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Fundamentals of Linux

You're reading from Fundamentals of Linux Explore the essentials of the Linux command line

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789530957

Length 234 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Bash

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (2):

Oliver Pelz

Pelz

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Introduction to Linux FREE CHAPTER

2. The Linux Command Line

3. The Linux Filesystem

4. Working with the Command Line

5. More Advanced Command Lines and Concepts

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Index

Additional programs

In this section, we will show you some other very important Linux commands you don't want to miss. These programs are not included in the CentOS 7 minimal installation, so we first need to install it in order to install them. This section is about learning additional command-line programs. Additional because these tools are not included in the CentOS 7 minimal installation, so let's first install all of these programs using the CentOS 7 package manager, yum. In order to install new software, the root user is needed. So, first log in as root. Before we start, let's install the epel repository, which is an additional third-party repository for software that is not found in the official CentOS 7 sources, but is highly trustable and secure.

First, let's install some tools to make our user life easier. rsync is a file transfer program, pv is the pipe viewer; git is for version control; net-tools contains tools to display network information; bind-utils contain tools to query...

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Authors (2)

Oliver Pelz

Oliver Pelz

Oliver Pelz has more than 10 years of experience as a software developer and system administrator. He graduated with a diploma degree in Bioinformatics and is currently working at the German Cancer Research center in Heidelberg where he authored and co-authored several scientific publications in the field of Bioinformatics. Next to developing web applications and biological databases for his department and scientists all over the world he is administrating a division-wide Linux-based data center and has setup two high-performance CentOS clusters for the analysis of high-troughput microscope and genome sequencing data. He loves writing code, riding his mountainbike in the Black Forest of Germany and is an absolute Linux and open-source enthusiast for many years. He has contributed to several open-source projects in the past and also worked as a reviewer on the book Centos 7 High Performance. He maintains an IT tech blog at www.oliverpelz.de **********************************Acknowledgement************************************** I would like to thank my family and especially my wonderful wife Beatrice and little son Jonah for their patience and understanding for all these long working hours while writing this book. Also I would like to thank the folks at Packt Publishing for all their support and the opportunity to to write this book, it was a great pleasure for me. Last but not least I would like to thank Jonathan Hobson for writing the first edition of this book, without him no second edition of this book would have been possible. I would also like to thank all of the mentors that I've had over the years, especially Tobias Dykerhoff who introduced me to the whole world of Linux a long time ago and infected me with his enthusiasm about open-source and the free software movement. **********************************Dedication*********************************** This work is dedicated to my son Marlin Pelz who was stillborn on 2.10.15 just a few days before his expected date of delivery while writing the last few chapters of this book. Marlin, words can not express how much I miss you!

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Pelz

Pelz

Oliver Pelz has more than 10 years of experience as a software developer and system administrator. He graduated with a diploma degree in Bioinformatics and is currently working at the German Cancer Research center in Heidelberg where he authored and co-authored several scientific publications in the field of Bioinformatics. Next to developing web applications and biological databases for his department and scientists all over the world he is administrating a division-wide Linux-based data center and has setup two high-performance CentOS clusters for the analysis of high-troughput microscope and genome sequencing data. He loves writing code, riding his mountainbike in the Black Forest of Germany and is an absolute Linux and open-source enthusiast for many years. He has contributed to several open-source projects in the past and also worked as a reviewer on the book Centos 7 High Performance. He maintains an IT tech blog at www.oliverpelz.de **********************************Acknowledgement************************************** I would like to thank my family and especially my wonderful wife Beatrice and little son Jonah for their patience and understanding for all these long working hours while writing this book. Also I would like to thank the folks at Packt Publishing for all their support and the opportunity to to write this book, it was a great pleasure for me. Last but not least I would like to thank Jonathan Hobson for writing the first edition of this book, without him no second edition of this book would have been possible. I would also like to thank all of the mentors that I've had over the years, especially Tobias Dykerhoff who introduced me to the whole world of Linux a long time ago and infected me with his enthusiasm about open-source and the free software movement. **********************************Dedication*********************************** This work is dedicated to my son Marlin Pelz who was stillborn on 2.10.15 just a few days before his expected date of delivery while writing the last few chapters of this book. Marlin, words can not express how much I miss you!

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