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Linux Phrasebook

by: Granneman, Scott

Linux Phrasebook

by: Granneman, Scott

ISBN 13:
9780672328381
ISBN 10:
0672328380
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/12/2006
Publisher: Sams Publishing
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Summary

Linux Phrasebookis sure to become the pocket guide that you keep within reach at all times. This concise, handy reference can be used "in the street," just like a language phrasebook. Skipping the usual tutorial on Linux, theLinux Phrasebookgoes straight to practical Linux uses, providing immediate applicable solutions for day-to-day tasks. It includes code phrases that allow Linux users to employ the command line to complete onerous and repetitive tasks, as well as flexible code and commands can be customized to meet the needs of any Linux user. The concise information combined with random accessibility makes theLinux Phrasebooka robust, yet agile, reference guide that no Linux user should be without.

Introduction

(4)

Audience for This Book

(1)

Conventions Used in This book

(2)

Part I: Getting Started

1 Things to Know About Your Command Line

(10)

Everything Is a File

(1)

Maximum Filename Lengths

(1)

Names Are Case-Sensitive

(1)

Special Characters to Avoid in Names

(2)

Wildcards and What They Mean

(3)

Conclusion

(2)

2 The Basics

(52)

List Files and Folders

(1)

List the Contents of Other Folders

(1)

List Folder Contents Using Wildcards

(1)

View a List of Files in Subfolders

(1)

View a List of Contents in a Single Column

(1)

View Contents As a Comma-Separated List

(1)

View Hidden Files and Folders

(1)

Visually Display a File's Type

(1)

Display Contents in Color

(2)

List Permissions, Ownership, and More

(5)

Reverse the Order Contents Are Listed

(1)

Sort Contents by File Extension

(1)

Sort Contents by Date and Time

(1)

Sort Contents by Size

(1)

Express File Sizes in Terms of K, M, and G

(1)

Display the Path of Your Current Directory

(1)

Change to a Different Directory

(1)

Change to Your Home Directory

(1)

Change to Your Previous Directory

(1)

Change a File to the Current Time

(1)

Change a File to Any Desired Time

(2)

Create a New, Empty File

(1)

Create a New Directory

(1)

Create a New Directory and Any Necessary Subdirectories

(1)

Find Out What mkdir Is Doing As It Acts

(1)

Copy Files

(2)

Copy Files Using Wildcards

(2)

Copy Files Verbosely

(1)

Stop Yourself from Copying over Important Files

(1)

Copy Directories

(1)

Copy Files As Perfect Backups in Another Directory

(2)

Move and Rename Files

(2)

Rename Files and Folders

(2)

Delete Files

(1)

Remove Several Files At Once with Wildcards

(1)

Remove Files Verbosely

(1)

Stop Yourself from Deleting Key Files

(1)

Delete an Empty Directory

(1)

Remove Files and Directories That Aren't Empty

(1)

Delete Troublesome Files

(2)

Become Another User

(1)

Become Another User, with His Environment Variables

(1)

Become root

(1)

Become root, with Its Environment Variables

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

3 Learning About Commands

(22)

Find Out About Commands with man

(3)

Search for a Command Based on What It Does

(1)

Quickly Find Out What a Command Does Based on Its Name

(1)

Rebuild man's Database of Commands

(1)

Read a Command's Specific Man Page

(2)

Print Man Pages

(2)

Learn About Commands with info

(1)

Navigate Within info

(3)

Locate the Paths for a Command's Executable, Source Files, and Man Pages

(2)

Read Descriptions of Commands

(1)

Find a Command Based on What It Does

(2)

Find Out Which Version of a Command Will Run

(1)

Conclusion

(2)

4 Building Blocks

(16)

Run Several Commands Sequentially

(2)

Run Commands Only If the Previous Ones Succeed

(3)

Run a Command Only If the Previous One Fails

(1)

Plug the Output of a Command into Another Command

(1)

Understand Input/Output Streams

(1)

Use the Output of One Command As Input for Another

(3)

Redirect a Command's Output to a File

100

(1)

Prevent Overwriting Files When Using Redirection

101

(1)

Append a Command's Output to a File

102

(1)

Use a File As Input for a Command

103

(1)

Conclusion

104

(1)

Part II: Working with Files

5 Viewing Files

105

(18)

View Files on stdout

105

(2)

Concatenate Files to stdout

107

(1)

Concatenate Files to Another File

108

(1)

Concatenate Files and Number the Lines

109

(1)

View Text Files a Screen at a Time

110

(2)

Search Within Your Pager

112

(1)

Edit Files Viewed with a Pager

113

(1)

View the First 10 Lines of a File

113

(1)

View the First 10 Lines of Several Files

114

(1)

View the First Several Lines of a File or Files

115

(1)

View the First Several Bytes, Kilobytes, or Megabytes of a File

116

(1)

View the Last 10 Lines of a File

117

(1)

View the Last 10 Lines of Several Files

118

(1)

View the Last Several Lines of a File or Files

119

(1)

View the Constantly Updated Last Lines of a File or Files

120

(1)

Conclusion

121

(2)

6 Printing and Managing Print Jobs

123

(12)

List All Available Printers

124

(1)

Determine Your Default Printer

124

(1)

Find Out How Your Printers Are Connected

125

(2)

Get All the Information About Your Printers at Once

127

(1)

Print Files to the Default Printer

128

(1)

Print Files to Any Printer

129

(1)

Print More Than One Copy of a File

130

(1)

List Print Jobs

130

(2)

List Print Jobs by Printer

132

(1)

Cancel the Current Print Job Sent to the Default Printer

132

(1)

Cancel a Print Job Sent to Any Printer

133

(1)

Cancel All Print Jobs

134

(1)

Conclusion

134

(1)

7 Ownerships and Permissions

135

(30)

Change the Group Owning Files and Directories

136

(1)

Recursively Change the Group Owning a Directory

137

(2)

Keep Track of Changes Made to a File's Group with chgrp

139

(2)

Change the Owner of Files and Directories

141

(1)

Change the Owner and Group of Files and Directories

142

(1)

Understand the Basics of Permissions

143

(3)

Change Permissions on Files and Directories Using Alphabetic Notation

146

(2)

Change Permissions on Files and Directories Using Numeric Permissions

148

(4)

Change Permissions Recursively

152

(2)

Set and Then Clear suid

154

(3)

Set and Then Clear sgid

157

(3)

Set and Then Clear the Sticky Bit

160

(3)

Conclusion

163

(2)

8 Archiving and Compression

165

(28)

Archive and Compress Files Using zip

167

(2)

Get the Best Compression Possible with zip

169

(2)

Password-Protect Compressed Zip Archives

171

(1)

Unzip Files

172

(1)

List Files That Will Be Unzipped

173

(1)

Test Files That Will Be Unzipped

174

(1)

Archive and Compress Files Using gzip

175

(1)

Archive and Compress Files Recursively Using gzip

176

(2)

Get the Best Compression Possible with gzip

178

(1)

Uncompress Files Compressed with gzip

179

(1)

Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with gunzip

180

(1)

Archive and Compress Files Using bzip2

181

(1)

Get the Best Compression Possible with bzip2

182

(1)

Uncompress Files Compressed with bzip2

183

(1)

Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with bunzip

184

(1)

Archive Files with tar

185

(1)

Archive and Compress Files with tar and gzip

186

(3)

Test Files That Will Be Untarred and Uncompressed

189

(1)

Untar and Uncompress Files

190

(1)

Conclusion

191

(2)

Part III: Finding Stuff

9 Finding Stuff: Easy

193

(26)

Search a Database of Filenames

193

(2)

Search a Database of Filenames Without Worrying About Case

195

(2)

Manage Results Received When Searching a Database of Filenames

197

(1)

Update the Database Used by locate

198

(2)

Searching Inside Text Files for Patterns

200

(1)

The Basics of Searching Inside Text Files for Patterns

201

(4)

Search Recursively for Text in Files

205

(2)

Search for Text in Files, Ignoring Case

207

(1)

Search for Whole Words Only in Files

208

(1)

Show Line Numbers Where Words Appear in Files

209

(1)

Search the Output of Other Commands for Specific Words

209

(2)

See Context for Words Appearing in Files

211

(3)

Show Lines Where Words Do Not Appear in Files

214

(1)

List Files Containing Searched-for Words

215

(1)

Search for Words Inside Search Results

216

(1)

Conclusion

217

(2)

10 The find Command

219

(18)

Find Files by Name

219

(2)

Find Files by Ownership

221

(1)

Find Files by Group Ownership

222

(1)

Find Files by File Size

223

(2)

Find Files by File Type

225

(2)

Show Results If the Expressions Are True (AND)

227

(1)

Show Results If Either Expression Is True (OR)

228

(3)

Show Results If the Expression Is Not True (NOT)

231

(1)

Execute a Command on Every Found File

232

(2)

Print Find Results into a File

234

(1)

Conclusion

235

(2)

Part IV: Environment

11 Your Shell

237

(10)

View Your Command-Line History

237

(1)

Run the Last Command Again

238

(1)

Run a Previous Command Using Numbers

239

(1)

Run a Previous Command Using a String

240

(1)

Display All Command Aliases

241

(1)

View a Specific Command Alias

242

(1)

Create a New Temporary Alias

242

(1)

Create a New Permanent Alias

243

(1)

Remove an Alias

244

(1)

Conclusion

245

(2)

12 Monitoring System Resources

247

(22)

View All Currently Running Processes

248

(2)

View a Process Tree

250

(2)

View Processes Owned by a Particular User

252

(1)

End a Running Process

252

(3)

View a Dynamically Updated List of Running Processes

255

(2)

List Open Files

257

(1)

List a User's Open Files

258

(1)

List Users for a Particular File

259

(1)

List Processes for a Particular Program

260

(1)

Display Information About System RAM

261

(2)

Show File System Disk Usage

263

(2)

Report File Space Used by a Directory

265

(1)

Report Just the Total Space Used for a Directory

266

(1)

Conclusion

267

(2)

13 Installing Software

269

(26)

Install Software Packages for RPM-Based Distributions

270

(2)

Remove Software Packages for RPM-Based Distributions

272

(1)

Install Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions

272

(3)

Remove Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions

275

(2)

Upgrade Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions

277

(2)

Find Packages Available for Download for RPM-Based Distributions

279

(1)

Install Software Packages for Debian

280

(1)

Remove Software Packages for Debian

281

(1)

Install Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian

282

(4)

Remove Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian

286

(1)

Upgrade Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian

287

(2)

Find Packages Available for Download for Debian

289

(1)

Clean Up Unneeded Installation Packages for Debian

290

(1)

Troubleshoot Problems with apt

291

(1)

Conclusion

292

(3)

Part V: Networking

14 Connectivity

295

(30)

View the Status of Your Network Interfaces

296

(3)

Verify That a Computer Is Running and Accepting Requests

299

(2)

Trace the Route Packets Take Between Two Hosts

301

(2)

Perform DNS Lookups

303

(1)

Configure a Network Interface

304

(2)

View the Status of Your Wireless Network Interfaces

306

(1)

Configure a Wireless Network Interface

307

(4)

Grab a New Address Using DHCP

311

(2)

Make a Network Connection Active

313

(1)

Bring a Network Connection Down

314

(1)

Display Your IP Routing Table

315

(2)

Change Your IP Routing Table

317

(3)

Troubleshooting Network Problems

320

(3)

Conclusion

323

(2)

15 Working on the Network

325

(30)

Securely Log In to Another Computer

325

(5)

Securely Log In to Another Machine Without a Password

330

(2)

Securely Transfer Files Between Machines

332

(2)

Securely Copy Files Between Hosts

334

(2)

Securely Transfer and Back Up Files

336

(7)

Download Files Non-interactively

343

(6)

Download Websites Non-interactively

349

(2)

Download Sequential Files and Internet Resources

351

(2)

Conclusion

353

(2)

16 Windows Networking

355

(16)

Discover the Workgroup's Master Browsers

356

(4)

Query and Map NetBIOS Names and IP Addresses

360

(1)

List a Machine's Samba Shares

360

(3)

Access Samba Resources with an FTP-Like Client

363

(2)

Mount a Samba Filesystem

365

(5)

Conclusion

370

(1)

Index

371

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