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

• Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible, 3rd Edition
• Linux (Quick Study Computer)
• Linux Bible
• How Linux Works, 2nd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know
• Linux Basics for Hackers: Getting Started with Networking, Scripting, and Security in Kali
• vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference: Support For Every Text Editing Task
• Bash Pocket Reference: Help for Power Users and Sys Admins
• Python Pocket Reference: Python In Your Pocket (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
• The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition: A Complete Introduction
• Git Pocket Guide: A Working Introduction