Linux Phrasebook
- Linux: Phrasebook
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Part I: Getting Started
- Chapter 1. Things to Know About Your Command Line
- Everything Is a File
- Maximum Filename Lengths
- Names Are Case-Sensitive
- Special Characters to Avoid in Names
- Wildcards and What They Mean
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. The Basics
- List Files and Folders
- List the Contents of Other Folders
- List Folder Contents Using Wildcards
- View a List of Files in Subfolders
- View a List of Contents in a Single Column
- View Contents As a Comma-Separated List
- View Hidden Files and Folders
- Visually Display a File s Type
- Display Contents in Color
- List Permissions, Ownership, and More
- Reverse the Order Contents are Listed
- Sort Contents by File Extension
- Sort Contents by Date and Time
- Sort Contents by Size
- Express File Sizes in Terms of K, M, and G
- Display the Path of Your Current Directory
- Change to a Different Directory
- Change to Your Home Directory
- Change to Your Previous Directory
- Change a File to the Current Time
- Change a File to Any Desired Time
- Create a New, Empty File
- Create a New Directory
- Create a New Directory and Any Necessary Subdirectories
- Find Out What mkdir Is Doing As It Acts
- Copy Files
- Copy Files Using Wildcards
- Copy Files Verbosely
- Stop Yourself from Copying over Important Files
- Copy Directories
- Copy Files As Perfect Backups in Another Directory
- Move and Rename Files
- Rename Files and Folders
- Delete Files
- Remove Several Files At Once with Wildcards
- Remove Files Verbosely
- Stop Yourself from Deleting Key Files
- Delete an Empty Directory
- Remove Files and Directories That Aren t Empty
- Delete Troublesome Files
- Become Another User
- Become Another User, with His Environment Variables
- Become root
- Become root, with Its Environment Variables
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Learning About Commands
- Find Out About Commands with man
- Search for a Command Based on What It Does
- Quickly Find Out What a Command Does Based on Its Name
- Rebuild man s Database of Commands
- Read a Command s Specific Man Page
- Print Man Pages
- Learn About Commands with info
- Navigate Within info
- Locate the Paths for a Command s Executable, Source Files, and Man Pages
- Read Descriptions of Commands
- Find a Command Based on What It Does
- Find Out Which Version of a Command Will Run
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Building Blocks
- Run Several Commands Sequentially
- Run Commands Only If the Previous Ones Succeed
- Run a Command Only If the Previous One Fails
- Plug the Output of a Command into Another Command
- Understand InputOutput Streams
- Use the Output of One Command As Input for Another
- Redirect a Command s Output to a File
- Prevent Overwriting Files When Using Redirection
- Append a Command s Output to a File
- Use a File As Input for a Command
- Conclusion
- Part II: Working with Files
- Chapter 5. Viewing Files
- View Files on stdout
- Concatenate Files to stdout
- Concatenate Files to Another File
- Concatenate Files and Number the Lines
- View Text Files a Screen at a Time
- Search Within Your Pager
- Edit Files Viewed with a Pager
- View the First 10 Lines of a File
- View the First 10 Lines of Several Files
- View the First Several Lines of a File or Files
- View the First Several Bytes, Kilobytes, or Megabytes of a File
- View the Last 10 Lines of a File
- View the Last 10 Lines of Several Files
- View the Last Several Lines of a File or Files
- View the Constantly Updated Last Lines of a File or Files
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Printing and Managing Print Jobs
- List All Available Printers
- Determine Your Default Printer
- Find Out How Your Printers Are Connected
- Get All the Information About Your Printers at Once
- Print Files to the Default Printer
- Print Files to Any Printer
- Print More Than One Copy of a File
- List Print Jobs
- List Print Jobs by Printer
- Cancel the Current Print Job Sent to the Default Printer
- Cancel a Print Job Sent to Any Printer
- Cancel All Print Jobs
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Ownerships and Permissions
- Change the Group Owning Files and Directories
- Recursively Change the Group Owning a Directory
- Keep Track of Changes Made to a File s Group with chgrp
- Change the Owner of Files and Directories
- Change the Owner and Group of Files and Directories
- Understand the Basics of Permissions
- Change Permissions on Files and Directories Using Alphabetic Notation
- Change Permissions on Files and Directories Using Numeric Permissions
- Change Permissions Recursively
- Set and Then Clear suid
- Set and Then Clear sgid
- Set and Then Clear the Sticky Bit
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Archiving and Compression
- Archive and Compress Files Using zip
- Get the Best Compression Possible with zip
- Password-Protect Compressed Zip Archives
- Unzip Files
- List Files That Will Be Unzipped
- Test Files That Will Be Unzipped
- Archive and Compress Files Using gzip
- Archive and Compress Files Recursively Using gzip
- Get the Best Compression Possible with gzip
- Uncompress Files Compressed with gzip
- Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with gunzip
- Archive and Compress Files Using bzip2
- Get the Best Compression Possible with bzip2
- Uncompress Files Compressed with bzip2
- Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with bunzip
- Archive Files with tar
- Archive and Compress Files with tar and gzip
- Test Files That Will Be Untarred and Uncompressed
- Untar and Uncompress Files
- Conclusion
- Part III: Finding Stuff
- Chapter 9. Finding Stuff: Easy
- Search a Database of Filenames
- Search a Database of Filenames Without Worrying About Case
- Manage Results Received When Searching a Database of Filenames
- Update the Database Used by locate
- Searching Inside Text Files for Patterns
- The Basics of Searching Inside Text Files for Patterns
- Search Recursively for Text in Files
- Search for Text in Files, Ignoring Case
- Search for Whole Words Only in Files
- Show Line Numbers Where Words Appear in Files
- Search the Output of Other Commands for Specific Words
- See Context for Words Appearing in Files
- Show Lines Where Words Do Not Appear in Files
- List Files Containing Searched-for Words
- Search for Words Inside Search Results
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10. The find Command
- Find Files by Name
- Find Files by Ownership
- Find Files by Group Ownership
- Find Files by File Size
- Find Files by File Type
- Show Results If the Expressions Are True (AND)
- Show Results If Either Expression Is True (OR)
- Show Results If the Expression Is Not True (NOT)
- Execute a Command on Every Found File
- Print Find Results into a File
- Conclusion
- Part IV: Environment
- Chapter 11. Your Shell
- View Your Command-Line History
- Run the Last Command Again
- Run a Previous Command Using Numbers
- Run a Previous Command Using a String
- Display All Command Aliases
- View a Specific Command Alias
- Create a New Temporary Alias
- Create a New Permanent Alias
- Remove an Alias
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12. Monitoring System Resources
- View All Currently Running Processes
- View a Process Tree
- View Processes Owned by a Particular User
- End a Running Process
- View a Dynamically Updated List of Running Processes
- List Open Files
- List a User s Open Files
- List Users for a Particular File
- List Processes for a Particular Program
- Display Information About System RAM
- Show File System Disk Usage
- Report File Space Used by a Directory
- Report Just the Total Space Used for a Directory
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13. Installing Software
- Install Software Packages for RPM-Based Distributions
- Remove Software Packages for RPM-Based Distributions
- Install Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions
- Remove Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions
- Upgrade Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions
- Find Packages Available for Download for RPM-Based Distributions
- Install Software Packages for Debian
- Remove Software Packages for Debian
- Install Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian
- Remove Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian
- Upgrade Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian
- Find Packages Available for Download for Debian
- Clean Up Unneeded Installation Packages for Debian
- Troubleshoot Problems with apt
- Conclusion
- Part V: Networking
- Chapter 14. Connectivity
- View the Status of Your Network Interfaces
- Verify That a Computer Is Running and Accepting Requests
- Trace the Route Packets Take Between Two Hosts
- Perform DNS Lookups
- Configure a Network Interface
- View the Status of Your Wireless Network Interfaces
- Configure a Wireless Network Interface
- Grab a New Address Using DHCP
- Make a Network Connection Active
- Bring a Network Connection Down
- Display Your IP Routing Table
- Change Your IP Routing Table
- Troubleshooting Network Problems
- Conclusion
- Chapter 15. Working on the Network
- Securely Log In to Another Computer
- Securely Log In to Another Machine Without a Password
- Securely Transfer Files Between Machines
- Securely Copy Files Between Hosts
- Securely Transfer and Back Up Files
- Download Files Non-interactively
- Download Websites Non-interactively
- Download Sequential Files and Internet Resources
- Conclusion
- Chapter 16. Windows Networking
- Discover the Workgroup s Master Browsers
- Query and Map NetBIOS Names and IP Addresses
- List a Machine s Samba Shares
- Access Samba Resources with an FTP-Like Client
- Mount a Samba Filesystem
- Conclusion
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