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Ok i have been reading some linux books tryin to get up to par in linux. I have read the No BS guide to linux. its pretty good i feel i have learned alot from it. Anyone have any other suggestions?

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I know you probably aren't using slackware but the slackware guide helped me alot when i was learning linux. the book you read proably covered all of these issues, but you can just breeze through the slack book to see if u missed anything.

http://www.slackbook.org/html/book.html


This page is just a good unix reference page for when u need to look up something.
http://www.digilife.be/quickreferences/QRC/UNIX%20commands%20reference%20card.pdf

msg wrote:Ok i have been reading some linux books tryin to get up to par in linux. I have read the No BS guide to linux. its pretty good i feel i have learned alot from it. Anyone have any other suggestions?

This might help, if you want to learn how to use your shell
enjoy

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/index.php

If you want to heavily use linux you might also want to learn bash or csh scripting. Bit torrent has a wealth of books on all things linux that you may find useful. Just go to isohunt.com and type linux books.

I'm looking more along the lines of using a shell. At work we have to search through massive files of just log lines and grab counts of multile ip's and grab counts of certian errors in a specific time frame. So basically i want to know how to use the awk and grep and commands like that alittle better.

msg wrote:I'm looking more along the lines of using a shell. At work we have to search through massive files of just log lines and grab counts of multile ip's and grab counts of certian errors in a specific time frame. So basically i want to know how to use the awk and grep and commands like that alittle better.

man grep is nice for this. Also, try getting a copy of Linux in a nuttshell (even old versions will do).

msg wrote:Ok i have been reading some linux books tryin to get up to par in linux. I have read the No BS guide to linux. its pretty good i feel i have learned alot from it. Anyone have any other suggestions?

Helped me a lot to just get one of the Orielly pcket reference books and then just playing with it a lot. A lot of the LiveCD distros now have all the common apps in them as far as command line goes so you don't even have to install linux to try it and learn. Everyone seems to like Knoppix a lot but there are some really good Knoppix mods that will have a lot more stuff included. I am not much of a book person but using a book to figure out the syntax and then trying it I learn a lot better.

Hope that helps some
LokNess

I currently have ubuntu installed on an older machine that i have so getting access to a shell isn't so much a problem. I would like to find some files like a big file that i could proabably practice on.

the gentoo installation guides + the wiki =

You learn so much just by installing gentoo, and using it on a day-to-day basis.