Mastering Linux. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul S. Wang.
• Other Names: Wang, Paul S
• Contents: A Linux Primer; What Is an Operating System?; Getting Started: Login and Logout; Understanding the Shell; Using Files and Directories; Protecting Files: Access Control; Text Editing; Getting Hard/Saved Copies; Communicating with Others; Browsing the Web; Creating and Running Your Own Program; Consulting Linux Documentation; Rounding up Useful Commands Interactive Use of the Shell ; Bash; Interacting with Bash; Command-Line Editing and Command Completion; Bash Command Execution; Bash Input/Output Redirection; Bash Job Control; Bash Shell Expansions; Bash Built-in Commands; Shell Variables; Environment of a Program; Examples of Bash Usage; Default File Permissions; Shell Startup and Initialization; Shell Special Characters and Quoting; Simple Functions; For More Information Desktops, Windows, and Applications ; Desktop Overview: GNOME and KDE; GNOME Desktop Components; Working with the GNOME Desktop; Windows; Nautilus: The GNOME File Manager; Graphical Applications; The GNOME Terminal; Saving Energy; Accessing Help and Documentation Filters and Regular Expressions; Commands and Filters; The grep Command; Regular Expressions; Patterns for grep; A Stream Editor: sed; Building Pipelines; Pattern Processing: awk; For More Information Writing Shell Scripts ; Invoking Shell Scripts; A First Shell Script; Shell Script Execution; Positional Parameters; The for Command; The if Command; Test Expressions and Exit Status; The shift Command; The case Command; The while and until Commands; Numerical Expressions; The break and continue Commands; File Queries; Variables; Arrays; Variable Modifiers; The Here Document; More on Functions; Redefining Bash Built-in Functions; Example Bash Scripts; Debugging Shell Scripts; Error and Interrupt Handling; The Perl Alternative; For More Information The File System; A File Location Road Map; File Types; More on File Access Control; File Status; File System Implementation; The Filesystem Table; File Storage Quotas; Creating Special Files; Network Filesystem; Searching the File Tree: find; The locate Command; Saving, Compressing, and Distributing Files; More File-Related Commands; For More Information Networking, Internet, and the Web ; Networking Protocols; The Internet; The Domain Name System; Networking in Nautilus; Networking Commands; SSH with X11 Forwarding; Public-Key Cryptography and Digital Signature; Secure Email with Mutt and GnuPG; Message Digests; The Web; Handling Different Content Types; Putting Information on the Web; What Is HTML?; Web Hosting; Domain Registration; The DNS; Dynamic Generation of Web Pages; HTTP Briefly; A Real HTTP Experience; For More Information Web Hosting: Apache, PHP and MySQL ; What Is a Web Server?; URL and URI; Request Processing; Response and Content Types; The Apache Web Server; Apache on Linux; Apache Run-Time Configuration; Access Control under Apache; Requiring Passwords; How HTTP Basic Authentication Works; How HTTP Digest Authentication Works; Password Encryption; Automatic File Deflation; Installing Apache with Package Management; Manual Installation of Apache; What Is PHP?; The PHP Module for Apache; Testing PHP; PHP Configuration; Database Support for the Web; MySQL; Installing phpMyAdmin; Installing MySQL; Linux Package Management; For More Information C Programming in Linux; Command-Line Arguments; Linux Command Argument Conventions; The GCC Compiler; The C Library; Creating Libraries and Archives; Error Handling in C Programs; Error Recovery; Debugging with GDB; Examining Core Dumps; For More Information I/O and Process Control System Calls; System-Level I/O; I/O Descriptors; Reading and Writing I/O Descriptors; Operations on Files; Operations on Directories; Directory Access; An Example: ccp; Shell-Level Commands from C Programs; Process Control; The Process Table; Process Creation: fork; Program Execution: exec Routines; Synchronization of Parent and Child Processes; Process Termination; The User Environment of a Process; Interrupts and Signals; For More Information Interprocess and Network Communication; Opening a Process for I/O; IPC with pipe; Two-Way Pipe Connections; Network Communication; Sockets; A TCP Echo Client; Using Datagram Sockets; Socket I/O System Calls; TCP-Based Servers; Network Library Routines; On-Demand Internet Services; Daemon Processes; I/O Multiplexing; TCP Out-of-Band Data; For More Information GUI Programming with Ruby/GTK2 ; Getting Started with Ruby/GTK2; GTK+ Event Handling Basics; A Ruby Primer; GTK+ Widgets; More about Events; OOP with Ruby/GTK2; A Tic Tac Toe Game; Menu Bar; Drag and Drop; For More Information Index A Summary and Exercises appear at the end of each chapter. Appendices can be found at http://ml.sofpower.com
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 421 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.432; Operating systems (Computers); Operating systems (Computers); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439894750; 1439894752
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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