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Linux Desk Reference

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ISBN-10: 0130163910

ISBN-13: 9780130163912

Edition: 2000

Authors: Scott Hawkins

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This is a practical and friendly desk reference for anybody working with Linux. It provides an example for each command listed, to help users who still require some help whilst navigating around the Linux operating system.
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 11/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 545
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Command List
Documentation
apropos, info, locate, man, makewhatis, manpath, updatedb, whatis, whereis
System Structures
Files
chgrp, chmod, chown, cksum, cp, dd, file, install, In lockfile, Is, Isattr, mv, pathchk, rm, stat, sum, symlinks, touch
Process
and, ^Z, bg, fg, fuser, jobs, kill, killall, nice, nohup, pidof, ps, pstree, renice, top
Standard Input Output and Error
], [, 2], ]], , tee, script, xargs
Directories
cd, mkdir, pwd, rmdir, symlinks
Users
chfn, chpasswd, finger, groupmod, grpck, id, passwd, pwck, su, useradd, usderdel, usermod, users, who
Paths
basename, dirname, namei, pathchk
The Bash Shell
Invoking bash, Startup Files, Aliases, Command History, Command Completion, Command Line Editing, Word Designators, Shell Variables, Shell Prompt, Shell Arithmetic, Looping Statements, Conditional Statements, Shell Functions, Builtins
Terminal and Keyboard
captoinfo, clear, dumpkeys, getkeycodes, getty, infocmp, loadkeys, login, setterm, stty, tic, tput, tset
Disks
badblocks, cfdisk, du, fdformat, fdisk, quota, setfdprm
Filesystems
debugfs, df, dumpe2fs, e2fsck, fsck, fsck.minix, fuser, Isattr, Isof, mke2fs, mkfs, mkfs.minix, mklost+found, mkswap, mount, rdev, swapoff, swapon, sync, tune2fs, umount
Printers and Print Queues
Ipc, Ipd, Ipq, Ipr, Iprm, pr, tunelp
Daemons
fingerd, ftpd, gated, gdc, identd, imapd, inetd, klogd, Ipd, mountd, named, pppd, rexecd, rlogind, rcmd, rshd, rwhod, syslogd, talkd, tcpd, telnetd, tftpd, yppasswdd
Machine Information
arch, hostname, hwclock, uname
Kernel
depmod, modprobe, insmod, kerneld, ksyms, Ismod, bdflush, rmmod
Manipulating Data and Text Files
Displaying Files
cat, head, less, look, rev, tac, tail
Comparing G Merging Files
comm, cmp, diff, diff3, sdiff
Data Files
column, colrm, csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, merge, paste, sort, split, tr, unexpand, uniq
Document Formatting
colcrt, eqn, gs, grog, gxditview, tbl, tex, troff, xdvi
The VI Editor
Just Enough to Get By, Stopping and Starting vi, Position Within a File, Searching and Replacing, Adding and Deleting Text, Yanking and Putting, Shell Interaction
Archiving and Compression
compress, cpio, dump, gzexe, gzip, gunzip, restore, shar, uncompress, uuencode, uudecode, zcmp, zdiff, zgrep, zmore, znew
Common Tasks
Startup and Shutdown
dmesg, halt, reboot, poweroff, lilo, rdev, runlevel, shutdown, swapon, swapoff, sync, init, telinit
X Window System
XF86Setup, X, startx, xdm, xf86config, xinit, xmseconfig, xterm, xvidtune
Scheduling
at, atq, atrm, batch, crontab, sleep, usleep
Finding Stuff
egrep, find, finger, fgrep, grep, locate, updatedb, which
Diagnostics and System Performance
df, dmesg, free, ipcs, ps, pstree, runlevel, tload, top, vmstat, who
Security
ipfwadm, pgpe, pgpk, pgps, pgpv
Miscellaneous
cal, date, fortune, ispell, rpm, strfile
Networking
Tcp/Ip
arp, bootpd, bootptab, bootpgw, bootptest, dip, hostname, gated, gdc, ifconfig, in.identd, netstat, nslookup, rmail, route, routed, rusers, tcpdchk, tcpdmatch, traceroute
Networking Applications
ftp, hostname, netstat, ping, rarp, rcp, rdate, rdist, rlogin, rsh, rusers, rwall, rwho, telnet, tftp
Nis and Nfs
domainname, nisdomainname, ypdomainname, makedbm, ypbind, ypcat, yppasswd, ypinit, yppoll, yppush, ypserv, ypset, ypwhich, ypxfer
Dos and Windows Connectivity
mattrib, mbadblocks, mcd, mdel, mdeltree, mdir, mdu, mformat, mlabel, mmd, mrd, mmove, mtype, xcopy, nmbd, smbclient, smbd, smbmount, smbstatus, smbumount, testparm
Mail and Other Communication
biff, elm, fetchmail, formail, mail, makemap, mesg, mimencode, rmail, rwall, sendmail, talk, uuencode, wall, write
Glossary
Index