Command Line Kung Fu: Bash Scripting Tricks, Linux Shell Programming Tips, and Bash One-liners

by Jason Cannon

Do you think you have to lock yourself in a basement reading cryptic man pages for months on end in order to have ninja like command line skills? In reality, if you had someone share their most powerful command line tips, tricks, and patterns you'd save yourself a lot of time and frustration. What if you could look over the shoulder of a good friend that just happened to be a command line guru? What if they not only showed you the commands they were using, but why they were using them and exactly how they worked? And what if that friend took the time to write all of it down so you can refer to it whenever you liked? Well, a friend did just that. Command Line Kung Fu is packed with dozens of tips and over 100 practical real-world examples. You won't find theoretical examples in this book. The examples demonstrate how to solve actual problems and accomplish worthwhile goals. The tactics are easy to find, too. Each chapter covers a specific topic and groups related tips and examples together. For example, if you need help extracting text from a file look in the "Text Processing and Manipulation" chapter. Also, a comprehensive index is included. If you want to find every example where a given command is used -- even if it's not the main subject of the tip -- look in the index. It will list every single place in the book where that command appears. Here is just some of what you will learn by reading Command Line Kung Fu : What you learn in Command Line Kung Fu applies to any Linux distribution including Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, RedHat, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Slackware, and more.

Genres: Computers, Technology, Computer Science, Software, Nonfiction, Programming, Amazon

126 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 16, 2014

Reviews

[Ali Ganjei · Rating 5 out of 5]

نویسنده‌ی این کتاب باید یه کلاس کتاب‌نویسی برای بقیه‌ی نویسنده‌ها و ناشرا برگزار کنه بهشون یاد بده که چطور صاف برید سر اصل مطلب و پرت و پلا نگید و از اول تصمیم بگیرید که کتاب رو دارید برای چه مخاطبی می‌نویسید.
نوعا نویسنده‌های کتاب‌های فنی در معرض این وسوسه هستن که کتاب رو یه جوری بنویسن که به درد همه بخوره واسه همین مثلا می‌بینید کتابی که در باره آپولو هوا کردنه، فصل اولش نجوم برای کودکانه، فصل دومش سعی کرده فیزیک پرتابه رو یه جوری بنویسه که حسابدارها و راننده تاکسی‌ها هم بفهمن خلاصه تا برسه به اصل مطلب کلی پرت و پلا نوشته که به درد هیچ کس نمی‌خوره.
تازگی مثلا یه کتاب دستم گرفتم درباره انسیبل، فصل اول برداشته توضیح داده که انسیبل رو چطور نصب کنیم. نه به همین سادگی‌ّ‌ها! چهار روش برای نصب در ردهت و اوبونتو و از گیت‌هاب و سورس توضیح داده. یکی نیست بهش بگه خوب آخه آدم حسابی کسی که بلد نیست یه پکیج نصب کنه میاد انسیبل یاد بگیره؟
خلاصه این کتاب کونگ فوی خط فرمان خیلی کتاب درست و بجائیه برای کسی که لینوکس بلده و خوب هم بلده و می‌خواد یه چارتا شگرد جدید یاد بگیره.

[Boyan Kehayov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always something to learn

I am using Linux on daily basis and I learned a lot of new commands, that will help me in my work.

[Thomas Highbaugh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its a decent summary of some of the things that you can do with scripts. Still not as comprehensive and rather dryly written but overall good for linux n00bs. Not thorough enough for a complete review.

[John Abbott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tricks of Linux

I thought there might be more to the book. The author obviously knows what he's talking about which is good since I have other books by him, and he does instruction on the topic.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book with really good examples. I learned many things - I knew many of them already, but the ones I didn't know were fascinating.

[Srinivasan Nanduri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful tricks if you are frequently into using shell

[Jason PATEL · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m a fan of great Jason’s work.

Great read and very helpful to keep close to hand.
Thank you Jason - appreciated.

5 star rating in my humble opinion

[Darryl L. Rowe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A dictionary of command lines

Nothing pedagogical here. Will have to return after learning more on my own or via skimming for something that might work.

[Paul Beach · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of a desk reference, this book does present some nifty command line tricks I wasn't familiar with before.

[Eugenia · Rating 5 out of 5]

E' da un bel po' che lavoro con GNU/Linux, e la bash è mia amica. In questo libro ho trovato vari esempi pratici utili per sfruttare al massimo la sua potenza; molti già li conoscevo, ma ce ne sono alcuni che non sapevo nemmeno io :)

[J B · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you work in *NIX environment and like to optimize your work, this is recommended, if not obligatory. Most of this stuff I've learned on the road. Rest of them make me regret I didn't read this booklet sooner.

[tiff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helps for my Raspberry Pi. Still, even though Linux and OSX shell commands are similar, they're not the same. Still looking for an OSX shell book.

[David Harrhy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great head start to learning Linux

Straight forward to the point with examples to drive home understanding
Backs up Udemy material
Good place to start learning

[Faramarz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome...
Very explicit book about bash tips and tricks

[Amcii Cullum · Rating 5 out of 5]

Linux withstands the test of time.