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Mastering Linux 1st Edition
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Encouraging hands-on practice, Mastering Linux provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to Linux concepts, usage, and programming. Through a set of carefully selected topics and practical examples, the book imparts a sound understanding of operating system concepts and shows how to use Linux effectively.
Ready-to-Use Examples Offer Immediate Access to Practical Applications
After a primer on the fundamentals, the text covers user interfaces, commands and filters, Bash Shell scripting, the file system, networking and Internet use, and kernel system calls. It presents many examples and complete programs ready to run on your Linux system. Each chapter includes a summary and exercises of varying degrees of difficulty.
Web Resource
The companion website at http://ml.sofpower.com/ offers a host of ancillary materials. Along with links to numerous resources, it includes appendices on SSH and SFTP, VIM, text editing with Vi, and the emacs editor. The site also provides a complete example code package for download.
Master the Linux Operating System Toolbox
This book enables you to leverage the capabilities and power of the Linux system more effectively. Going beyond this, it can help you write programs at the shell and C levels―encouraging you to build new custom tools for applications and R&D.
- ISBN-101439806861
- ISBN-13978-1439806869
- Edition1st
- PublisherChapman and Hall/CRC
- Publication dateSeptember 24, 2010
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.75 x 1 x 9 inches
- Print length439 pages
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This outstanding book … gives the reader robust concepts and implementable knowledge of this environment. Graphical user interface (GUI)-based users and developers do not get short shrift, despite the command-line interface’s (CLI) full-power treatment. … Every programmer should read the introduction’s Unix/Linux philosophy section. … This authoritative and exceptionally well-constructed book has my highest recommendation. It will repay careful and recursive study.
―Computing Reviews, August 2011
Designed as a primer for the popular Linux family of operating systems, this volume walks the reader quickly but clearly through basic operations and on into more advanced core concepts necessary for a deeper understanding of this open source software environment. Appropriate as a textbook for programmers or intermediate computer science students with a solid working knowledge of computer operating systems, the work provides some step-by-step instructions but focuses more on delivering conceptual understanding of the meaning and usage of commands and procedures for common Linux computing tasks. Each chapter in this volume provides illustrations, code examples, a concept summary and a collection of study exercises. Access to a companion website containing appendices and sample programs is included.
―SciTech Book News, February 2011
About the Author
Paul S. Wang is a professor of computer science and a director of research in the Institute for Computational Mathematics at Kent State University. In 2001, he received the Ohio Governor’s Award for University Faculty Entrepreneurship. A leading expert in symbolic and algebraic computation (SAC), Dr. Wang has conducted over forty research projects funded by government and industry. His main research interests include polynomial algorithms, parallel and distributed SAC, Internet-accessible mathematical computation, and enabling technologies for web-based mathematics education. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT.
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- Publisher : Chapman and Hall/CRC; 1st edition (September 24, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 439 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1439806861
- ISBN-13 : 978-1439806869
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,739,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #103 in Unix Shell
- #352 in MySQL Guides
- #363 in Linux Programming
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About the author

Paul S. Wang (王 士 弘) is the author of this and several other computer science books. He is professor emeritus of Computer Science, at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.
A Ph.D. and faculty member from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Paul Wang became a Computer Science professor (Kent State University) in 1981. Paul is a leading expert in Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (SAC) and in Web-based Mathematics Education (WME).
He has received over forty research fundings from government and industry, published nine textbooks and many software tools. He received the Ohio Governor's Award for University Faculty Entrepreneurship (2001).
Paul has supervised 14 Ph.D. and over 26 Master-degree students. His main research interests include polynomial algorithms, parallel and distributed SAC, Internet accessible mathematical computation, and enabling technologies for Web-based mathematics education, Web tools for mathematics, New and Journalism on the Web.
My most recent interest is in "Computational Thinking" and I am writing some CT articles in a local
(Kent Ohio) magazine "AroundKent". See my homepage for links to these articles.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2013Well written with plenty of examples. This book serves two purposes it explains the syntax and use of Linux commands, and it acts as a very useful reference to keep at your elbow.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2023You won't 'master" Linux from reading this book. But you will get a pretty solid foundation to build on. My confidence level went way up after working through this book.
The chapter on shell scripting could be a little better organized. The information is accurate, but at times not well presented. But again, I can do a lot more now than I could before.
Some stuff is out of date. I don't know if it gets updated in the second edition. But it doesn't make the book not worth reading.
I recommend this book, but would suggest getting the later edition if you can.
One big problem I had was that I could not access the code base that is supposed to go with the book. The access-code given in the book simply did not work on his website. If the author moved it to a git repo where it could be easily accessed that would really help.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2013This book was exactly what I was looking for. As a new Linux user it covered a lot of the basic commands and more. Makes a great reference book for the future too!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2014This book was required reading for my college course. By buying on Amazon using my prime account, I was able to save time and money.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2017Great intro to linux book.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2010I'm a Windows person and this book helped me much more than any other in learning Linux! Definitely worth the money.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2011I am a faculty member at RIT and teach courses in system administration. I am always on the lookout for texts that go beyond the usual Linux bible type topics to discuss in a very concise fashion the many sides of Linux and its use. I greatly enjoy Prof. Wang's style of writing and the fact that this text goes beyond the regular topics to give students an introduction to Linux as both an operating system and a development platform. The thing that I particularly enjoy is that rather than try to cover every detail of every topic he covers (an impossible task given the changing nature of the technology) this text introduces students to many topics, gets them up and running and then lets them figure things out on their own. As an example of this his chapter on writing shell scripts does not pretend to be the last word on shell scripts (that is for much thicker tomes) but this chapter gives students enough to get started writing shell scripts and points them in the direction of uses for shell scripts and then moves on.
For me, this is the right approach and I intend to use this text in several classes.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2016Excellent quality!!