
- Diskutil: Checks, modifies, and repairs local volumes (OS X)
- Ditto: Copies files and creates and unpacks archives (OS X)
- Dmesg: Displays kernel messages
- Dscl: Displays and manages Directory Service information (OS X)
- Du: Displays information on disk usage by directory hierarchy and/or file
- Echo: Displays a message
- Expand/unexpand: Converts TABs to SPACEs and SPACEs to TABs
- Expr: Evaluates an expression
- File: Displays the classification of a file
- Find: Finds files based on criteria
- Finger: Displays information about users
- Fmt: Formats text very simply
- Fsck: Checks and repairs a filesystem
- Ftp: Transfers files over a network
- Gawk: Searches for and processes patterns in a file
- Gcc: Compiles C and C++ programs
- GetFileInfo: Displays file attributes (OS X)
- Grep: Searches for a pattern in files
- Gzip: Compresses or decompresses files
- Head: Displays the beginning of a file
- Join: Joins lines from two files based on a common field
- Kill: Terminates a process by PID
- Killall: Terminates a process by name
- Launchctl: Controls the launchd daemon (OS X)
- Less: Displays text files, one screen at a time
- Ln: Makes a link to a file
- Lpr: Sends files to printers
- Ls: Displays information about one or more files
- Make: Keeps a set of programs current
- Man: Displays documentation for utilities
- Mc: Manages files in a textual environment (aka Midnight Commander)
- Mkdir: Creates a directory
- Mkfs: Creates a filesystem on a device
- Mv: Renames or moves a file
- Nice: Changes the priority of a command
- Nl: Numbers lines from a file
- Nohup: Runs a command that keeps running after you log out
- Od: Dumps the content of a file
- Open: Opens files, directories, and URLs (OS X)
- Otool: Displays object, library, and executable files (OS X)
- Paste: Joins corresponding lines from files
- Pax: Creates an archive, restores files from an archive, or copies a directory hierarchy
- Plutil: Manipulates property list files (OS X)
- Pr: Paginates files for printing
- Printf: Formats string and numeric data
- Ps: Displays process status
- Renice: Changes the priority of a process
- Rm: Removes a file (deletes a link)
- Rmdir: Removes directories
- Rsync: Copies files and directory hierarchies securely over a network
- Scp: Securely copies one or more files to or from a remote system
- Screen: Manages several textual windows
- Sed: Edits a file noninteractively
- SetFile: Sets file attributes (OS X)
- Sleep: Creates a process that sleeps for a specified interval
- Sort: Sorts and/or merges files
- Split: Divides a file into Sections
- Ssh: Securely executes commands on a remote system
- Sshfs/curlftpfs: Mounts a directory on an OpenSSH or FTP server as a local directory
- Stat: Displays information about files
- Strings: Displays strings of printable characters from files
- Stty: Displays or sets terminal parameters
- Sysctl: Displays and alters kernel variables at runtime
- Tail: Displays the last part (tail) of a file
- Tar: Stores or retrieves files to/from an archive file
- Tee: Copies standard input to standard output and one or more files
- Telnet: Connects to a remote computer over a network
- Test: Evaluates an expression
- Top: Dynamically displays process status
- Touch: Creates a file or changes a file's access and/or modification time
- Tr: Replaces specified characters
- Tty: Displays the terminal pathname
- Tune2fs: Changes parameters on an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem
- Umask: Specifies the file-creation permissions mask
- Uniq: Displays unique lines from a file
- W: Displays information about local system users
- Wc: Displays the number of lines, words, and bytes in one or more files
- Which: Shows where in PATH a utility is located
- Who: Displays information about logged-in users
- Xargs: Converts standard input to command lines
- Part VII. Appendixes
- Appendix A. Regular Expressions
- Characters
- Delimiters
- Simple Strings
- Special Characters
- Rules
- Bracketing Expressions
- The Replacement String
- Extended Regular Expressions
- Appendix Summary
- Appendix B. Help
- Solving a Problem
- Finding Linux and OS X Related Information
- Specifying a Terminal
- Appendix C. Keeping the System Up-to-Date
- Using yum
- Using apt-get
- BitTorrent
- Appendix D. Mac OS X Notes
- Open Directory
- Filesystems
- Extended Attributes
- Activating the Terminal META Key
- Startup Files
- Remote Logins
- Many Utilities Do Not Respect Apple Human Interface Guidelines
- Installing Xcode and MacPorts
- Mac OS X Implementation of Linux Features
- Glossary
- File Tree Index
- Utility Index
- Main Index 1111