"Covers Fedora Linux"--Cover.

"Essential commands"--Cover.

Includes index.

What's Fedora Linux? 2 -- What's a Command? 3 -- Users and Superusers 4 -- Getting Help 7 -- Fedora: A First View 9 -- Role of the Shell 10 -- How to Run a Shell 11 -- Logins, Logouts, and Shutdowns 11 -- Filesystem 13 -- Home Directories 14 -- System Directories 15 -- Operating System Directories 18 -- File Protections 19 -- Shell 20 -- Shell Versus Programs 21 -- Selected bash Features 21 -- Job Control 29 -- Killing a Command in Progress 32 -- Terminating a Shell 33 -- Tailoring Shell Behavior 33 -- Installing Software 33 -- Basic File Operations 37 -- Directory Operations 41 -- File Viewing 43 -- File Creation and Editing 51 -- File Properties 56 -- File Location 65 -- File Text Manipulation 71 -- File Compression and Packaging 82 -- File Comparison 86 -- Disks and Filesystems 91 -- Backups and Remote Storage 95 -- File Printing 101 -- Spelling Operations 102 -- Viewing Processes 104 -- Controlling Processes 108 -- User and Their Environment 110 -- Working with User Accounts 115 -- Becoming the Superuser 118 -- Working with Groups 119 -- Basic Host Information 121 -- Host Location 124 -- Network Connections 128 -- Email 132 -- Web Browsing 136 -- Usenet News 140 -- Instant Messaging 142 -- Screen Output 144 -- Math and Calculations 149 -- Dates and Times 152 -- Scheduling Jobs 155 -- Graphics and Screensavers 160 -- Audio and Video 163 -- Programming with Shell Scripts 166 -- Whitespace and Linebreaks 166 -- Variables 166 -- Input and Output 167 -- Booleans and Return Codes 167 -- Conditionals 170 -- Loops 172 -- Break and Continue 174 -- Creating and Running Shell Scripts 176 -- Command-Line Arguments 177 -- Exiting with a Return Code 178 -- Beyond Shell Scripting 178.