PCBurn: Book Review: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming | Linux Today

PCBurn: Book Review: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 21, 2005

[Thanks to Chris
Bergeron
for this link.]

“Mark Sobell has set out to create a definitive learning manual
for shell usage on Linux. Covering exactly what the title would
suggest, this ‘Practical Guide’ is a referance for CLI (command
line interface) usage from Vim and Emacs to scripting and the
basics of C programming. Let’s take a look at what’s covered.

“When working with a thousand plus pages of reference material
my most immediate concern is indexing…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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