Ten Steps to Linux Survival
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9780596517748
Ten Steps to Linux Survival
Ten Steps to Linux Survival
Introduction
Batteries Not Included
Please, Give (Suggestions) Generously
Why?
Caveat Administrator
Conventions
How to Get There from Here
Acknowledgments
Some History
Why Does This Matter?
Panic at the Distro
Get Embed With Me
Cygwin
Come Out of Your Shell
bash Built-Ins
Everything You Know is (Almost) Wrong
You're a Product of Your Environment (Variables)
Who Am I?
Paths (a Part of Any Balanced Shrubbery)
Open Your Shell and Interact
Getting Lazy
File Under "Directories"
Looking at Files
A Brief Detour Around Parameters
More Poking at Files
Sorting Things Out
Rearranging Deck Chairs
Making Files Disappear
touch Me
Navigating Through Life
May I?
"I'll Send You a Tar Ball"
Let's link Up!
I Said "Go Away!", Dammit!
mount It? I Don't Even Know It's Name!
I'm Seeing Double
What's the diff?
Finding Meaning
What's With the Backslashes?
Useful find Options
Useful find Actions
Grokking grep
Expressing Yourself Regularly
Groveling With grep
Gawking at awk
“Just a Series of Pipes”
All Magic is Redirection
Everyone Line Up
vi
Command Me
Undo Me
Circumnavigating vi
Insert Tab A Into Slot B
Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V
Change Machine
"X" Marks the Spot
Executing External Commands
The Unseen World
Let's Get Small
Editing on the Command Line
The Whole Wide World
sudo Make Me a Sandwich
Surfin' the Command Prompt
It's Nice to Share
You've Got Mail
Let's Connect
Network Configuration
The Man Behind the Curtain
All Part of the Process
When All You Have is a Hammer
Sawing Logs
It's All Temporary
How Do You Know What You Don’t Know, man?
man, is that info apropos?
How Do You Google, man?
Books and Stuff
And So On
One-Stop Shopping
Service Station
Package Management
Other Sources
Which which is Which?
Over and Over and Over
Start Me Up
Turn on Your Signals
Exit, Smiling
The End
Appendices
Cheat Sheet
Environment Variables
Conditional Execution
Redirection
Special Files and Directories
System Directories
Commands
System Commands
Examples
Keep It Simple, Stupid
Chain Gangs
Simple Scripts
Colophon
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