O'Reilly's Pocket Guides have earned a reputation as inexpensive, comprehensive, and compact guides that have the stuff but not the fluff. Every page of Linux Pocket Guide lives up to this billing. It clearly explains how to get up to speed quickly on day-to-day Linux use. Once you're up and running, Linux Pocket Guide provides an easy-to-use reference that you can keep by your keyboard for those times when you want a fast, useful answer, not hours in the man pages. Linux Pocket Guide is organized the way you use Linux: by function, not just alphabetically. It's not the 'bible of Linux; it's a practical and concise guide to the options and commands you need most. It starts with general concepts like files and directories, the shell, and X windows, and then presents detailed overviews of the most essential commands, with clear examples. You'll learn each command's purpose, usage, options, location on disk, and even the RPM package that installed it. The Linux Pocket Guide is tailored to Fedora Linux--the latest spin-off of Red Hat Linux--but most of the information applies to any Linux system. Throw in a host of valuable power user tips and a friendly and accessible style, and you'll quickly find this practical, to-the-point book a small but mighty resource for Linux users.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 42 Ratings

Good for What It is - 2009-06-29
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This book lists commands and what they do. It does not explain Linux, or how to do things, just what various commands are. It's not a bad reference, although you can get more from Linux man.

Highly recommended - 2010-01-19
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This is the book every Linux person should have. Great introductory part for those unfamiliar with the Linux commands and a detailed part describing all the important Linux commands under heaven, all in a very small book you can carry anywhere. In fact you cannot go wrong with technical books from O'Reilly because they only publish the best.

"Quickie" Linix - 2009-11-28
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While this book utilizes Fedora core as a reference it's cross applicable to using shell commands through terminal. It was a great help to me during my Introduction to Unix class and quickly looking up command syntax to complete homework and some troubleshooting with Ubuntu. I would recommend as an important tool to keep handy for reference while using any Linux distro.

Great!!!!! - 2009-05-29
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I received the in great condition and in less time than I thought it would take.

LINUX pocket guide - 2009-05-26
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actually bought this because a co-worker had a copy and he said it was SO handy to have at work--our system uses this program/operating system. info is easily accessed and understood and I was told it's a thorough guide.

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