Preface
This book is a labor of love. It’s based on a series of weekly columns I began writing for Linux.com in the fall of 2003. Before I get into the meat of the book, I would like to explain why I say that it is a labor of love. The answer is all about both the book’s subject matter and its intended audience.
Why the CLI?
The CLI, aka the Command-Line Interface, is your window into the soul of Linux. Grok the shell, grasshopper, and the mysteries of the kernel give themselves up like cat-burglars caught in the act by the glare of a SWAT team’s spotlights. There is more to learn here than the syntax and function of commands. At the CLI, you learn how Linux thinks, and why it behaves as it does.
It’s also a boogeyman. It’s been held up as being ...
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