A practical guide to Linux commands, editors, and shell programming

Summary:

Linux is now the world's dominant Internet server platform: from Google to Amazon, it's at the heart of the world's most sophisticated technical infrastructures. As a result, more technical professionals need to be proficient with Linux than ever before. It's not enough for them to navigate a graphical user interface: real power comes only from the command line and Linux's massive collection of command line utilities. For years, Mark G. Sobell's A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming has been the gold standard reference to the Linux command line and utilities. Compact, concise, comprehensive, and distribution-agnostic, it's packed with carefully-constructed real-world examples and clear explanations focused on Linux's most useful utilities and options. Now, Sobell has thoroughly updated this indispensable classic to cover even more of Linux's best tools, and to offer complete primers on Linux's leading database (MySQL) and scripting language (Python). - Publisher.

This indispensable classic packed with carefully-constructed real-world examples and clear explanations focused on Linux's most useful utilities and options now covers even more of Linux's best tools and offers complete primers on Linux's leading database (MySQL) and scripting language (Python).

Linus is today's dominant Internet server platform. System administrators and Web developers need deep Linux fluency, including expert knowledge of shells and the command line. This guide will help you achieve that level of Linus mastery.

Contents:

Welcome to Linux and Mac OS X
Part 1 : The Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. Getting started
The utilities
The filesystem
The shell
Part 2 : The editors. The vim editor
The emacs editor
Part 3 : The shells. The Bourne again shell (bash)
The TC shell (tcsh)
Part 4 : Programming tools. Programming the Bourne again shell (bash)
The perl scripting language
The Python programming language
The MySQL database management system
The awk pattern processing language
The sed editor
Part 5 : Secure network utilities. The rsync copy utility
The OpenSSH secure communication utilities
Part 6 : Command reference. Command reference
Part 7 : Appendixes. Regular expressions
Help
Keeping the system up-to-date
Mac OS X notes
Glossary.