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Encouraging hands-on practice, Mastering Linux provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to Linux concepts, usage, and programming. Through a set of carefully selected topics and practical examples, the book imparts a sound understanding of operating system concepts and shows how to use Linux effectively. Ready-to-Use Examples Offer Immediate Access to Practical Applications After a primer on the fundamentals, the text covers user interfaces, commands and filters, Bash Shell scripting, the file system, networking and Internet use, and kernel system calls. It presents many examples and complete programs ready to run on your Linux system. Each chapter includes a summary and exercises of varying degrees of difficulty. Web Resource The companion website at http://ml.sofpower.com/ offers a host of ancillary materials. Along with links to numerous resources, it includes appendices on SSH and SFTP, VIM, text editing with Vi, and the emacs editor. The site also provides a complete example code package for download. Master the Linux Operating System Toolbox This book enables you to leverage the capabilities and power of the Linux system more effectively. Going beyond this, it can help you write programs at the shell and C levels—encouraging you to build new custom tools for applications and R&D.

Table of Contents:
A Linux Primer What Is an Operating System? Getting Started: Login and Logout Understanding the Shell Using Files and Directories Protecting Files: Access Control Text Editing Getting Hard/Saved Copies Communicating with Others Browsing the Web Creating and Running Your Own Program Consulting Linux Documentation Rounding up Useful Commands Interactive Use of the Shell Bash Interacting with Bash Command-Line Editing and Command Completion Bash Command Execution Bash Input/Output Redirection Bash Job Control Bash Shell Expansions Bash Built-in Commands Shell Variables Environment of a Program Examples of Bash Usage Default File Permissions Shell Startup and Initialization Shell Special Characters and Quoting Simple Functions For More Information Desktops, Windows, and Applications Desktop Overview: GNOME and KDE GNOME Desktop Components Working with the GNOME Desktop Windows Nautilus: The GNOME File Manager Graphical Applications The GNOME Terminal Saving Energy Accessing Help and Documentation Filters and Regular Expressions Commands and Filters The grep Command Regular Expressions Patterns for grep A Stream Editor: sed Building Pipelines Pattern Processing: awk For More Information Writing Shell Scripts Invoking Shell Scripts A First Shell Script Shell Script Execution Positional Parameters The for Command The if Command Test Expressions and Exit Status The shift Command The case Command The while and until Commands Numerical Expressions The break and continue Commands File Queries Variables Arrays Variable Modifiers The Here Document More on Functions Redefining Bash Built-in Functions Example Bash Scripts Debugging Shell Scripts Error and Interrupt Handling The Perl Alternative For More Information The File System A File Location Road Map File Types More on File Access Control File Status File System Implementation The Filesystem Table File Storage Quotas Creating Special Files Network Filesystem Searching the File Tree: find The locate Command Saving, Compressing, and Distributing Files More File-Related Commands For More Information Networking, Internet, and the Web Networking Protocols The Internet The Domain Name System Networking in Nautilus Networking Commands SSH with X11 Forwarding Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signature Secure Email with Mutt and GnuPG Message Digests The Web Handling Different Content Types Putting Information on the Web What Is HTML? Web Hosting Domain Registration The DNS Dynamic Generation of Web Pages HTTP Briefly A Real HTTP Experience For More Information Web Hosting: Apache, PHP and MySQL What Is a Web Server? URL and URI Request Processing Response and Content Types The Apache Web Server Apache on Linux Apache Run-Time Configuration Access Control under Apache Requiring Passwords How HTTP Basic Authentication Works How HTTP Digest Authentication Works Password Encryption Automatic File Deflation Installing Apache with Package Management Manual Installation of Apache What Is PHP? The PHP Module for Apache Testing PHP PHP Configuration Database Support for the Web MySQL Installing phpMyAdmin Installing MySQL Linux Package Management For More Information C Programming in Linux Command-Line Arguments Linux Command Argument Conventions The GCC Compiler The C Library Creating Libraries and Archives Error Handling in C Programs Error Recovery Debugging with GDB Examining Core Dumps For More Information I/O and Process Control System Calls System-Level I/O I/O Descriptors Reading and Writing I/O Descriptors Operations on Files Operations on Directories Directory Access An Example: ccp Shell-Level Commands from C Programs Process Control The Process Table Process Creation: fork Program Execution: exec Routines Synchronization of Parent and Child Processes Process Termination The User Environment of a Process Interrupts and Signals For More Information Interprocess and Network Communication Opening a Process for I/O IPC with pipe Two-Way Pipe Connections Network Communication Sockets A TCP Echo Client Using Datagram Sockets Socket I/O System Calls TCP-Based Servers Network Library Routines On-Demand Internet Services Daemon Processes I/O Multiplexing TCP Out-of-Band Data For More Information GUI Programming with Ruby/GTK2 Getting Started with Ruby/GTK2 GTK+ Event Handling Basics A Ruby Primer GTK+ Widgets More about Events OOP with Ruby/GTK2 A Tic Tac Toe Game Menu Bar Drag and Drop For More Information Index A Summary and Exercises appear at the end of each chapter. Appendices can be found at http://ml.sofpower.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781439806869
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 439
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1439806861
  • Publisher Date: 22 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 439
  • Weight: 590 gr


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