Everything you need to know about Linux is in this book. Written by Stephen Figgins, Ellen Siever, Robert Love, and Arnold Robbins -- people with years of active participation in the Linux community -- Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition, thoroughly covers programming tools, system and network administration tools, the shell, editors, and LILO and GRUB boot loaders.

This updated edition offers a tighter focus on Linux system essentials, as well as more coverage of new capabilities such as virtualization, wireless network management, and revision control with git. It also highlights the most important options for using the vast number of Linux commands. You'll find many helpful new tips and techniques in this reference, whether you're new to this operating system or have been using it for years.

Get the Linux commands for system administration and network management
Use hundreds of the most important shell commands available on Linux
Understand the Bash shell command-line interpreter
Search and process text with regular expressions
Manage your servers via virtualization with Xen and VMware
Use the Emacs text editor and development environment, as well as the vi, ex, and vim text-manipulation tools
Process text files with the sed editor and the gawk programming language
Manage source code with Subversion and git

Printing History

January 1997: First Edition.
February 1999: Second Edition.
August 2000: Third Edition.

Autor	Ellen Siever
Editorial	O'Reilly
Fecha de publicación	2009
Lugar	Beijing, Sebastopol
Idioma	inglés
Páginas	944
Formato	electronic resource
ISBN-13	9780596154486
OCLC	403436468
LCCN	2010485683
Serie	In a Nutshell