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- 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
