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Conquering the Command Line - Free eBook

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Learn to master and conquer the most valuable and useful command line tools for Unix and Linux based systems. In this book you will find not only the most useful command line tools you need to know, but also the most helpful options and flags for those tools. Conquering the Command Line isn't just a rehash of the MAN page for these tools, but rather a human-readable walk-through of these tools to make you instantly more productive in your daily development life.

Mark, on the title it says Free ebook however going to the site there is no option for getting the book for free?

That link should take you right to the page to start reading it online. If not there should be a big Read Online button that takes. You to that page. I'll pass the feedback on to Softcover that it's not more obvious.

Yes. Almost didn't see the drop-down for chapter navigation. Thanks.

The table of contents is also clickable.

I would say that reading for free online is different from offering a free eBook as the title indicates. 'Free online HTML book' would seem like a better description to me if that's the case.

That's certainly more descriptive. I always think of those as eBooks though. In my mind I don't really see there being a difference. HTML is one, of many, eBook formats.

There is certainly a difference, with an ebook I can just download it to my tablet, phone or whatever for online reading.

> HTML is one, of many, eBook formats.

While this might be true, seems to me that you are trying to do some shady marketing; to get more traffic.

Personally because of this I won't be buying the book or reading it online.

The main difference for me would be that I'd consider an eBook to be something I can download (epub, mobi, pdf etc...) and read on my Kobo offline. Can't see how I could easily do that with the online HTML version.

As a comparison, I found this on Skimfeed today:

http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/guide-to-kde-the-other-linux-...

Those of you wanting to learn (or teach) these tools might find useful what I wrote to help my kids learn (sorry for the self-promotion, but I think it's relevant to the topic at hand). I tried to make it learn-by-doing and, most important, to help them figure out how to learn more by themselves. The basic shell is here,

http://juanreyero.com/ways-hackers/terminal.html

The following two chapters, also online in full, are about more Unix tools, and Emacs/Vi.

Thank you! Everyone remember to click Read Online if you want to read for free, and Buy Now if you'd like to download PDF, MOBI, ePub, and HTML. Mark is well worth supporting.

Free preview, you meant?

No, you can read the whole thing online. The link takes you to where you can read the whole book for free.

Oh ok, didn't notice that, thanks much!

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