Linux Pocket Guide

O’Reilly’s Pocket Guides have earned a reputation as inexpensive, comprehensive, and compact guides that have the stuff but not the fluff. Every page of Linux Pocket Guide lives up to this billing. It clearly explains how to get up to speed quickly on day-to-day Linux use. Once you’re up and running, Linux Pocket Guide provides an easy-to-use reference that you can keep by your keyboard for those times when you want a fast, useful answer, not hours in the man pages.

Linux Pocket Guide is organized the way you use Linux: by function, not just alphabetically. It’s not the ‘bible of Linux; it’s a practical and concise guide to the options and commands you need most. It starts with general concepts like files and directories, the shell, and X windows, and then presents detailed overviews of the most essential commands, with clear examples. You’ll learn each command’s purpose, usage, options, location on disk, and even the RPM package that installed it.

The Linux Pocket Guide is tailored to Fedora Linux–the latest spin-off of Red Hat Linux–but most of the information applies to any Linux system.

Throw in a host of valuable power user tips and a friendly and accessible style, and you’ll quickly find this practical, to-the-point book a small but mighty resource for Linux users.

Table of Contents

1. What’s in This Book?
2. Getting Help
3. Fedora: A First View
4. Logins, Logouts, and Shutdowns
5. The Filesystem
6. The Shell
7. Installing Software
8. tar.gz and tar.bz2 files
9. Basic File Operations
10. Directory Operations
11. File Viewing
12. File Creation and Editing
13. File Properties
14. File Location
15. File Text Manipulation
16. More Powerful Manipulations
17. File Compression and Packaging
18. File Comparison
19. Disks and Filesystems
20. Partitioning and Formatting Disks
21. Backups and Remote Storage
22. File Printing
23. Spelling Operations
24. Viewing Processes
25. Controlling Processes
26. Users and Their Environment
27. Working with User Accounts
28. Becoming the Superuser
29. Working with Groups
30. Basic Host Information
31. Host Location
32. Network Connections
33. Email
34. Web Browsing
35. Usenet News
36. Instant Messaging
37. Screen Output
38. Math and Calculations
39. Dates and Times
40. Scheduling Jobs
41. Graphics and Screensavers
42. Audio and Video
43. Programming with Shell Scripts
44. Final Words

Book Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (February 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596006284
• ISBN-13: 978-0596006280