For courses in Linux. The perfect companion text for Linux study. Linux Essential Reference is a resource for students and professionals using Linux. Clear, concise instructions for such administrative and managerial tasks as implementing frequently used commands, dealing with shell scripting, and using effective security measures are presented in a carefully structured format, making this book an efficient source of answers to questions about working with Linux commands.
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Linux Essential Reference is a resource for system administrators and other professional Linux users. Clear, concise instructions for such administrative and managerial tasks as implementing frequently used commands, dealing with shell scripting, and utilizing effective security measures are presented in a carefully structured format, making this book an efficient source of answers to questions about working with Linux commands. Aware of the need in time-sensitive environments for quick access to accurate information, author Ed Petron has organized the contents of this book to make it fast and easy to use. And he has filled it with information not available in any other single volume-from programming to network configuration, user management to file management, text-processing utilities to kernel modules. Linux Essential Reference is the professional's guide to Linux expertise.
About the Author
Ed Petron is an independent computer consultant with more than a decade's experience as a programmer and system administrator working with mainframe and UNIX systems. He began using and studying Linux in 1995 with version 2.0.1 of the Slackware distribution. He now uses and contributes to the Debian distribution and has written several articles for Linux Journal. Petron holds a Bachelor of Music in keyboard performance (piano, harpsichord, and organ) from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Chapman University. He is currently working on a Master of Science in Engineering with a concentration in computer science at California National University.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worthy of a place in my "essential bookspace",
By Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Linux Essential Reference (Essential Reference Series) (Paperback)
As bruising as it may be to the ego, IT workers are often only as good as the quality of their references. When trying to win the battle with the nymphs of computing chaos, I often have a clear understanding of what I want to do, but only a better than vague idea of how it can be done. The proper syntax of a command is better kept in short-term memory if you move from system to system, otherwise you will exceed your memory capacity and be the victim of a random memory purge. In the area of Linux, this is the reference I keep on my desk shelf, that very special 38 inches of space reserved only for those books that I use several times a day. Thin enough to be worthy, it is thorough enough to contain the answer over 95 percent of the time. Being an essential reference, it is not a complete description, for that you must look elsewhere. It is made for the experienced user who will immediately recognize the answer to the problem when seen in the book. Even when I was in my most clueless frame of mind, it took only a few glances at some of the index mechanisms before I tracked down the answer. As the computing horizon continues to stretch before us, we are forced to keep more of our ready knowledge at arms length rather than behind our eyeballs. I use this reference for Linux and have yet to be disappointed when searching for a critical point of information.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Same as man/info pages?,
By Troy Vitullo (Greeley, CO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Linux Essential Reference (Essential Reference Series) (Paperback)
Every reference to a command appears to be a direct quote from Linux man pages or the info pages. If those were clear enough I wouldn't need a reference! The good thing about this book is that it does organize commands based loosely on what they do.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
comparison with Linux in a Nutshell,
This review is from: Linux Essential Reference (Essential Reference Series) (Paperback)
Linux Essential Reference (LER) lays out the options and provides better descriptions than Linux in a Nutshell (LN) for commands. However, for those who want to do more advanced shell programming they may find LN better. The same goes for the programmer, where LN's coverage of RCS and CVS and other things partaining to the Linux programmer, probably make it worth selecting LN over LER. In general, I would look at the table of contents for both, see which one covers the topics you are most interested in. They are both great books, but in some cases LN is the better choice.
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