Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, A, 4th edition

  • Mark G. Sobell
  • Matthew Helmke

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Welcome to Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming uCertify Labs

Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming uCertify Labs is an online, hands-on skills enhancement tool that helps students master Linux. The 55+ labs in this product cover the full range of core concepts of Linux. 

The award-winning, uCertify Labs help bridge the gap between conceptual knowledge and real-world application by providing, competency-based, interactive, online, 24x7 training. uCertify Labs simulate real-world networking hardware, software applications and operating systems, and command line interfaces.

uCertify Labs build upon the same great platform benefits and flexibility that have become synonymous with the uCertify Courses. Students can feel safe working in this virtual environment resolving real-world operating system and hardware problems. You can plan your studies using Study Planner and use one of the three available study modes - Test, Learn or Review to suit your learning style.

Table of contents

  • Preface
  • 1: Welcome to Linux and Mac OS X
  • Part I: The Linux and Mac OS X Operating Systems
  • 2: Getting Started
  • 3: The Utilities
  • 4: The Filesystem
  • 5: The Shell
  • Part II: The Editors
  • 6: The vim Editor
  • 7: The emacs Editor
  • Part III: The Shells
  • 8: The Bourne Again Shell (bash)
  • 9: The TC Shell (tcsh)
  • Part IV: Programming Tools
  • 10: Programming the Bourne Again Shell (bash)
  • 11: The Perl Scripting Language
  • 12: The Python Programming Language
  • 13: The MySQL Database Management System
  • 14: The AWK Pattern Processing Language
  • 15: The sed Editor
  • Part V: Secure Network Utilities
  • 16: The rsync Secure Copy Utility
  • 17: The OpenSSH Secure Communication Utilities
  • Part VI: Command Reference
  • Utilities That Display and Manipulate Files
  • Network Utilities
  • Utilities That Display and Alter Status
  • Utilities That Are Programming Tools
  • Miscellaneous Utilities
  • Standard Multiplicative Suffixes
  • Common Options
  • The Sample Utility
  • Part VII: Appendices
  • Appendix A: Regular Expressions
  • Appendix B: Help
  • Appendix C: Keeping the System Up-to-Date
  • Appendix D: Mac OS X Notes
  • Glossary
  • File Tree Index
  • Utility Index
  • Main Index

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