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I wrote a book on Linux command line tools and Shell Scripting (beginner to intermediate level) in c/[email protected]

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Is it regex or sed/awk syntax (or both) that gives you trouble?

I had similar reaction and didn't even try to learn them for years - then I caught the stackoverflow craze of answering CLI questions (and learning from others).

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I wrote a book on Linux command line tools and Shell Scripting (beginner to intermediate level) (programming.dev)

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Hello!

I am pleased to announce a new version of my Linux Command Line Computing ebook.

This ebook aims to teach Linux command line tools and Shell Scripting for beginner to intermediate level users. The main focus is towards managing your files and performing text processing tasks. Plenty of examples are provided to make it easier to understand a particular tool and its various features. There are 200+ exercises to help you practice what you've learned and solutions are provided for reference. I hope this ebook would make it easier for you to discover CLI tools, features and learning resources.

Links:

Free PDF/EPUB: https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/cli_computing (till 9-June-2024)
Web version: https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/
Markdown source, exercise solutions, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/cli-computing
Short video about the book: https://youtu.be/vedRFbWwx_c

I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.

Happy learning :)

What are your must-have programs? in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner for optimizing images

auto-editor for removing silent portions from video recordings

How terminal works in c/[email protected]

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Not my blog, just sharing it here. Saw it on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419325)

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How terminal works (kevroletin.github.io)

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Disaster recovery with ZFS and zrepl (chromakode.com)

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I wrote an interactive TUI app that gives a brief tour of the GNU awk command for beginners (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let me know your feedback, especially if you haven't learned awk yet!

Improving shell workflows with fzf in c/[email protected]

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What's the difference between two_percent and skim?

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Improving shell workflows with fzf (seb.jambor.dev)

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How does the Linux Kernel start a Process (iq.thc.org)

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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for? in c/[email protected]

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Check out https://novelwriter.io/

I'm not familiar with such softwares (I use pandoc for technical writing), but might help you..

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Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y' (learnbyexample.github.io)

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Did you know that Vim has an Easy mode? It's the hardest mode for those already familiar with Vim 🙃

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FFmpeg Explorer (ffmpeg.lav.io)

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What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions? in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

EPUB reader

What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not) in c/[email protected]

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Check out https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch (list of free Windows software)

See also https://www.nirsoft.net/ (freeware, not open source)

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Mastering curl: interactive text guide (antonz.org)

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Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises in c/[email protected]

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I have a book for Perl One-Liners as well, which I'm currently revising :)

Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I've written books on regex too, if you are interested in learning ;)

Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks a lot for the feedback on Coreutils book! It's so nice to hear that it helped in your thesis.

Regarding the ebook versions, I use pandoc to convert GitHub style Markdown to PDF/EPUB (wrote a blog post about my process here: https://learnbyexample.github.io/customizing-pandoc/). I had to search through stackexchange threads to customize the few things I could. I don't know how to fix the kind of page breaks you mentioned. But, I'll try to find a solution. Thanks again for the feedback :)

Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises in c/[email protected]

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Hope you find the book useful :)

I'd also suggest these shorter guides to get started:

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Learn GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises (learnbyexample.github.io)

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Hello!

I am pleased to announce a new version of my "CLI text processing with GNU awk" ebook.

Learn the GNU awk command step-by-step from beginner to advanced levels with hundreds of examples and exercises. This book will dive deep into field processing, show examples for filtering features, multiple file processing, how to construct solutions that depend on multiple records, how to compare records and fields between two or more files, how to identify duplicates while maintaining input order and so on. Regular Expressions will also be discussed in detail.

Links:

PDF/EPUB versions: https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/gnu_awk (free till 31-August-2023)
Web version: https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_gnuawk/
Markdown source, example files, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk
Interactive TUI app for exercises: https://github.com/learnbyexample/TUI-apps/blob/main/AwkExercises

I would highly appreciate it if you'd let me know how you felt about this book. It could be anything from a simple thank you, pointing out a typo, mistakes in code snippets, which aspects of the book worked for you (or didn't!) and so on. Reader feedback is essential and especially so for self-published authors.

Happy learning :)

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Containers from Scratch (ericchiang.github.io)

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Linux Command Cheat Sheet in c/[email protected]

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