Linux Pocket Guide: Essential Commands
If you use Linux in your day to day work, this popular pocket guide is the perfect on the job reference. The third edition features new commands for processing image files and audio files, running and killing programs, reading and modifying the system clipboard, and manipulating PDF files, as well as other commands requested by readers. You’ll also find powerful command line idioms you might not be familiar with, such as process substitution and piping into bash.
Linux Pocket Guide provides an organized learning path to help you gain mastery of the most useful and important commands. Whether you’re a novice who needs to get up to speed on Linux or an experienced user who wants a concise and functional reference, this guide provides quick answers.
Selected topics include:
- The filesystem and shell
- File creation and editing
- Text manipulation and pipelines
- Backups and remote storage
- Viewing and controlling processes
- User account management
- Becoming the superuser
- Network connections
- Audio and video
- Installing software
- Programming with shell scripts
Reviews (193)
Awesome book - helped me land my new job!
This pocket guide helped me get a job! Really! I needed a book to review Linux commands, so I purchased this to read on the plane. Sure, I've been a Unix / Linux Engineer for 20 years and have done coding, but wanted a quick refresh of commands. While flying to the job interview, I quickly read through this guide. (Well, I made it halfway through in 4 hours). The only 2 Linux questions asked on my interview were things I had forgotten over the years but quickly remembered when reading this book - how to use "chattr" and the obscure run-levels. Great book to have for a quick review! More easily read than man pages, just as in-depth, and commands are grouped in a logical manner.
Very handy, comprehensive Linux cheat sheet.
I work in IT primarily with Microsoft systems. However, in todays interconnected computer infrastructure Linux is a reality and sometimes I find myself confronted with a Linux command line. This book is such a help, with remembering the proper syntax or command that is needed. It is just the right size so it really does fit in your pocket, because in a world where computers are everywhere, sometimes it isn't easy, possible, or even practical to 'look the answer up online.' If you like me sometimes need an accurate, concise, and relatively comprehensive Linux reference, this is a lifesaver.
Good Book Good Shipping
This is a great supplement to my learning Linux. I have a solid understanding of much of Linux, but this helps me to remember some of the little details such as command calls. Nice quick reference though. The shipping was great and the book arrived in perfect condition.
Good stuff. Technical but accessible. If your curious about linux CL a must
Clear, concise and straightforward about what you get and what you don’t. What you get is a great reference thst is indispensable if you ever command line around, which you should because it’s clearly more fun then the GUI at the end of the day. I never thought I’d say that but it’s true -- learning the back end has been a rewarding experience. For a guy who in 1984 got the first Mac when I was 12 years old. I’m still obsessed with the idea of Mac paint and how revolutionary it seemed. Now to know what actually happens -- now so many years later - under the hood in even a tiny way, is kind of crazy, and can’t argue . This book is a great pocket guide, with the essential commands, to get you from a to b (or PWD to CD) without knocking out some Sudo function you shouldn’t have messed with anyway.
Very useful for those switching from Windows to Linux
A great "quick reference" for many essential Linux commands, including common tools and utilities. I am slowly but surely switching over from Windows to Linux, and this is a handy guide that I keep right next to the computer. This guide doesn't tell you everything (which would require a set of encyclopedias!), but it is organized and indexed well enough to steer you in the right direction. If you need full information about a command, you can always reference the "man pages" on the computer, but they often provide too much information to browse through quickly - hence this guide.
It IS exactly what it says. A GUIDE to Essential Commands
If you're looking for a Linux "how to" book, this isn't it. What this IS though is a good "must have" book in my opinion for anyone using ANY Linux distro. It WILL help you to navigate through those "how to" lessons or videos and give you a road map of sorts of how to perform many command line processes that are necessary in the Linux environment. Linux IS NOT like Windows. Windows is a pretty strictly GUI (General User Interface) or better known as pictures and recognized sources. Linux did try to become more user-friendly with the Ubuntu distro but didn't quite achieve what it was intended to do. One of the benefits of Linux are there are so many flavors and distros that you're bound to find something that makes it a little more palatable for you. For anyone switching over from Windows it's a big learning curve and it's going to take you a while. I recommend a dedicated machine for Linux or Virtual Box which is free for Windows users. Operating in Virtual Box insures there's no cross contaminating with your Windows OS as often happens if you try the alleged "dual-boot" method. This book will help you to become much more familiar with some of the needed command lines you will use to achieve things similar to what you are used to doing in Windows. At the same time there is a much higher level of control over your Distro/OS in that YOU get to decide what and how you update. There are also many more features in Linux but you need to know how to get to them and what commands to use to download and install them, that's where this book will be a good guide for you. Making folders, specifying or creating directories and undoing changes are all command line processes so that's where this book will come in handy for you. Over time you will begin to have instinctive reaction of how to achieve certain things the same way or better than you currently do in Windows now. Linux is not a replacement for Windows but an enhanced way of doing similar things and more than you can do with Windows. Instead of having to constantly refer to websites for explanations this book will guide you through some of the how's and why's and what to use when.
Good introduction
Just what you need to get started with Linux. Seems reasonably up to date. It does assume that you know your way around your computer and have been exposed to Unix or Linux. Well organized with commands grouped by topic, eg file access, string editing, etc. This makes it a good reference for novices. Standard references are usually organized alphabetically, which is great if you know what you are looking for. Linux commands are often named cryptically, eg awk or tar. Recommend for novices and people trying to refresh their skills after a hiatus, like me.
Invaluable pocket-sized Linux command line reference.
Several times a year, I have to work on Linux systems. This pocket-sized reference is a treasure as I struggle to recall obscure operators. It has a permanent place in my field kit. Jerry
A real must have.
I had the first edition and almost wore it out. 3rd is much more up-to-date. This is the book I grab first to find a quick answer or refresh a brain cell. Always recommend it to friends. Where's my commission check?
Noob to Linux user
This book won't teach you everything, I think it just scratches the surface of what linux can do. But if you just need a quick cheat sheet or want to use linux more, buy it.
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