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Learning the shell. Why do you need to learn the command line anyway? Well, let me tell you a story. Many years ago we had a problem where I worked. There was a shared drive on one of our file servers that kept getting full. I won't mention that this legacy operating system did not support user quotas; that's another story. But the server kept getting full and it stopped people from working. du -s * | sort -nr > $HOME/user_space_report.txt Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are helpful for many tasks, but they are not good for all tasks. I once heard an author say that when you are a child you use a computer by looking at the pictures.

Computer Borders Linux PC+ Man Pages The Linux man-pages project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user programs. It provides manual pages in the following sections: 2: System calls, documenting the system calls provided by the Linux kernel.3: Library functions, documenting the functions provided by the standard C library (with particular focus on glibc, the GNU C library).4: Devices, which documents details of various devices, most of which reside in /dev.5: Files, which describes various file formats, and includes proc(5), which documents the /proc file system.7: Overviews, conventions, and miscellaneous. intro(1)--Introduction to user commands ldd(1)--print shared library dependencies time(1)--time a simple command or give resource usage accept(2)--accept a connection on a socket accept4(2)--accept a connection on a socket access(2)--check real user's permissions for a file acct(2)--switch process accounting on or off adjtimex(2)--tune kernel clock afs_syscall(2)--unimplemented system calls

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Linux man-pages home The Linux man-pages project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs. With respect to the C library, the primary focus is the GNU C library (glibc), although, where known, documentation of variations in other C libraries available for Linux is also included. The project provides manual pages in the following sections: Download | CGit | Online man pages | Changelog Contributing | Reporting bugs | Submitting patches | Missing pages Mailing list | Project blog | Project maintenance | Translation projects Code of conduct Apache Web server - Complete Guide Updated: February 1, 2011 This article includes a free PDF guide available for download! The Web server - Apache - Complete Guide was one of the many topics covered in a series of books that I started writing on Linux, the goal of which was to help any enthusiastic Windows user or a Linux newbie become a powerful, confident Linux professional. This series of book will probably never be completed, as I'm working on other, more exciting projects, but I'm still convinced you will thoroughly enjoy this document, for it has been written with care and attention to tiniest details. The only thing that you will miss is the fact that links to other Parts, covering other material, are not available in this standalone release. Lastly, let's get one thing straight: You will not become Apache gurus by reading this document. Copyright This document is available under following conditions: It is free for personal and education purposes. Disclaimer Download Apache Web server (3.28MB) Thanks

Ultimate Edition All about pipes, by The Linux Information Project Redirection is the transferring of standard output to some other destination, such as another program, a file or a printer, instead of the display monitor (which is its default destination). Standard output, sometimes abbreviated stdout, is the destination of the output from command line (i.e., all-text mode) programs in Unix-like operating systems. Pipes are used to create what can be visualized as a pipeline of commands, which is a temporary direct connection between two or more simple programs. This connection makes possible the performance of some highly specialized task that none of the constituent programs could perform by themselves. A command is merely an instruction provided by a user telling a computer to do something, such as launch a program. The command line programs that do the further processing are referred to as filters. Pipes were first suggested by M. This chain can continue for any number of commands or programs. dmesg | less dmesg > tempfile1 tempfile1 > less or

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