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Book Description
Linux in a Nutshell, now in its fourth edition, has won awards in the Linux community as the most indispensable book about Linux. It is an essential desktop reference for the commands that users of Linux utilize every day, with the depth of information and the practical, succinct "In a Nutshell" format that made the previous editions so popular.

Comprehensive but concise, Linux in a Nutshell covers all substantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for the most common Linux distributions. It's several quick references rolled into one: sed, gawk, RCS, CVS, vi, Emacs, bash, tcsh, regular expressions, package management, bootloaders, and desktop environments are all covered in this clear, to-the-point volume, along with core command-line utilities.

The fourth edition continues to track the major changes in bootloaders, the GNOME and KDE desktops, and general Unix commands. Several commands related to CDs and music reflect the evolution of multimedia on Linux. Coverage has been added for GRUB, which has become the default bootloader on several Linux distributions, and for vim, the popular and feature-loaded extension to vi. The addition of several new options to the iptables firewall command and new commands related to DNSSEC and ssh show the book's value as a security tool. With this book, you no longer have to grope through long manpages and info documents for the information you need; you'll find it here in clear language and an easy-to-read format.

Contents include:

Programming, system administration, networking, and user commands with complete lists of options

GRUB, LILO, and Loadlin bootloaders

Shell syntax and variables for the bash, csh, and tcsh shells

Pattern matching

Emacs, vi, and vim editing commands

sed and gawk commands

The GNOME and KDE desktops and the fvwm2 window manager

Red Hat and Debian package managers

Synopsis
This is an essential desktop reference for the commands that users of Linux utilize every day, with the depth of information and the practical, succinct "In a Nutshell" format that made the previous editions so popular. Comprehensive but concise, Linux in a Nutshell covers all substantial user, programming, administration, and networking commands for the most common Linux distributions. It's several quick references rolled into one: sed, gawk, RCS, CVS, vi, Emacs, bash, tcsh, regular expressions, package management, bootloaders, and desktop environments are all covered in this clear, to-the-point volume, along with core command-line utilities. The fourth edition continues to track the major changes in bootloaders, the GNOME and KDE desktops, and general Unix commands. Several commands related to CDs and music reflect the evolution of multimedia on Linux. Coverage has been added for GRUB, which has become the default bootloader on several Linux distributions, and for vim, the popular and feature-loaded extension to vi. The addition of several new options to the iptables firewall command and new commands related to DNSSEC and ssh show the book's value as a security tool. With this book, you no longer have to grope through long manpages and info documents for the information you need; you'll find it here in clear language and an easy-to-read format. Contents include:programming, system administration, networking, and user commands with complete lists of options GRUB, LILO, and Loadlin bootloaders; shell syntax and variables for the bash, csh, and tcsh shells; pattern matching; E macs, vi, and vim editing commands sed and gawk commands; the GNOME and KDE desktops and the fvwm2 window manager Red Hat; and Debian package managers.

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Linux Pocket Guide (Pocket Guide: Essential Commands) by Daniel Barrett  (8)  £3.99

Linux Cookbook by Carla Schroder  (2)  £19.99

Linux in Easy Steps (In Easy Steps) by Mike McGrath  (5)  £10.99

Unix in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) by Arnold Robbins  (2)  £15.99

Linux for Dummies (For Dummies) by DeeAnn LeBlanc  (1)  £9.99

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   16 of 19 people found the following review helpful: A starter for all, 14 Oct 2004 By  Open Community "opencomm" - See all my reviews    I found this book to be extremely useful. It greatly improved my understanding of how Linux works and, more importantly, how to use the command line - which is very powerful. It also helped me understand the directory structuring, enabling me to find files that I needed to configure, and these files have been consistantly in the same place with the Distros I have used to date. Excellent!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   41 of 51 people found the following review helpful: Linux in a Nutshell, 13 Nov 2003 By  "firearse" - See all my reviews For anyone who wants to get into the 'nitty-gritty' of Linux, this is ESSENTIAL!!!! More of a book for those who already have an idea of what Linux is all about!  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Probably more suited to Intermediate/Advanced users, 16 Sep 2007 By  Warsteiner (Hampshire, England) - See all my reviews This review is from: Linux in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) (Paperback) I've just started using Linux (Fedora 7) and I was looking for a book that would help me learn the commands and how to do the more tricky things in Linux. The commands in the book are arranged alphabetically, which is not much good if you do no know the command in the first place i.e. if you want to know how to delete a directory you are going to have to know the 'rm' command before being able to jump to the right page in the book. For beginners this isn't recommended (get the Linux Essential Commands Pocket Guide instead) but if you're intermediate/advanced then this is a good book. I've no doubt that I'll refer back to this book in 3/4 months or so but at the moment I won't be using it much.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 5 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews A printed collection of manpages 80% of this book is a collection of printed man-pages, ordered alphabetically, with no major impro