Linux in a Nutshell - Brossura

Hekman, Jessica; Weber, Aaron; Siever, Ellen; Figgins, Stephen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0596004826 ISBN 13: 9780596004828

Casa editrice: O'Reilly Media, 2003

Riassunto

Linux in a Nutshell, now in its fourth edition, has won awards in the Linux community as the most indispensable book about Linux. It is an essential desktop reference for the commands that users of Linux utilize every day, with the depth of information and the practical, succinct "In a Nutshell" format that made the previous editions so popular.Comprehensive but concise, Linux in a Nutshell covers all substantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for the most common Linux distributions. It's several quick references rolled into one: sed, gawk, RCS, CVS, vi, Emacs, bash, tcsh, regular expressions, package management, bootloaders, and desktop environments are all covered in this clear, to-the-point volume, along with core command-line utilities.The fourth edition continues to track the major changes in bootloaders, the GNOME and KDE desktops, and general Unix commands. Several commands related to CDs and music reflect the evolution of multimedia on Linux. Coverage has been added for GRUB, which has become the default bootloader on several Linux distributions, and for vim, the popular and feature-loaded extension to vi. The addition of several new options to the iptables firewall command and new commands related to DNSSEC and ssh show the book's value as a security tool. With this book, you no longer have to grope through long manpages and info documents for the information you need; you'll find it here in clear language and an easy-to-read format.Contents include:

• Programming, system administration, networking, and user commands with complete lists of options
• GRUB, LILO, and Loadlin bootloaders
• Shell syntax and variables for the bash, csh, and tcsh shells
• Pattern matching
• Emacs, vi, and vim editing commands
• sed and gawk commands
• The GNOME and KDE desktops and the fvwm2 window manager
• Red Hat and Debian package managers

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L'autore

Ellen Siever is a writer and editor specializing in Linux and other open source topics. In addition to Linux in a Nutshell, she co-authored Perl in a Nutshell. She is a long-time Linux and Unix user, and was a programmer for many years until she decided that writing about computers was more fun.

Stephen Figgins is a programmer, animal tracker, musician and life-long learner. He honed many of his computer skills while working as O'Reilly's book answer guy. Now living in Lawrence, Kansas, he works as a writer, editor and consultant.

Aaron Weber is a technical writer for Ximian, Inc. and wrote the manual for Ximian Evolution, Red Carpet, and Red Carpet Enterprise, as well as a section on GNOME in Running Linux. He's also published in Interex Enterprise Solutions (interex.com) and Boston's Weekly Dig (www.weeklydig.com), and is the host of secretlyironic.com.

Contenuti

Preface; Other Resources; Conventions; We’d Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Excitement of Linux; 1.2 Distribution and Support; 1.3 Commands on Linux; 1.4 What This Book Offers; 1.5 Sources and Licenses; 1.6 Beginner’s Guide; Chapter 2: System and Network Administration Overview; 2.1 Common Commands; 2.2 Overview of Networking; 2.3 Overview of TCP/IP; 2.4 Overview of Firewalls and Masquerading; 2.5 Overview of NFS; 2.6 Overview of NIS; 2.7 Administering NIS; 2.8 RPC and XDR; Chapter 3: Linux Commands; 3.1 Alphabetical Summary of Commands; Chapter 4: Boot Methods; 4.1 The Boot Process; 4.2 LILO: The Linux Loader; 4.3 GRUB: The Grand Unified Bootloader; 4.4 GRUB Commands; 4.5 Loadlin: Booting from MS-DOS; 4.6 Dual-Booting Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP; 4.7 Boot-Time Kernel Options; 4.8 initrd: Using a RAM Disk; Chapter 5: Red Hat and Debian Package Managers; 5.1 The Red Hat Package Manager; 5.2 The Debian Package Manager; Chapter 6: The Linux Shells: An Overview; 6.1 Purpose of the Shell; 6.2 Shell Flavors; 6.3 Common Features; 6.4 Differing Features; Chapter 7: bash: The Bourne-Again Shell; 7.1 Invoking the Shell; 7.2 Syntax; 7.3 Variables; 7.4 Arithmetic Expressions; 7.5 Command History; 7.6 Job Control; 7.7 Built-in Commands; Chapter 8: tcsh: An Extended C Shell; 8.1 Overview of Features; 8.2 Invoking the Shell; 8.3 Syntax; 8.4 Variables; 8.5 Expressions; 8.6 Command History; 8.7 Command-Line Manipulation; 8.8 Job Control; 8.9 Built-in Commands; Chapter 9: Pattern Matching; 9.1 Filenames Versus Patterns; 9.2 Metacharacters, Listed by Linux Program; 9.3 Metacharacters; 9.4 Examples of Searching; Chapter 10: The Emacs Editor; 10.1 Emacs Concepts; 10.2 Typical Problems; 10.3 Notes on the Tables; 10.4 Summary of Commands by Group; 10.5 Summary of Commands by Key; 10.6 Summary of Commands by Name; Chapter 11: The vi Editor; 11.1 Review of vi Operations; 11.2 vi Command-Line Options; 11.3 ex Command-Line Options; 11.4 Movement Commands; 11.5 Edit Commands; 11.6 Saving and Exiting; 11.7 Accessing Multiple Files; 11.8 Window Commands; 11.9 Interacting with the Shell; 11.10 Macros; 11.11 Miscellaneous Commands; 11.12 Alphabetical List of Keys in Command Mode; 11.13 Syntax of ex Commands; 11.14 Alphabetical Summary of ex Commands; 11.15 vi Configuration; Chapter 12: The sed Editor; 12.1 Command-Line Syntax; 12.2 Syntax of sed Commands; 12.3 Group Summary of sed Commands; 12.4 Alphabetical Summary of sed Commands; Chapter 13: The gawk Scripting Language; 13.1 Command-Line Syntax; 13.2 Patterns and Procedures; 13.3 gawk System Variables; 13.4 PROCINFO Array; 13.5 Operators; 13.6 Variable and Array Assignments; 13.7 Group Listing of gawk Commands; 13.8 Alphabetical Summary of Commands; Chapter 14: RCS; 14.1 Overview of RCS Commands; 14.2 Basic RCS Operations; 14.3 General RCS Specifications; 14.4 Alphabetical Summary of RCS Commands; Chapter 15: CVS; 15.1 Basic Concepts; 15.2 CVS Command Format; 15.3 Common Global Options; 15.4 Gotchas; 15.5 CVS Administrator Reference; 15.6 CVS User Reference; Chapter 16: Graphical Desktop Overview; 16.1 Desktop Environments and Window Managers; 16.2 Desktop Differences: Development; Chapter 17: GNOME; 17.1 Desktop Overview; 17.2 The Panel; 17.3 The GNOME Menu and the Menu Panel Menus; 17.4 The GNOME Control Center; 17.5 History and Changes in GNOME 2; Chapter 18: KDE; 18.1 Desktop Overview; 18.2 The Panel; 18.3 The KDE Control Center; Chapter 19: An Alternative Window Manager: fvwm2; 19.1 Running fvwm2; 19.2 Implementing Window Manager Customizations; 19.3 Adding Keyboard Shortcuts; 19.4 Customizing Menus; 19.5 The WinList: Switching the Focus; Colophon;

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: O'Reilly Media
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0596004826
• ISBN 13: 9780596004828
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 930