Ten more command-line concoctions.

A great number of shell features affect how the command name you type is interpreted. Each shell has an assortment of built-in commands; the PATH environment variable specifies the list and order of directories to search; and each alias acts as shorthand. With so many ways to run a program, how do you know what you're actually executing? Use the built-in type command of the shell to reveal the truth. read more.

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Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

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Backing up MySQL data.

Backing up files and directories is relatively easy; databases, however, have some special quirks that you need to address. Our examples use MySQL, but the same principles apply to PostgreSQL and other relational databases. This article is excerpted from O'Reilly's recently published book Linux System Administration .

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