the linux cookbook

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Mon Dec 7 20:26:19 UTC 2009


Do you mean the O'Reilly book titled "Linux Cookbook"? I'm thinking there 
cannot be another one. But that book and all O'Reilly books are on the 
bookshare.org web site.

I'm not sure if you have to register to download those O'Reilly books. I 
would assume so. But it is well worth it.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Chase" <blinux.list at thechases.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: the linux cookbook


>> Is there a way I can download the online linux cookbook and read it 
>> offline in a text file?
>
> I didn't see any "download this" link on the site for any
> particular format, whether PDF, HTML, CHM, or plain-text.
> However, I suspect you could use "wget" to slurp the site to a
> locally cached copy.  A little googling also turned up this PDF:
>
> http://oss.sgi.com/LDP/LDP/linuxcookbook/linuxcookbook-1.2.pdf
>
> which appears to be the whole thing (about 7.5 megs).
>
>> I'm using windows xp,
>
> To use wget, you'd either have to download a version for Win32,
> or if you have the cygwin toolkit installed, use that.
>
> -tim
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