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Linux Utilities Cookbook
A Cookbook-style guide packed with examples and illustrations, it offers organized learning through recipes and step-by-step instructions. The book is designed so that you can pick exactly what you need, when you need it.Written for anyone that would like to familiarize themselves with Linux. This book is perfect migrating from Windows to Linux and will save your time and money, learn exactly how to and where to begin working with Linux and troubleshooting in easy steps.
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224 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 2013
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February 27, 2014
The Book covers a wide range of skillsets. It starts with the introduction to people, which never used a Linux system before and ends with an introduction how you can make a custom Kernel. Depending
on your experience with Linux you can skip a few of the early chapters or stick to the first few chapters. But even if you are familiar with
the various Linux systems a quick look at all the "beginner" chapters got me a few easy tricks for my daily work, which I never knew.
The style of the author is very pleasing and it is obvious, that he knows what he is talking about. After the half of the book the complexits
increases and the beginner section ends. The advanced Process and Filesystem utilities get explained and a brief introduciton into the
scripting ability of the best operating System ever and also a short perl script introduction (but if you have no experience with scripting I guess the
Perl part is a bit to vague). The Cron chapter is nice, but due to the nature of the crontab, there is nothing spectacular to explain. The
Kernel Chapter, which is the last one, was the most interesting for me. I use now Linux for several years but but every chapter had at least a
small information or tipp which was usefull. So I can fully recommend this book to anyone, but as a summary:
- If you have no experience you will enjoy the first few chapters and will probably get a bit lost in the last few chapters (don't worry you
will enjoy them after you used Linux for a while)
- intermediate user will enjoy every chapter (maybe not the Desktop chapter ;D )
- experienced user will have the most benefit from the last few chapters
So if you are interested in learning Linux or increase your knowledge, than this book is ideal for you. If compiling a Kernel is your every day
work, then you will be bored and should get something else. A good addition is a book about Zsh, though it is not very spread, Zsh
is the more powerfull shell.
on your experience with Linux you can skip a few of the early chapters or stick to the first few chapters. But even if you are familiar with
the various Linux systems a quick look at all the "beginner" chapters got me a few easy tricks for my daily work, which I never knew.
The style of the author is very pleasing and it is obvious, that he knows what he is talking about. After the half of the book the complexits
increases and the beginner section ends. The advanced Process and Filesystem utilities get explained and a brief introduciton into the
scripting ability of the best operating System ever and also a short perl script introduction (but if you have no experience with scripting I guess the
Perl part is a bit to vague). The Cron chapter is nice, but due to the nature of the crontab, there is nothing spectacular to explain. The
Kernel Chapter, which is the last one, was the most interesting for me. I use now Linux for several years but but every chapter had at least a
small information or tipp which was usefull. So I can fully recommend this book to anyone, but as a summary:
- If you have no experience you will enjoy the first few chapters and will probably get a bit lost in the last few chapters (don't worry you
will enjoy them after you used Linux for a while)
- intermediate user will enjoy every chapter (maybe not the Desktop chapter ;D )
- experienced user will have the most benefit from the last few chapters
So if you are interested in learning Linux or increase your knowledge, than this book is ideal for you. If compiling a Kernel is your every day
work, then you will be bored and should get something else. A good addition is a book about Zsh, though it is not very spread, Zsh
is the more powerfull shell.
March 1, 2015
A disappointing book. A pity, because the title was very promising, instead. The preface literally states this book is intended for somewhat experienced computer users who want to know more about Linux. I find this misleading or, at least, somewhat tricky. Many people would probably interpret the above sentence as if they were holding in their hands something for Linux users that want to get to the next level. That was also my guess. It is, instead, a collection of very basic tips for new Linux users.
There isn't really much to say about Linux Utilities Cookbook. It covers basic things such as copying and removing directories or compressing files. The most advanced topics are probably those teaching the reader how to do the same from one machine to another, through scp.
When I was reading the third chapter, with a rather perplexed face already, I was thinking within myself...
James has over 30 years of experience in the industry. This book... is he keeping all the good tricks for himself?
This says it all.
A final note: I think that the best part of Linux Utilities Cookbook is Appendix A, where the author groups some best practices.
I do not really suggest the title, unless the reader is absolutely new to the penguin.
Suggested book(s):
Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook
As usual, you can find more reviews on my personal blog: books.lostinmalloc.com Feel free to pass by and share your thoughts!
There isn't really much to say about Linux Utilities Cookbook. It covers basic things such as copying and removing directories or compressing files. The most advanced topics are probably those teaching the reader how to do the same from one machine to another, through scp.
When I was reading the third chapter, with a rather perplexed face already, I was thinking within myself...
James has over 30 years of experience in the industry. This book... is he keeping all the good tricks for himself?
This says it all.
A final note: I think that the best part of Linux Utilities Cookbook is Appendix A, where the author groups some best practices.
I do not really suggest the title, unless the reader is absolutely new to the penguin.
Suggested book(s):
Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook
As usual, you can find more reviews on my personal blog: books.lostinmalloc.com Feel free to pass by and share your thoughts!
March 1, 2015
A disappointing book. A pity, because the title was very promising, instead. The preface literally states this book is intended for somewhat experienced computer users who want to know more about Linux. I find this misleading or, at least, somewhat tricky. Many people would probably interpret the above sentence as if they were holding in their hands something for Linux users that want to get to the next level. That was also my guess. It is, instead, a collection of very basic tips for new Linux users.
There isn’t really much to say about Linux Utilities Cookbook. It covers basic things such as copying and removing directories or compressing files. The most advanced topics are probably those teaching the reader how to do the same from one machine to another, through scp.
When I was reading the third chapter, with a rather perplexed face already, I was thinking within myself…
James has over 30 years of experience in the industry. This book… is he keeping all the good tricks for himself?
This says it all.
A final note: I think that the best part of Linux Utilities Cookbook is Appendix A, where the author groups some best practices.
I do not really suggest the title, unless the reader is absolutely new to the penguin.
Suggested book(s):
Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook
As usual, you can find more reviews on my personal blog: books.lostinmalloc.com Feel free to pass by and share your thoughts!
There isn’t really much to say about Linux Utilities Cookbook. It covers basic things such as copying and removing directories or compressing files. The most advanced topics are probably those teaching the reader how to do the same from one machine to another, through scp.
When I was reading the third chapter, with a rather perplexed face already, I was thinking within myself…
James has over 30 years of experience in the industry. This book… is he keeping all the good tricks for himself?
This says it all.
A final note: I think that the best part of Linux Utilities Cookbook is Appendix A, where the author groups some best practices.
I do not really suggest the title, unless the reader is absolutely new to the penguin.
Suggested book(s):
Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook
As usual, you can find more reviews on my personal blog: books.lostinmalloc.com Feel free to pass by and share your thoughts!
August 10, 2016
I have used Linux at home as my primary OS for the last 10 years or so, having tried just about all of the mainstream distributions; I also use it regularly for my job. I would not call this book what I am used to when it comes to the average technical "cookbook". It is more like an basic guide to Linux, for someone who has never used it before. Unfortunately, it feels more like a collection of quickly cobbled together notes, and misses the mark in a number of areas.
The books does not flow well in its coverage, and will leave a beginning Linux user with far more questions than it answers. How you can explore bash and Linux commands without mentioning case sensitivity? An unnecessarily convoluted procedure is given for having a new user set their password, after root has already created the account. There are also a number of typographical errors which should have been caught during proofreading.
If you want to get up and running quickly with Linux, there are better guides to be found.
Note: I received a review copy of this book.
The books does not flow well in its coverage, and will leave a beginning Linux user with far more questions than it answers. How you can explore bash and Linux commands without mentioning case sensitivity? An unnecessarily convoluted procedure is given for having a new user set their password, after root has already created the account. There are also a number of typographical errors which should have been caught during proofreading.
If you want to get up and running quickly with Linux, there are better guides to be found.
Note: I received a review copy of this book.
January 5, 2014
Book has 12 articles, which are from „using terminal“ till „setting kernel“.They are a lot of themes which are covered.
In Apendix you can find staff regarding to user and root – rights setings ,etc…
Every article is written in clear style -> idea is to be practical ,with examples. This book is delegated to people which are interesting about linux from beginners to intermediate. What I found very interesting is the article no4 Networking and Internet. Problematics which is cover is ping,ftp,telnet,ssh everything with examples. Also wget. At last but not least IPv4 and IPv6 problematics. Linux Admins can found interesting infos eg in article which speaking about Cron.
Resume>> This publication can very deeply recomend to everyone who is interesting about Linux,to your technical library.
In Apendix you can find staff regarding to user and root – rights setings ,etc…
Every article is written in clear style -> idea is to be practical ,with examples. This book is delegated to people which are interesting about linux from beginners to intermediate. What I found very interesting is the article no4 Networking and Internet. Problematics which is cover is ping,ftp,telnet,ssh everything with examples. Also wget. At last but not least IPv4 and IPv6 problematics. Linux Admins can found interesting infos eg in article which speaking about Cron.
Resume>> This publication can very deeply recomend to everyone who is interesting about Linux,to your technical library.
July 20, 2016
This a great concise book on some major components of Linux. It is well versed and easy to read with good examples and explanations. The author does a nice job varying the content and was pleasantly surprised to see a chapter on custom kernel building. I enjoyed the scripting examples and learned a few new concepts. A good read for a new or a seasoned user, you may find something useful I know I did.
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