Organization of This Book


This book is a reference to the most important commands and utilities available on Linux systems.

Chapter 1, Introduction, explains Linux's strengths and the key aspects of working with Linux, and lays out the scope of this book.

Chapter 2, System and Network Administration Overview, introduces TCP/IP networking and the Linux commands used for system administration and network management.

Chapter 3, Linux Commands, is the core of the book, a reference listing of hundreds of the most important shell commands available on Linux.

Chapter 4, Boot Methods, covers the commands used to control booting on Linux and dual-booting, particularly LILO, GRUB, and initrd.

Chapter 5, Package Management, explains the apt series of commands that manage updating and installation on Debian, and the RPM system used by Red Hat/Fedora, Novell/SUSE, and several other distributions of Linux.

Chapter 6, The Bash Shell and Korn Shell, documents the default command-line interpreter on Linux, Bash, and another popular interpreter, ksh.

Chapter 7, Pattern Matching, introduces regular expressions and explains how different tools interpret these powerful tools for searching and text processing.

Chapter 8, The Emacs Editor, provides reference information on Emacs, a text editor and full-featured development environment.

Chapter 9, The vi, ex, and vim Editors, describes the classic vi editor that is the most popular text-manipulation tool on Linux.

Chapter 10, The sed Editor, describes this "stream editor" that is useful for processing files in standardized ways.

Chapter 11, The gawk Programming Language, documents another valuable tool for processing text files, the GNU version of awk that is the default on Linux systems.

Chapter 12, Source Code Management: An Overview, provides the background for understanding CVS and Subversion, which are valuable tools for tracking changes to files and projects, and are discussed in the following two chapters.

Chapter 13, The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), provides a description of a popular source code management and version-control tool.

Chapter 14, The Subversion Version Control System, describes what is generally considered the next generation of CVS.



Linux in a Nutshell
Linux in a Nutshell
ISBN: 0596154488
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 147

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