A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
by Mark G. Sobell · first published 2012
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Linux is now the world's dominant Internet server platform: from Google to Amazon, it's at the heart of the world's most sophisticated technical infrastructures. As a result, more technical professionals need to be proficient with Linux than ever before. It's not enough for them to navigate a graphical user interface: real power comes only from the command line and Linux's massive collection of command line utilities. For years, Mark G. Sobell's A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming has been the gold standard reference to the Linux command line and utilities. Comp
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If you're looking for good books, I can vouch for 'A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming' which has very through coverage and end of chapter exercises. For PowerShell, I'm currently reading the the free PowerShell Notes for Professionals ( https://books.goalkicker.com/PowerShellBook/ ) and…
on “What you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands” only” ↗I strongly recommend "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming". It's a great overview of many things linux & command line. Very approachable for beginners and more than good enough to make them dangerous.
on “Ask HN: How can a intermediate-beginner learn Unix/Linux and programming?” ↗From that website: "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming -- 3rd Edition - you can download the 2nd edition as a pdf but it's missing the new chapters in the 3rd edition on Mysql and Python."
on “A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (2010) [pdf]” ↗