Beginning the Linux Command Line [Paperback]

This is Linux for those of us who don't mind typing. All Linux users and administrators tend to like the flexibility and speed of Linux administration from the command line in bytesized chunks, instead of fairly standard graphical user interfaces. Beginning the Linux Command Line follows a taskoriented approach and is distribution-agnostic.

• Work with files and directories.
• Administer users and security.
• Understand how Linux is organized.

Linux users and administrators tend to like the flexibility and speed of Linux administration from the command line in byte-sized chunks, instead of fairly standard GUIs. This book follows a task-oriented approach and is distribution agnostic.

This book is for anyone who wants to master Linux from the command line. When writing it, I had in mind system administrators, software developers, and enthusiastic users who want to get things going from the Linux command line. For beginning users, this may be a daunting task, as Linux commands often have many options documented only in pages that are not that easy to understand. This book is distribution agnostic. That is, while writing it, Ive checked all items against Ubuntu, Red Hat, and SUSE. Since most distributions are quite similar to one of these three, this book should help you with other distributions as well. There is only one item in the book that is not distribution agnostic: the Appendix, which explains how to install OpenSUSE. Ive chosen to cover installation of just one distribution, because if you dont have any Linux installed yet, you probably dont care what you install. If you do care what distribution to work with, you probably have it installed already.A table of contents is not available for this title.Sander van Vugt is an independent trainer and consultant, living in the Netherlands and working throughout the European Unionls,