فهرست مطالب

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Dedication
• About Packt
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Your First Keystrokes
• A little bit of history
• Linux today and the future
• Installing a Linux virtual machine
• Terminal versus Shell
• A few simple commands
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 2: Climbing the Tree
• The Linux filesystem
• Navigating through the directory tree
• Parent and current directories
• Moving around quickly
• Hidden Files
• Passing command arguments
• The touch command
• Making directories
• Combining command options
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 3: Meet the Editors
• Graphical editors – gedit and kate
• The nano editor
• The vi editor
• File viewing commands
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 4: Copying, Moving, and Deleting Files
• Copying one file
• Copying multiple files
• Copying one directory
• Copying multiple directories
• Moving one file
• Moving multiple files
• Moving one directory
• Moving multiple directories
• Renaming files
• Hiding files
• Removing files
• Removing directories
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 5: Read Your Manuals!
• The four categories of linux commands
• Determining a command's type
• Finding a command's location
• What does the command do?
• The man page
• Help for shell builtins
• The info page
• The very helpful apropos command
• The /usr/share/doc directory
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 6: Hard versus Soft Links
• File inodes
• Displaying file inode number
• Creating soft links
• Creating hard links
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 7: Who Is Root?
• Accessing the root user
• Setting the root password
• The dash difference
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 8: Controlling the Population
• The /etc/passwd file
• Adding users
• Modifying user attributes
• Defining the skeleton
• Changing the defaults
• Removing users
• The /etc/group file
• Adding groups
• Adding group members
• Primary versus secondary groups
• Removing groups
• File ownership and permissions
• Changing file ownership
• Understanding file permissions
• Changing file permissions
• Directory permissions
• Using octal notation
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 9: Piping and I/O Redirection
• Linux pipes
• Input and output redirection
• Redirecting standard output
• Redirecting standard error
• Redirecting all output to the same file
• Discarding output
• Redirecting standard input
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 10: Analyzing and Manipulating Files
• Spot the difference
• Viewing file size
• Counting characters, words, and lines
• Viewing the file type
• Sorting files
• Showing unique lines
• Searching for patterns
• The stream editor
• Translating characters
• Cutting text
• Text processing with awk
• Wildcard characters
• Regular expressions
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 11: Let's Play Find and Seek
• The locate command
• Updating the file database
• The find command
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 12: You Got a Package
• What is a package?
• The role of a package manager
• Where do packages come from?
• How to download packages
• How to install packages
• How to remove packages
• How to search for packages
• How to show package information
• Listing all packages
• Patching your system
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 13: Kill the Process
• What is a process?
• Parent process versus child process
• Foreground versus background processes
• Sending signals to processes
• Working with process priority
• The /proc directory
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 14: The Power of Sudo
• Examples of privileged commands
• Granting access with sudo
• User and command aliases
• Group privileges
• Listing user privileges
• visudo versus /etc/sudoers
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 15: What's Wrong with the Network?
• Testing network connectivity
• Listing your network interfaces
• Checking your IP address
• Checking your gateway address
• Flying with traceroute
• Breaking your DNS
• Changing your hostname
• Restarting your network interface
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 16: Bash Scripting Is Fun
• Creating simple scripts
• The PATH variable
• Reading user input
• Passing arguments to scripts
• Using the if condition
• Looping in bash scripts
• Bash script functions
• No browsing for you
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 17: You Need a Cron Job
• Our first cron job
• Run every five minutes
• More cron examples
• Automating system patching
• Running a job once
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 18: Archiving and Compressing Files
• Creating an archive
• Viewing archive contents
• Extracting archive files
• Compressing with gzip
• Compressing with bzip2
• Compressing with xz
• Measuring performance
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 19: Create Your Own Commands
• Your first alias
• One alias for multiple commands
• Listing all aliases
• Creating a permanent alias
• Removing an alias
• Some useful aliases
• Adding safety nets
• Go crazy with aliases
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 20: Everyone Needs Disk Space
• Where are your devices?
• Where is your hard disk?
• Adding disks to your virtual machine
• Creating new disk partitions
• Creating new filesystems
• Mounting filesystems
• Unmounting filesystems
• Permanently mounting filesystems
• Running out of space
• Corrupting and fixing filesystems
• LVM to the rescue
• Knowledge check
• Chapter 21: echo ”Goodbye My Friend”
• Where to go next?
• Keep in touch
• Assessments
• Other Books You May Enjoy
• Index