Book Description
Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics is designed to appeal to both new and power users of Linux. The first part of the book features tutorials explaining common utilities found in Linux, walking the reader through a variety of useful tools, such as awk, sed, shells, and emacs. With a wide array of examples, the user can quickly and easily learn and apply utilities included with all the latest Linux distributions.

The second part of Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics is the Lexicon. This section comprises several articles that define and discuss Linux concepts. Arranged alphabetically, these articles provide an in-depth yet easily accessible source of information on specific topics, such as apropos, crontab, emacs, ifconfig, lex, patch, mke2fs, nroff, route, standard error and whereis.

About the Author
Dale Scheetz is a member of the Debian Linux development team. He has been working with computers for over two decades and is a devotee of the Linux Operating System. His knowledge allows the translation of complex issues into plain and simple English.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: The best thorough guide I've seen!, June 12, 1999 By A Customer This book goes over in great detail of how to use Linux. It starts off basic, and works its way up to tackle the complex commands that most people overlook due to the commands limited use or complexity. (ie, EMACS, sed, awk, etc) Since it starts off very basic, and explains how to use the basic system so that even a new computer user could start learning, you wouldn't think it also would be a great reference to the linux guru. I've been using Linux for about 5 years now, and I consider myself a Linux guru, and I DO find it very useful. The way it is organized into two parts (tutorials in one part, the lexicon which provides the lower level references, in another) allows for easy skimming for someone who just needs to look something up, or allow you to go through it and not get bored by reading a dictionary of terms and usage glossary.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers:  › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews