Preface;
Organization of This Book;
Other Resources;
Using Code Examples;
Conventions;
How to Contact Us;
Safari® Books Online;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Introduction;
1.1 The Excitement of Linux;
1.2 Distribution and Support;
1.3 Commands on Linux;
1.4 What This Book Offers;
1.5 Sources and Licenses;
1.6 Beginner's Guide;
Chapter 2: System and Network Administration Overview;
2.1 Common Commands;
2.2 Overview of Networking;
2.3 Overview of TCP/IP;
2.4 Overview of Firewalls and Masquerading;
2.5 Overview of NFS;
2.6 Overview of NIS;
2.7 Administering NIS;
2.8 RPC and XDR;
Chapter 3: Linux Commands;
3.1 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;
Chapter 4: Boot Methods;
4.1 The Boot Process;
4.2 LILO: The Linux Loader;
4.3 GRUB: The Grand Unified Bootloader;
4.4 GRUB Commands;
4.5 Dual-Booting Linux and Windows 2000/XP/Vista;
4.6 Boot-Time Kernel Options;
4.7 initrd: Using a RAM Disk;
Chapter 5: Package Management;
5.1 Yum: Yellowdog Updater Modified;
5.2 The Red Hat Package Manager;
5.3 The Debian Package Manager;
Chapter 6: The Bash Shell;
6.1 Overview of Features;
6.2 Invoking the Shell;
6.3 Syntax;
6.4 Functions;
6.5 Variables;
6.6 Arithmetic Expressions;
6.7 Command History;
6.8 Job Control;
6.9 Command Execution;
6.10 Restricted Shells;
6.11 Built-in Commands;
Chapter 7: Pattern Matching;
7.1 Filenames Versus Patterns;
7.2 Metacharacters;
7.3 Metacharacters, Listed by Program;
7.4 Examples of Searching;
Chapter 8: The Emacs Editor;
8.1 Conceptual Overview;
8.2 Command-Line Syntax;
8.3 Summary of Commands by Group;
8.4 Summary of Commands by Key;
8.5 Summary of Commands by Name;
Chapter 9: The vi, ex, and vim Editors;
9.1 Conceptual Overview;
9.2 Command-Line Syntax;
9.3 Review of vi Operations;
9.4 vi Commands;
9.5 vi Configuration;
9.6 ex Basics;
9.7 Alphabetical Summary of ex Commands;
Chapter 10: The sed Editor;
10.1 Conceptual Overview;
10.2 Command-Line Syntax;
10.3 Syntax of sed Commands;
10.4 Group Summary of sed Commands;
10.5 Alphabetical Summary of sed Commands;
Chapter 11: The gawk Programming Language;
11.1 Conceptual Overview;
11.2 Command-Line Syntax;
11.3 Patterns and Procedures;
11.4 Built-in Variables;
11.5 Operators;
11.6 Variable and Array Assignment;
11.7 User-Defined Functions;
11.8 gawk-Specific Features;
11.9 Implementation Limits;
11.10 Group Listing of awk Functions and Commands;
11.11 Alphabetical Summary of awk Functions and Commands;
11.12 ;
Chapter 12: Source Code Management: An Overview;
12.1 Introduction and Terminology;
12.2 Usage Models;
12.3 Source Code Management Systems;
12.4 Other Source Code Management Systems;
Chapter 13: The Subversion Version Control System;
13.1 Conceptual Overview;
13.2 The Subversion Command Line Client: svn;
13.3 Repository Administration: svnadmin;
13.4 Examining the Repository: svnlook;
13.5 Providing Remote Access: svnserve;
Chapter 14: The Git Version Control System;
14.1 Conceptual Overview;
14.2 Using Git: A Quick Tour;
14.3 The Git Command Line Client: git;
Chapter 15: Virtualization Command-Line Tools;
15.1 Conceptual Overview;
15.2 Basic Virtualization Operations;
15.3 Xen;
15.4 KVM;
15.5 libvirt and Red Hat Virtual Machine Manager;
15.6 libvirt and Virtual Machine Manager Commands;
15.7 VMware ESX 3.5;
15.8 VMware Networking;
Colophon;