THE LINUX COMMAND LINE, 2ND EDITION. Copyright © 2019 by William Shotts.

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The Library of Congress issued the following Cataloging-in-Publication Data for the first edition:

Shotts, William E.
 The Linux command line: a complete introduction / William E. Shotts, Jr.
      p. cm.
 Includes index.
 ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-389-7 (pbk.)
 ISBN-10: 1-59327-389-4 (pbk.)
 1.  Linux. 2.  Scripting Languages (Computer science) 3.  Operating systems (Computers) I. Title.
 QA76.76.O63S5556 2011
 005.4'32--dc23
                                                       2011029198

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