GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary
Gareth Anderson
Chris Karakas - Conversion from LyX to DocBook SGML, Index generation
| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 1.2 | 15th April 2006 | Revised by: GA |
| Corrected typing errors, generated new, much smaller index (more accurate in my opinion). Updated errors in document for TLDP. | ||
| Revision 1.1 | 28th February 2006 | Revised by: CK |
| Corrected typos, generated new index (9000 index entries!). | ||
| Revision 1.0 | 6th February 2006 | Revised by: GA |
| Major restructuring, now in a docbook book format. Removed large chunks of content and revised other parts (removed chapters and sectioned some areas more). This is likely the final release by the author, I hope that someone finds this guide useful as I do not intend to continue work on this guide. | ||
| Revision 0.7.1 | 25th February 2005 | Revised by: CK |
| Set special characters in math mode, produced PDF and PS with Computer Modern fonts in OT1 encoding and created correct SGML for key combinations. | ||
| Revision 0.7 | 5th December 2004 | Revised by: GA |
| Updated document with new grammatical review. Re-ordered the entire Text section. Removed a fair amount of content. | ||
| Revision v0.6 | 20th April 2004 | Revised by: GA |
| Revision v0.5 | 6th October 2003 | Revised by: GA |
| Fixed a variety of errors as according to the review and made some consistency improvements to the document. | ||
| Revision v0.4 | 15th July 2003 | Revised by: GA |
| Made small improvements to the document as suggested (so far) by the thorough TLDP review, improved consistency of document and made small content additions. | ||
| Revision v0.3 | 26th June 2003 | Revised by: GA |
| Minor errors fixed, updated the appendix with information for finding where a tool is from. Fixed referencing/citation problems and improved further reading and intro sections, added an audio section. | ||
| Revision v0.2 | 20th April 2003 | Revised by: GA |
| This is the initial public release. Added more code-style then before, broke text-section into more subsections. Improved consistency of document and fixed various index entries. | ||
| Revision v0.1 | 27th March 2003 | Revised by: GA |
| This is the initial draft release (the first release to be converted from LyX to DocBook SGML). | ||
This document is an attempt to provide a summary of useful command-line tools available to a GNU/Linux based operating system, the tools listed are designed to benefit the majority of users and have being chosen at the authors discretion. This document is not a comprehensive list of every existent tool available to a GNU/Linux based system, nor does it have in-depth explanations of how things work. It is a summary which can be used to learn about and how to use many of the tools available to a GNU/Linux based operating system.
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Legal
- 2.1. Disclaimer
- 2.2. License
- 3. The Unix Tools Philosophy
- 4. Shell Tips
- 5. Help
- 6. Directing Input/Output
- 6.1. Concept Definitions
- 6.2. Usage
- 6.3. Command Substitution
- 6.4. Performing more than one command
- 7. Working with the file-system
- 8. Finding information about the system
- 9. Controlling the system
- 10. Managing users
- 10.1. Users/Groups
- 11. Text Related Tools
- 11.1. Text Editors
- 11.2. Text Viewing Tools
- 11.3. Text Information Tools
- 11.4. Text manipulation tools
- 11.5. Text Conversion/Filter Tools
- 11.6. Finding Text Within Files
- 12. Mathematical tools
- 13. Network Commands
- 14. Security
- 14.1. Some basic Security Tools
- 14.2. File Permissions
- 15. Archiving Files
- 15.1. tar (tape archiver)
- 15.2. rsync
- 15.3. Compression
- 16. Graphics tools (command line based)
- 17. Working with MS-DOS files
- 18. Scheduling Commands to run in the background
- 19. Miscellaneous
- 20. Mini-Guides
- 20.1. RPM: Redhat Package Management System
- 20.2. Checking the Hard Disk for errors
- 20.3. Duplicating disks
- 20.4. Wildcards
- A. Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
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