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Linux for Programmers and Users
- By Graham Glass, King Ables
- Published Feb 8, 2006 by Prentice Hall.
- Copyright 2007
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/4"
- Pages: 656
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-185748-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-185748-3
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KEY BENEFITS:Offering full coverage of Linux in one source, this book documents the most commonly needed topics for new and experienced Linux users and programmers - including over 100 utilities and their common options. KEY TOPICS: Provides a good foundation of understanding for the most often-used Linux utilities. Devotes a chapter to helpful installation information for those who must install their own systems. Includes hundreds of command and code examples throughout. Provides approximately 50 diagrams throughout. Features FTP-able files; code used in the book will be made available on a website hosted by the publisher. MARKET: A useful reference for anyone using a Linux platform, including programmers, system administrators, and any user who must understand the operating system outside of a specific application.
Bridges casuel usage to simple programming,
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As title says this book is the one my university linux programming class is using. The book is laid out well and explains a lot of concepts and is easy to read. The book is for someone wanting to program from command line for linux/unix. However I write all the programs in gedit using ubuntu 10.10. The book does a great job explaining the how makefiles work and gives a good overview of bash, korn, and c shell. The only downsides are that the book doesn't give any substantial help with perl. So if you are planning on using perl, you will need supplemental material. It also does not give a lot of help with understanding sed and awk, but this was expected as they are such powerful programs. Also the book could've done better in explaining some command line editors like vim and emacs, but since I use only gedit to write, then it wasn't something that I fretted over. I will say that this book isn't then end all, as it isn't one thousand pages, but its a great start. Especially...
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Table of Contents
What Is Linux? 1
Installing Your Linux System 17
GNU Utilities For Non-Programmers 43
GNU Utilities For Power Users 113
The Linux Shells 175
The Bourne Again Shell 211
The Korn Shell 255
The C Shell 307
Networking and The Internet 349
The Linux Desktop 391
C Programming Tools 417
Systems Programming 451
Linux Internals 555
System Administration 601
Appendix 621
Bibliography 637
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