Includes index.;"Covers Fedora Linux"--Cover.;"Essential commands"--Cover.
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What's in This Book?; What's Fedora Linux?; What's a Command?; Users and Superusers; Reading This Book; Getting Help; Fedora: A First View; The Role of the Shell; How to Run a Shell; Logins, Logouts, and Shutdowns; The Filesystem; Home Directories ;System Directories; Operating System Directories; File Protections; The Shell; The Shell Versus Programs; Selected bash Features; Job Control; Killing a Command in Progress; Terminating a Shell; Tailoring Shell Behavior; Installing Software; Basic File Operations; Directory Operations File; Viewing File Creation and Editing; File Properties; File Location; File Text Manipulation; File Compression and Packaging; File Comparison; Disks and Filesystems; Backups and Remote Storage File; Printing; Spelling Operations; Viewing Processes; Controlling Processes; Users and Their Environment; Working with User Accounts; Becoming the Superuser; Working with Groups; Basic Host Information; Host Location; Network Connections; Email; Web Browsing; Usenet News; Instant Messaging; Screen Output; Math and Calculations; Dates and Times; Scheduling Jobs; Graphics and Screensavers; Audio and Video; Programming with Shell Scripts; Whitespace and Linebreaks; Variables; Input and Output; Booleans and Return Codes; Conditionals; Loops; Break and Continue; Creating and Running Shell Scripts; Command-Line Arguments; Exiting with a Return Code; Beyond Shell Scripting; Final Words; Acknowledgments
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Designed to get you up to speed quickly on day-to-day Linux use, this title begins with general concepts like files and directories, the shell, and X windows, and then presents detailed overviews of the most essential commands. The reader will learn each command's purpose, usage, options, location on disk, and the RPM package that installed it.