Linux 101 Hacks 2nd Edition – Table of Contents

Linux 101 Hacks 2nd Edition – Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Powerful CD Command Hacks

• Hack 1. Define CD Base Directory Using CDPATH
• Hack 2. Use CD Alias to Navigate Up the Directory
• Hack 3. Perform mkdir and cd Using a Single Command
• Hack 4. Toggle Between Directories
• Hack 5. Manipulate Directory Stack
• Hack 6. Automatically Correct Mistyped Directory Names

Chapter 2: Essential Linux Commands

• Hack 7. Grep Command
• Hack 8. Regular Expression in Grep
• Hack 9. Find Command
• Hack 10. Suppress Standard Output and Error Message
• Hack 11. Join Command
• Hack 12. Change the Case
• Hack 13. Xargs Command
• Hack 14. Sort Command
• Hack 15. Uniq Command
• Hack 16. Cut Command
• Hack 17. Stat Command
• Hack 18. Diff Command
• Hack 19. Display Total Connect Time of Users
• Hack 20. Execute Commands in the Background
• Hack 21. Sed Basics – Find and Replace Using RegEx
• Hack 22. Awk Introduction – Print Examples
• Hack 23. Vim Editor Navigation Fundamentals
• Hack 24. Chmod Command Examples
• Hack 25. View Multiple Log Files in One Terminal
• Hack 26. Less Command
• Hack 27. Wget Examples

Chapter 3: SSH Commands and Tips

• Hack 28. Debug SSH Client Session
• Hack 29. Toggle SSH Session using SSH Escape Character
• Hack 30. Display SSH Session Statistics
• Hack 31. Change OpenSSH Security Options
• Hack 32. Transfer All PuTTY Sessions

Chapter 4: Date Manipulation

• Hack 33. Set System Date and Time
• Hack 34. Set Hardware Date and Time
• Hack 35. Display Date and Time in a Specific Format
• Hack 36. Display Past Date and Time
• Hack 37. Display Future Date and Time

Chapter 5: PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and PROMPT_COMMAND

• Hack 38. PS1 – Default Interaction Prompt
• Hack 39. PS2 – Continuation Interactive Prompt
• Hack 40. PS3 – Prompt Used by Select Command
• Hack 41. PS4 – Prompt to Prefix Tracing Output
• Hack 42. PROMPT_COMMAND
• Hack 43. Customize Bash Prompt Using PS1
• Hack 44. Colorful Bash Prompt Using PS1

Chapter 6: Archive and Compression

• Hack 45. Zip Command Basics
• Hack 46. Zip Command Advanced Compression
• Hack 47. Password Protection of Zip files
• Hack 48. Tar Command Examples
• Hack 49. Combine gzip, bzip2 with Tar
• Hack 50. BZ is Eazy! Bz* Command Examples
• Hack 51. Cpio Examples

Chapter 7: Command Line History

• Hack 52. Bash Command Line History Examples
• Hack 53. History Related Environment Variables
• Hack 54. History Expansion Examples

Chapter 8: System Administration Tasks

• Hack 55. Partition Using fdisk
• Hack 56. Format a Partition Using mke2fsk
• Hack 57. Mount a Partition
• Hack 58. Fine Tune a Partition Using tune2fs
• Hack 59. Create a Swap File System
• Hack 60. Create a New User
• Hack 61. Create a New Group
• Hack 62. Setup SSH Passwordless Login in OpenSSH
• Hack 63. Use ssh-copy-id Along With ssh-agent
• Hack 64. Crontab Examples
• Hack 65. Safe Reboot Of Linux Using Magic SysRq Key
• Hack 66. Linux Parted Command Examples
• Hack 67. Rsync Command Examples
• Hack 68. Chkconfig Command Examples
• Hack 69. How to Setup Anacron
• Hack 70. IPTables Rules Examples

Chapter 9: Install Packages

• Hack 71. Yum Command Examples
• Hack 72. RPM Command Examples
• Hack 73. apt-* Command Examples
• Hack 74. Install from Source

Chapter 10: LAMP Stack

• Hack 75. Install Apache 2 with SSL
• Hack 76. Install PHP from Source
• Hack 77. Install MySQL
• Hack 78. Install LAMP Stack
• Hack 79. Install XAMPP
• Hack 80. Secure Your Apache Web Server
• Hack 81. Apachectl and Httpd Tips
• Hack 82. Setup Apache Virtual Host Configuration
• Hack 83. Rotate Apache Logs Files

Chapter 11: Bash Scripting

• Hack 84. Execution Sequence of .bash_* file
• Hack 85. Bash FOR Loops Using C Like Syntax
• Hack 86. Debug a Shell Script
• Hack 87. Quoting
• Hack 88. Read Data File Fields Inside a Shell Script

Chapter 12: System Monitoring and Performance

• Hack 89. Free Command
• Hack 90. Top Command
• Hack 91. Df Command
• Hack 92. Du Command
• Hack 93. Lsof Commands
• Hack 94. Vmstat Command
• Hack 95. Netstat Command
• Hack 96. Sysctl Command
• Hack 97. Nice Command
• Hack 98. Renice Command
• Hack 99. Kill Command
• Hack 100. Ps Command
• Hack 101. Sar Command