Conquering the Command Line - Free eBook

http://conqueringthecommandline.com/book

by metacasts • 13 years ago

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markbates4• 13 years ago

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.

allanmacgregor2• 13 years ago

Mark, on the title it says Free ebook however going to the site there is no option for getting the book for free?

markbates4• 13 years ago

That link should take you right to the page to start reading it online. If not there should be a big Read Online button that takes. You to that page. I'll pass the feedback on to Softcover that it's not more obvious.

dragon1st2• 13 years ago

Free preview, you meant?

markbates4• 13 years ago

No, you can read the whole thing online. The link takes you to where you can read the whole book for free.

dragon1st2• 13 years ago

Oh ok, didn't notice that, thanks much!

juanre• 13 years ago

Those of you wanting to learn (or teach) these tools might find useful what I wrote to help my kids learn (sorry for the self-promotion, but I think it's relevant to the topic at hand). I tried to make it learn-by-doing and, most important, to help them figure out how to learn more by themselves. The basic shell is here,

http://juanreyero.com/ways-hackers/terminal.html

The following two chapters, also online in full, are about more Unix tools, and Emacs/Vi.

fourgone• 13 years ago

Thank you! Everyone remember to click Read Online if you want to read for free, and Buy Now if you'd like to download PDF, MOBI, ePub, and HTML. Mark is well worth supporting.

Conquering the Command Line - Free eBook

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