Linux pocket guide

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Table of Contents Linux Pocket Guide What’s in This Book? What’s Linux? What’s a Distro? What’s a Command? Reading This Book Shell prompts Keystrokes Your friend, the echo command Getting Help Linux: A First View The Graphical Desktop 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 The Shell The Shell Versus Programs Selected Features of the bash Shell Wildcards Brace expansion Shell variables Search path Aliases Input/output redirection Pipes Combining commands Quoting Escaping Command-line editing Command history Filename completion Shell Job Control jobs & ^Z suspend bg fg Killing a Command in Progress Terminating a Shell Tailoring Shell Behavior Basic File Operations ls cp mv rm ln Directory Operations cd pwd basename dirname mkdir rmdir File Viewing cat less head tail nl strings od xxd acroread gv xdvi File Creation and Editing Creating a File Quickly Your Default Editor emacs vim soffice abiword gnumeric File Properties stat wc du file touch chown chgrp chmod umask chattr lsattr File Location find xargs locate which type whereis File Text Manipulation grep egrep fgrep cut paste tr sort uniq tee File Compression and Packaging tar gzip bzip2 compress zip metamail File Comparison diff comm cmp md5sum Printing lpr lpq lprm Spell Checking look aspell spell Disks and Filesystems df mount umount fsck sync Backups and Remote Storage dump restore cdrecord rsync mt Viewing Processes ps uptime w top gnome-system-monitor xload free Controlling Processes kill nice renice Scheduling Jobs sleep watch at crontab Logins, Logouts, and Shutdowns shutdown Users and Their Environment logname whoami id who users finger last printenv User Account Management useradd userdel usermod passwd chfn chsh Becoming the Superuser Group Management groups groupadd groupdel groupmod Host Information uname hostname ip ifconfig Host Location host whois ping traceroute Network Connections ssh telnet scp sftp ftp Email thunderbird evolution mutt mail mailq Web Browsing firefox lynx wget Usenet News slrn Instant Messaging gaim talk write mesg tty Screen Output echo printf yes seq clear Math and Calculations xcalc expr dc Dates and Times xclock cal date ntpdate Graphics and Screensavers eog geeqie ksnapshot gimp dia gnuplot xscreensaver Audio xmms grip cdparanoia lame id3tag audacity k3b Video mplayer gxine kino HandBrake Installing Software yum rpm aptitude Programming with Shell Scripts Whitespace and Linebreaks Variables Input and Output Booleans and Return Codes test and “[” true and false Conditionals Loops Break and Continue Creating and Running Shell Scripts Command-Line Arguments Exiting with a Return Code Beyond Shell Scripting Final Words Acknowledgments Index