| | Printing and Managing Print Jobs |
| | Ownerships and Permissions |
| | Archiving and Compression |
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| | >>Note: gur: Skott Granneman is an autor, educator, and consultant. As a writer, he focuses on open source software, as shown by his first two books, Don't Click on the Blue, E!: Switching to Firefox and Hacking Knoppix, and his contributions to Ubuntu Hacks. In addition, he is a monthly columnist for SecurityFocus, wiht op/ed pieces that focus on general security topics, and for Linux Magazine, in a column focusing on new and on The Open Sourse Weblog. |
| | View Text Files a Screen at a Time |
| | >>Note: tail file_1 file_2 |
| | >>Note: head file_1 file_2 |
| | View the First Several Bytes, Kilobytes, or Megabytes of a File |
| | View the First Several Lines of a File or Files |
| | View the Last Several Lines of a File or Files |
| | View the Constantly Updated Last Lines of a File or Files |
| | Concatenate Files to stdout |
| | >>Note: cat file_1 file_2 |
| | Concatenate Files to Another File |
| | >>Note: cat file_1 file_2 > file_3 |
| | Concatenate Files and Number the Lines |
| | >>Note: cat -n file_1 file_2 |
| | Edit Files Viewed with a Pager |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Printing and Managing Print Jobs |
| | List All Available Printers |
| | Determine Your Default Printer |
| | Find Out How Your Printers Are Connected |
| | Get All the Information About Your Printers at Once |
| | Print Files to the Default Printer |
| | Print Files to Any Printer |
| | Print More Than One Copy of a File |
| | List Print Jobs by Printer |
| | Cancel the Current Print Job Sent to the Default Printer |
| | Cancel a Print Job Sent to Any Printer |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Ownerships and Permissions |
| | Change the Group Owning Files and Directories |
| | Recursively Change the Group Owning a Directory |
| | Keep Track of Changes Made to a File's Group with chgrp |
| | Change the Owner of Files and Directories |
| | Change the Owner and Group of Files and Directories |
| | Understand the Basics of Permissions |
| | Change Permissions on Files and Directories Using Alphabetic Notation |
| | Change Permissions on Files and Directories Using Numeric Permissions |
| | Change Permissions Recursively |
| | Set and Then Clear the Sticky Bit |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Archiving and Compression |
| | Archive and Compress Files Using zip |
| | Get the Best Compression Possible with zip |
| | Password-Protect Compressed Zip Archives |
| | Archive and Compress Files Using gzip |
| | Archive and Compress Files Recursively Using gzip |
| | Get the Best Compression Possible with gzip |
| | Uncompress Files Compressed with gzip |
| | Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with gunzip |
| | Archive and Compress Files Using bzip2 |
| | Get the Best Compression Possible with bzip2 |
| | Uncompress Files Compressed with bzip2 |
| | Test Files That Will Be Unzipped with bunzip |
| | Archive and Compress Files with tar and gzip |
| | Test Files That Will Be Untarred and Uncompressed |
| | Untar and Uncompress Files |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Special Characters to Avoid in Names |
| | Wildcards and What They Mean |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | View Your Command-Line History |
| | Monitoring System Resources |
| | Install Software Packages for Debian |
| | Install Software Packages for RPM-Based Distributions |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Grab a New Address Using DHCP |
| | Query and Map NetBIOS Names and IP Addresses |
| | Discover the Workgroup's Master Browsers |
| | >>Note: nmblookup -M [Master Browser] |
| | nmblookup -A [IP-address] |
| | Access Samba Resources with an FTP-Like Client |
| | List a Machine's Samba Shares |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Manage Results Received When Searching a Database of Filenames |
| | Search a Database of Filenames |
| | The Basics of Searching Inside Text Files for Patterns |
| | Search Recursively for Text in Files |
| | Search for Text in Files, Ignoring Case |
| | Search for Whole Words Only in Files |
| | Show Line Numbers Where Words Appear in Files |
| | Search the Output of Other Commands for Specific Words |
| | See Context for Words Appearing in Files |
| | Show Lines Where Words Do Not Appear in Files |
| | List Files Containing Searched-for Words |
| | Search for Words Inside Search Results |
| | Update the Database Used by locate |
| | Search a Database of Filenames Without Worrying About Case |
| | Searching Inside Text Files for Patterns |
| | Print Find Results into a File |
| | Execute a Command on Every Found File |
| | Show Results If the Expression Is Not True (NOT) |
| | Show Results If Either Expression Is True (OR) |
| | Show Results If the Expressions Are True (AND) |
| | Find Files by Group Ownership |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | List the Contents of Other Folders |
| | List Folder Contents Using Wildcards |
| | View a List of Files in Subfolders |
| | View a List of Contents in a Single Column |
| | View Contents As a Comma-Separated List |
| | View Hidden Files and Folders |
| | Visually Display a File's Type |
| | Display Contents in Color |
| | List Permissions, Ownership, and More |
| | Reverse the Order Contents are Listed |
| | Sort Contents by File Extension |
| | Sort Contents by Date and Time |
| | Express File Sizes in Terms of K, M, and G |
| | Display the Path of Your Current Directory |
| | Change to a Different Directory |
| | Change to Previous Directory |
| | Change a File to Any Desired Time |
| | Create a New Directory and Any Necessary Subdirectories |
| | Find Out What mkdir Is Doing As It Acts |
| | Copy Files Using Wildcards |
| | Stop Yourself from Copying over Important Files |
| | Copy Files As Perfect Backups in Another Directory |
| | Remove Several Files At Once with Wildcards |
| | Stop Yourself from Deleting Key Files |
| | Delete an Empty Directory |
| | Remove Files and Directories That Aren't Empty |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Search for a Command Based on What It Does |
| | Quickly Find Out What a Command Does Based on Its Name |
| | Find Out About Commands with man |
| | Find a Command Based on What It Does |
| | Rebuild man's Database of Commands |
| | Read a Command's Specific Man Page |
| | Learn About Commands with info |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Run Several Commands Sequentially |
| | Run Commands Only If the Previous... |
| | Plug the Output of a Command into Another Command |
| | Use the Output of One Command As Input for Another |
| | Redirect a Command's Output to a File |
| | Prevent Overwriting Files When Using Redirection |
| | Append a Command's Output to a File |
| | Use a File As Input for a Command |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | View Your Command-Line History |
| | Run the Last Command Again |
| | Run a Previous Command Using Numbers |
| | Run a Previous Command Using a String |
| | Display All Command Aliases |
| | View a Specific Command Alias |
| | Create a New Temporary Alias |
| | Create a New Permanent Alias |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Monitoring System Resources |
| | View All Currently Running Processes |
| | View Processes Owned by a Particular User |
| | View a Dynamically Updated List of Running Processes |
| | List Users for a Particular File |
| | List Processes for a Particular Program |
| | Display Information About System RAM |
| | Show File System Disk Usage |
| | Report File Space Used by a Directory |
| | Report Just the Total Space Used for a Directory |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Install Software Packages for RPM-Based Distributions |
| | Remove Software Packages for RPM-Based Distributions |
| | Install Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions |
| | Remove Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions |
| | Upgrade Software Packages and Dependencies for RPM-Based Distributions |
| | Find Packages Available for Download for RPM-Based Distributions |
| | Install Software Packages for Debian |
| | Remove Software Packages for Debian |
| | Install Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian |
| | Remove Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian |
| | Upgrade Software Packages and Dependencies for Debian |
| | Find Packages Available for Download for Debian |
| | Clean Up Unneeded Installation Packages for Debian |
| | Troubleshoot Problems with apt |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | View the Status of Your Network Interfaces |
| | Verify That a Computer Is Running and Accepting Requests |
| | Trace the Route Packets Take Between Two Hosts |
| | Configure a Network Interface |
| | View the Status of Your Wireless Network Interfaces |
| | Configure a Wireless Network Interface |
| | Grab a New Address Using DHCP |
| | Make a Network Connection Active |
| | Bring a Network Connection Down |
| | Display Your IP Routing Table |
| | Change Your IP Routing Table |
| | Troubleshooting Network Problems |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
| | Securely Transfer and Back Up Files |
| | Securely Copy Files Between Hosts |
| | Securely Transfer Files Between Machines |
| | Securely Log In to Another Computer |
| | Securely Log In to Another Machine Without a Password |
| | Download Files Non-interactively |
| | Download Websites Non-interactively |
| | Download Sequential Files and Internet Resources |
| | Linux: Phrasebook by Scott Granneman |
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