Linux phrasebook Includes index

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Linux Phrasebook is sure to become the pocket guide that you keep within reach at all times. This concise, handy reference can be used "in the street," just like a language phrasebook. Skipping the usual tutorial on Linux, the Linux Phrasebook goes straight to practical Linux uses, providing immediate applicable solutions for day-to-day tasks. It includes code phrases that allow Linux users to employ the command line to complete onerous and repetitive tasks, as well as flexible code and commands can be customized to meet the needs of any Linux user. The concise information combined with random accessibility makes the Linux Phrasebook a robust, yet agile, reference guide that no Linux user should be without. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 4 Introduction......Page 20 Audience for This Book......Page 21 Conventions Used in This book......Page 22 Everything Is a File......Page 24 Maximum Filename Lengths......Page 25 Names Are Case-Sensitive......Page 26 Special Characters to Avoid in Names......Page 27 Wildcards and What They Mean......Page 29 Conclusion......Page 32 List Files and Folders......Page 34 List the Contents of Other Folders......Page 35 List Folder Contents Using Wildcards......Page 36 View a List of Files in Subfolders......Page 37 View a List of Contents in a Single Column......Page 38 View Hidden Files and Folders......Page 39 Visually Display a File’s Type......Page 40 Display Contents in Color......Page 41 List Permissions, Ownership, and More......Page 43 Reverse the Order Contents Are Listed......Page 48 Sort Contents by File Extension......Page 49 Sort Contents by Date and Time......Page 50 Express File Sizes in Terms of K, M, and G......Page 51 Display the Path of Your Current Directory......Page 52 Change to Your Home Directory......Page 53 Change to Your Previous Directory......Page 54 Change a File to the Current Time......Page 55 Change a File to Any Desired Time......Page 56 Create a New, Empty File......Page 58 Create a New Directory......Page 59 Create a New Directory and Any Necessary Subdirectories......Page 60 Copy Files......Page 61 Copy Files Using Wildcards......Page 63 Copy Files Verbosely......Page 65 Stop Yourself from Copying over Important Files......Page 66 Copy Directories......Page 67 Copy Files As Perfect Backups in Another Directory......Page 68 Move and Rename Files......Page 70 Rename Files and Folders......Page 72 Delete Files......Page 74 Remove Several Files At Once with Wildcards......Page 75 Stop Yourself from Deleting Key Files......Page 76 Delete an Empty Directory......Page 77 Remove Files and Directories That Aren’t Empty......Page 78 Delete Troublesome Files......Page 79 Become Another User......Page 81 Become Another User, with His Environment Variables......Page 82 Become root......Page 83 Become root, with Its Environment Variables......Page 84 Conclusion......Page 85 3 Learning About Commands......Page 86 Find Out About Commands with man......Page 87 Search for a Command Based on What It Does......Page 90 Rebuild man’s Database of Commands......Page 91 Read a Command’s Specific Man Page......Page 92 Print Man Pages......Page 94 Learn About Commands with info......Page 96 Navigate Within info......Page 97 Locate the Paths for a Command’s Executable, Source Files, and Man Pages......Page 100 Read Descriptions of Commands......Page 102 Find a Command Based on What It Does......Page 103 Find Out Which Version of a Command Will Run......Page 105 Conclusion......Page 106 Run Several Commands Sequentially......Page 108 Run Commands Only If the Previous Ones Succeed......Page 110 Run a Command Only If the Previous One Fails......Page 113 Plug the Output of a Command into Another Command......Page 114 Understand Input/Output Streams......Page 115 Use the Output of One Command As Input for Another......Page 116 Redirect a Command’s Output to a File......Page 119 Prevent Overwriting Files When Using Redirection......Page 120 Append a Command’s Output to a File......Page 121 Use a File As Input for a Command......Page 122 Conclusion......Page 123 View Files on stdout......Page 124 Concatenate Files to stdout......Page 126 Concatenate Files to Another File......Page 127 Concatenate Files and Number the Lines......Page 128 View Text Files a Screen at a Time......Page 129 Search Within Your Pager......Page 131 View the First 10 Lines of a File......Page 132 View the First 10 Lines of Several Files......Page 133 View the First Several Lines of a File or Files......Page 134 View the First Several Bytes, Kilobytes, or Megabytes of a File......Page 135 View the Last 10 Lines of a File......Page 136 View the Last 10 Lines of Several Files......Page 137 View the Last Several Lines of a File or Files......Page 138 View the Constantly Updated Last Lines of a File or Files......Page 139 Conclusion......Page 140 6 Printing and Managing Print Jobs......Page 142 Determine Your Default Printer......Page 143 Find Out How Your Printers Are Connected......Page 144 Get All the Information About Your Printers at Once......Page 146 Print Files to the Default Printer......Page 147 Print Files to Any Printer......Page 148 List Print Jobs......Page 149 Cancel the Current Print Job Sent to the Default Printer......Page 151 Cancel a Print Job Sent to Any Printer......Page 152 Conclusion......Page 153 7 Ownerships and Permissions......Page 154 Change the Group Owning Files and Directories......Page 155 Recursively Change the Group Owning a Directory......Page 156 Keep Track of Changes Made to a File’s Group with chgrp......Page 158 Change the Owner of Files and Directories......Page 160 Change the Owner and Group of Files and Directories......Page 161 Understand the Basics of Permissions......Page 162 Change Permissions on Files and Directories Using Alphabetic Notation......Page 165 Change Permissions on Files and Directories Using Numeric Permissions......Page 167 Change Permissions Recursively......Page 171 Set and Then Clear suid......Page 173 Set and Then Clear sgid......Page 176 Set and Then Clear the Sticky Bit......Page 179 Conclusion......Page 182 8 Archiving and Compression......Page 184 Archive and Compress Files Using zip......Page 186 Get the Best Compression Possible with zip......Page 188 Password-Protect Compressed Zip Archives......Page 190 Unzip Files......Page 191 List Files That Will Be Unzipped......Page 192 Test Files That Will Be Unzipped......Page 193 Archive and Compress Files Using gzip......Page 194 Archive and Compress Files Recursively Using gzip......Page 195 Get the Best Compression Possible with gzip......Page 197 Uncompress Files Compressed with gzip......Page 198 Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with gunzip......Page 199 Archive and Compress Files Using bzip2......Page 200 Get the Best Compression Possible with bzip2......Page 201 Uncompress Files Compressed with bzip2......Page 202 Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with bunzip......Page 203 Archive Files with tar......Page 204 Archive and Compress Files with tar and gzip......Page 205 Test Files That Will Be Untarred and Uncompressed......Page 208 Untar and Uncompress Files......Page 209 Conclusion......Page 210 Search a Database of Filenames......Page 212 Search a Database of Filenames Without Worrying About Case......Page 214 Manage Results Received When Searching a Database of Filenames......Page 216 Update the Database Used by locate......Page 217 Searching Inside Text Files for Patterns......Page 219 The Basics of Searching Inside Text Files for Patterns......Page 220 Search Recursively for Text in Files......Page 224 Search for Text in Files, Ignoring Case......Page 226 Search for Whole Words Only in Files......Page 227 Search the Output of Other Commands for Specific Words......Page 228 See Context for Words Appearing in Files......Page 230 Show Lines Where Words Do Not Appear in Files......Page 233 List Files Containing Searched-for Words......Page 234 Search for Words Inside Search Results......Page 235 Conclusion......Page 236 Find Files by Name......Page 238 Find Files by Ownership......Page 240 Find Files by Group Ownership......Page 241 Find Files by File Size......Page 242 Find Files by File Type......Page 244 Show Results If the Expressions Are True (AND)......Page 246 Show Results If Either Expression Is True (OR)......Page 247 Show Results If the Expression Is Not True (NOT)......Page 250 Execute a Command on Every Found File......Page 251 Print Find Results into a File......Page 253 Conclusion......Page 254 View Your Command-Line History......Page 256 Run the Last Command Again......Page 257 Run a Previous Command Using Numbers......Page 258 Run a Previous Command Using a String......Page 259 Display All Command Aliases......Page 260 Create a New Temporary Alias......Page 261 Create a New Permanent Alias......Page 262 Remove an Alias......Page 263 Conclusion......Page 264 12 Monitoring System Resources......Page 266 View All Currently Running Processes......Page 267 View a Process Tree......Page 269 End a Running Process......Page 271 View a Dynamically Updated List of Running Processes......Page 274 List Open Files......Page 276 List a User’s Open Files......Page 277 List Users for a Particular File......Page 278 List Processes for a Particular Program......Page 279 Display Information About System RAM......Page 280 Show File System Disk Usage......Page 282 Report File Space Used by a Directory......Page 284 Report Just the Total Space Used for a Directory......Page 285 Conclusion......Page 286 13 Installing Software......Page 288 Install Software Packages for RPM-Based Distributions......Page 289 Install Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions......Page 291 Remove Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions......Page 294 Upgrade Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions......Page 296 Find Packages Available for Download for RPM-Based Distributions......Page 298 Install Software Packages for Debian......Page 299 Remove Software Packages for Debian......Page 300 Install Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian......Page 301 Remove Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian......Page 305 Upgrade Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian......Page 306 Find Packages Available for Download for Debian......Page 308 Clean Up Unneeded Installation Packages for Debian......Page 309 Troubleshoot Problems with apt......Page 310 Conclusion......Page 311 14 Connectivity......Page 314 View the Status of Your Network Interfaces......Page 315 Verify That a Computer Is Running and Accepting Requests......Page 318 Trace the Route Packets Take Between Two Hosts......Page 320 Perform DNS Lookups......Page 322 Configure a Network Interface......Page 323 View the Status of Your Wireless Network Interfaces......Page 325 Configure a Wireless Network Interface......Page 326 Grab a New Address Using DHCP......Page 330 Make a Network Connection Active......Page 332 Bring a Network Connection Down......Page 333 Display Your IP Routing Table......Page 334 Change Your IP Routing Table......Page 336 Troubleshooting Network Problems......Page 339 Conclusion......Page 342 Securely Log In to Another Computer......Page 344 Securely Log In to Another Machine Without a Password......Page 349 Securely Transfer Files Between Machines......Page 351 Securely Copy Files Between Hosts......Page 353 Securely Transfer and Back Up Files......Page 355 Download Files Non-interactively......Page 362 Download Websites Non-interactively......Page 368 Download Sequential Files and Internet Resources......Page 370 Conclusion......Page 372 16 Windows Networking......Page 374 Discover the Workgroup’s Master Browsers......Page 375 List a Machine’s Samba Shares......Page 379 Access Samba Resources with an FTP-Like Client......Page 382 Mount a Samba Filesystem......Page 384 Conclusion......Page 389 A......Page 390 C......Page 391 D......Page 392 F......Page 393 H......Page 394 L......Page 395 N......Page 396 P......Page 397 Q–R......Page 398 S......Page 399 T......Page 400 X–Y–Z......Page 401 Linux Phrasebook is sure to become the pocket guide that you keep within reach at all times. This concise, handy reference can be used "in the street," just like a language phrasebook. Skipping the usual tutorial on Linux, the Linux Phrasebook goes straight to practical Linux uses, providing immediate applicable solutions for day-to-day tasks. It includes code phrases that allow Linux users to employ the command line to complete onerous and repetitive tasks, as well as flexible code and commands can be customized to meet the needs of any Linux user. The concise information combined with random accessibility makes the Linux Phrasebook a robust, yet agile, reference guide that no Linux user should be without. Gives you the code and command phrase you need to work in a Linux operating system and development environment. This title contains more than 100 instantly usable code and command snippets that give you phrases for accomplishing your everyday Linux tasks, from the simple to the complex.