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First Sobell taught people how to use Linux . . . now he teaches you the power of Linux. A musthave book for anyone who wants to take Linux to the next level.Jon maddog Hall, Executive Director, Linux InternationalNew Chapters on Python and MySQLCovers Perl, too! Learn from hundreds of realistic, highquality examples, and become a true Linux commandline guru! NEW! Covers busybox, Midnight Commander, screen, and sshfs/curlftpf Covers the Mac OS X command line and its unique tools 295page reference covers 98 utilities, including Mac OS X commands!For use with all popular versions of Linux, including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Debian, Mageia, Mint, Arch, CentOS, and Mac OS X, too!The Most Useful Tutorial and Reference, with Hundreds of HighQuality Examples for Every Popular Linux DistributionLinux is todays dominant Internet server platform. System administrators and Web developers need deep Linux fluency, including expert knowledge of shells and the command line. This is the only guide with everything you need to achieve that level of Linux mastery. Renowned Linux expert Mark Sobell has brought together comprehensive, insightful guidance on the tools sysadmins, developers, and power users need most, and has created an outstanding daytoday reference.This title is 100 percent distribution and release agnostic. Packed with hundreds of highquality, realistic examples, it presents Linux from the ground up: the clearest explanations and most useful information about everything from filesystems to shells, editors to utilities, and programming tools to regular expressions.Use a Mac? Youll find coverage of the Mac OS X command line, including OS Xonly tools and utilities other Linux/UNIX titles ignore. Sobell presents a new MySQL chapter. Theres even an expert introduction to Pythontodays most valuable tool for automating complex, timeconsuming administration tasks.A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Third Edition, is the only guide to deliver A MySQL chapter to get you started with this ubiquitous relational database management system (RDBMS) A masterful introduction to Python for system administrators and power users New coverage of the busybox single binary collection of utilities, the screen terminal session manager/multiplexer, and the mc (Midnight Commander) textual file manager, plus a new chapter on using ssh for secure communication Indepth coverage of the bash and tcsh shells, including a complete discussion of environment, inheritance, and process locality, plus coverage of basic and advanced shell programming Practical explanations of 98 core utilities, from aspell to xargs, including printf and sshfs/curlftpfs, PLUS Mac OS Xspecific utilities from ditto to SetFile Expert guidance on automating remote backups using rsync Dozens of system security tips, including stepbystep walkthroughs of implementing secure communications using ssh and scp Tips and tricks for customizing the shell, including step values, sequence expressions, the eval builtin, and implicit commandline continuation Highproductivity editing techniques using vim and emacs A comprehensive, 295page command reference section covering 98 utilities, including find, grep, sort, and tar Instructions for updating systems using aptget and yum And much more, including coverage of BitTorrent, gawk, sed, find, sort, bzip2, and regular expressions