For anyone just starting I highly recommend: "Linux Pocket Guide" and if moving forward adopting linux as a daily driver "Efficient Linux At The Command Line". Both books by Daniel J. Barnett.
Even if you're a seasoned Linux user you will learn a lot from those books.
The pocket is perfect for beginners. It has a nice introduction in chapter 1 that explains all essential concepts to understand and operate the console. Then it is basically a sort of reference of a moderate list of most useful commands for performing different tasks.
The "Efficient" book is an in depth walkthrough of the shell and how to reason and combine important commands to perform not trivial tasks. It is certainly a book to be re-read from time to time because it has plenty of good tricks and explanations.
Adobe fixes PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have exploited for months
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-security-bug-that-hackers-have-exploited-for-months/
Why is this marked (2019)? Besides the book PDF, everything seems to have been created in a commit 3 weeks ago. The way some things are phrased smells of LLM style as well.
For anyone just starting I highly recommend: "Linux Pocket Guide" and if moving forward adopting linux as a daily driver "Efficient Linux At The Command Line". Both books by Daniel J. Barnett.
Even if you're a seasoned Linux user you will learn a lot from those books.
Just a nitpick: Barrett, not Barnett. It's nice to see a new edition of Linux Pocket Guide come out just 2 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Barrett
Thanks for pointing it out! I visually checked the books on the shelf but my eyes tricked me and confused "rr" by "rn".
Thank you for the recommendation. Both books seem to about the command line. How are the books different?
The pocket is perfect for beginners. It has a nice introduction in chapter 1 that explains all essential concepts to understand and operate the console. Then it is basically a sort of reference of a moderate list of most useful commands for performing different tasks.
The "Efficient" book is an in depth walkthrough of the shell and how to reason and combine important commands to perform not trivial tasks. It is certainly a book to be re-read from time to time because it has plenty of good tricks and explanations.
You should really remove the entire PDF of the book that you've shared on a public repo. No Starch Press is a gem and worth protecting.
That's the first edition (2019), not the second (2025). But both are in annas archive, anyway
"Someone else has pirated this, so it's OK for me to do it as well" isn't a good argument.
If you see litter on the ground already, that doesn't make it OK to litter more.
It's also freely available from https://kea.nu/files/textbooks/humblesec/linuxbasicsforhacke... and plenty other places with a quick search.
first edition is also available on Internet Archive in multiple formats
Not to mention
Why is that relevant? Are you saying that this PDF is infected?
On top of that, who uses Adobe software to read most PDFs?
What has this to do with "hackers"? And can you share your experience in your personal study with "ifconfig" as described in Module 3?
Looks like someone just pointed an LLM at the PDF and asked it to write a Markdown version. Very poor show.
I would say knowing linux basics should probably come _before_ identifying as a "hacker"
Why is this marked (2019)? Besides the book PDF, everything seems to have been created in a commit 3 weeks ago. The way some things are phrased smells of LLM style as well.
Based on the nearly decade old first edition of the book (2018). I was wondering about the retro vibes.
the kind of post I internet for. A+. thank you
pure rage bait
Just had a quick look, Damn this looks good man!