BOOK REVIEW
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Title: Linux Pocket Guide
Authors: Daniel J. Barrett
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-596-00628-0
Year: 2004
# pages: 191

This little book provides a quick reference to the most commonly used Linux commands.
Although it is tailed to Fedora Linux, most of the topics apply to any Linux system.

The organization is by operation types, not alphabetically, which is most welcome. To
supplement this choice, the index is reasonably detailed too. Just to give an idea,
some of the organizational topics are: basic file operations, directory operations,
disks and filesystems, controlling processes, working with user accounts, scheduling
jobs, and so on.

For each such topics, there appears a command list and very brief descriptions of the
commands, which in turn is followed by detailed command descriptions themselves.
Command descriptions are concise, useful, and peppered by plenty of examples. At the
end of the book, there is a short and sweet chapter on shell scripting.

In essense, this book will make you a productive user of Linux in no time. I would
highly recommend it. The only suggestion for improvement would be to add may be 25
or 50 pages worth of carefully chosen material.