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.

ISBN 0596006284   Pages 200 ISBN13 9780596006280 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA   Weight (grammes) 184 Imprint O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA   Published in Sebastopol Format Paperback   Series title Pocket Guide: Essential Commands Publication date 02 Mar 2004   Height (mm) 179 Library of Congress QA   Width (mm) 114 DEWEY 005.446   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		What's in This Book?		1
		Getting Help		7
		Fedora: A First View		9
		Logins, Logouts, and Shutdowns		11
		The Filesystem		13
		The Shell		20
		Installing Software		33
		Basic File Operations		37
		Directory Operations		41
		File Viewing		43
		File Creation and Editing		51
		File Properties		56
		File Location		65
		File Text Manipulation		71
		File Compression and Packaging		82
		File Comparison		86
		Disks and Filesystems		91
		Backups and Remote Storage		95
		File Printing		101
		Spelling Operations		102
		Viewing Processes		104
		Controlling Processes		108
		Users and Their Environment		110
		Working with User Accounts		115
		Becoming the Superuser		118
		Working with Groups		119
		Basic Host Information		121
		Host Location		124
		Network Connections		128
		Email		132
		Web Browsing		136
		Usenet News		140
		More...

"Whilst there does seem to be a trend amongst many publishers to deliver ever more comprehensive titles, cramming details of almost every command-line switch and GUI option across a huge range of tools and packages, O'Reilly can always be relied upon to publish works that deal concisely with one aspecty of GNU/Linux or excel in offering a psecific functionality. Linux Pocket Guide is exemplary in this respect, cleverly avoiding the unnecessary bloat associated with titles that share the same subject matter - Fedora Linux. Indeed, this highly portable volume manages to kill two birds with one stone, funcitoning both as handy quick reference and an essential introduction to basic everyday tooks and commands. And though Fedora specifics such as desktop and package managerment are covered in some detail, nearly all of the material here could well be applied to almost any distro." Martin Howse, Linux User and Developer, Issue 40 "Can't memorise man pages? This is for you." Linux Format, Oct (top stuff award)

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