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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (18 Feb 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0596006284
ISBN-13: 978-0596006280
Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
Average Customer Review: (8 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,699 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Book Description
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.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

Superb companion to "Linux in a Nutshell", 6 May 2004

By	"ghastro" - See all my reviews

The book is the perfect pocket guide to Linux. Never mind the Fedora slant. This book will introduce you to all the important commands and if you want to take anything further O'Reilly's "Linux in a Nutshell" is the perfect companion.

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Great command reference, 27 Sep 2004

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This is an excellent reference to Linux commands - perfect when you need to get something done, but do not know the command to use, or cannot remember the syntax of a particular command. Top drawer! I have had the O'Reilly "Running Linux" book for a number of years, but this book is a great companion/replacement.

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Excellent, 2 April 2005

By	"jfrost111" - See all my reviews

I don't envy Mr Barrett's task with this book. Everybody has a slightly different wishlist of commands to go in a book like this; it's impossible to please everybody. That said, I think he's got it about as close to perfection as possible. This book has an incredible amount of useful info in a usefully small volume. If like me you can normally remember the command, but always struggle to remember the right option (which one do you add to TAR for BZ2 files?) this book is a godsend.

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