CentOS - Jun 2007 - Recommendation/pointers please - Need to brush up on CentOS/Linux command line tools

Hi all,

I would very much appreciate any suggestions on any online resources, or 
even a decent book to purchase with the focus of brushing up on Linux 
command line tools. The focus is on troubleshooting type commands, 
adding users from command line
 and so forth.

While I am reasonably comfortable using the command line, I will be the 
first to admit I am slow on some things and have gaps in my knowledge 
especially for those commands I have never needed to use. I tend to use 
Webmin for a lot of things. For an upcoming job transition I need to 
fill in the gaps to be able to do these same things I currently do via 
webmin at the command line.

So any suggestions/pointers, etc would be very much appreciated. I 
wonder if there is a Linux for Dummies book out there (provided it deals 
with the command line vs. a GUI).

Thanks

Dale

It seems a joke, but it isn't:

man man(1)

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Two books I turn to mostly:

UNIX System Administration handbook 3rd edition by Evi Nemeth et al. - a 
good general coverage, which breaks down the differences between how 
Redhat, Solaris, HP-UX, and FreeBSD handle things.

O'reilly Unix in a Nutshell (3rd edition) - a little Solaris-centric, 
but good for reviewing commands in paper form, and a handy little 
resource for when I forget sed and awk syntax.


Dale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would very much appreciate any suggestions on any online resources, 
> or even a decent book to purchase with the focus of brushing up on 
> Linux command line tools. The focus is on troubleshooting type 
> commands, adding users from command line
> and so forth.
>
> While I am reasonably comfortable using the command line, I will be 
> the first to admit I am slow on some things and have gaps in my 
> knowledge especially for those commands I have never needed to use. I 
> tend to use Webmin for a lot of things. For an upcoming job transition 
> I need to fill in the gaps to be able to do these same things I 
> currently do via webmin at the command line.
>
> So any suggestions/pointers, etc would be very much appreciated. I 
> wonder if there is a Linux for Dummies book out there (provided it 
> deals with the command line vs. a GUI).
>
> Thanks
>
> Dale
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Dale spake the following on 6/11/2007 2:51 PM:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would very much appreciate any suggestions on any online resources, or
> even a decent book to purchase with the focus of brushing up on Linux
> command line tools. The focus is on troubleshooting type commands,
> adding users from command line
> and so forth.
> 
> While I am reasonably comfortable using the command line, I will be the
> first to admit I am slow on some things and have gaps in my knowledge
> especially for those commands I have never needed to use. I tend to use
> Webmin for a lot of things. For an upcoming job transition I need to
> fill in the gaps to be able to do these same things I currently do via
> webmin at the command line.
> 
> So any suggestions/pointers, etc would be very much appreciated. I
> wonder if there is a Linux for Dummies book out there (provided it deals
> with the command line vs. a GUI).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dale
http://cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/Linux/fundamentals/index.html


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You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

If you are going to be working on RH-centric systems eg. RH/Centos/FC, I
recommend RedHat's PDF and online manuals found here:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

These manuals mostly describe the use of command line utils, and they
are broken down into categories such as administration, security etc.

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 16:51 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I would very much appreciate any suggestions on any online resources, or 
> even a decent book to purchase with the focus of brushing up on Linux 
> command line tools. The focus is on troubleshooting type commands, 
> adding users from command line
>  and so forth.
<plug>
Still very much work in progress:
http://www.taickim.com/books/unixsystems/html/
</plug>

-- Daniel