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Conquering the Command Line: Unix and Linux Commands for Developers
Learn to master and conquer the most valuable and useful command line tools for Unix and Linux based systems. In this book you will find not only the most useful command line tools you need to know, but also the most helpful options and flags for those tools. Conquering the Command Line isn’t just a rehash of the MAN page for these tools, but rather a human-readable walk-through of these tools to make you instantly more productive in your daily development life.
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December 28, 2018
Good little book to provide several common usages of some very common command line tools. If you're a seasoned software engineer, you might already know (or at least know how to google) most of the tricks. However, I can see it being very valuable to people that are not used to *nix style command line tools yet. And I do learn a couple of new tricks when I am skimming through it too.
Overall, this book simply gives you a quick overview of several popular tools, so you would need to look for something else if you need a very comprehensive guide. This small book can serve as a quick reference very well, and I've been using it with and so far they work well together.
Overall, this book simply gives you a quick overview of several popular tools, so you would need to look for something else if you need a very comprehensive guide. This small book can serve as a quick reference very well, and I've been using it with and so far they work well together.
November 16, 2017
Quick read. Good enough to get you started on the command line with most of the commands you'll need at first. I liked the fact that just some of the most important flags of those commands are presented, thus, prioritising the importance of those over others not used so often. But didn't like the fact that we're missing commands like touch, chmod, chown, and no mention whatsoever of what sudo is. I would've liked to have a short list of the next commands you'll likely need in case you want to continue the learning path.
August 30, 2017
Great little book by Mark Bates on the basics of command line usage. The author presented the content is a clear and concise way that made it friendly and inviting. I definitely picked up a few new tricks, and I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to brush up on the topic.
October 29, 2014
Decent intro reference to several of the bread-and-butter commands of the Unix/Linux/OS X command line world. It also introduces several of the important operators re: I/O redirection. I was a little disappointed because I was hoping for a little bit more (e.g., differentiating between STDOUT and STDERR) but I would still strongly recommend it to anyone that needs to quickly learn their way around a modern shell.
April 11, 2016
Excellent book for beginners who are learning how to use a Unix or Linux command line. Mark Bates does a great job going over the basic and common commands frequently used by programmers. He also does equally as well demonstrating how these commands, when combined with its flags and/or chained with other commands, can turn into some powerful tools for everyday programmers.
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