Practical Linux with Raspberry Pi OS: Quick Start

Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to Raspberry Pi
	Single-Board Computers
	Raspberry Pi
	Linux and Distributions
		Raspberry Pi OS
	Raspberry Pi OS Setup
		Preparing the SD Card Manually
		Booting Up the Pi Board for the First Time
	Configuring the RPi Board
	Connecting Various RPi Board Models to the Internet
	Summary
Chapter 2: Getting Ready
	Operating System Shell
	Raspberry Pi OS GUI
	The Command Prompt
		Updating the RPi OS
	Linux Filesystem
	Remotely Accessing the RPi
	Summary
Chapter 3: Directory Commands and Text Editors
	Absolute and Relative Paths
	Commands: pwd, tree, and cd
	Command: ls
	Command: touch
	Various Text Editors
	Create and Delete Directories
	Case-Sensitive Names of Directories and Files
	Summary
Chapter 4: More Commands
	Configuring the RPi Board
		What Is sudo?
	Getting Help on Commands
	Network-Related Commands
	Commands: File Operations
	Printing a String
	Control Operators
	Filename Globbing
	Command: History
	Pipes
	Summary
Chapter 5: Useful Unix Commands and Tools
	Shell and Environment Variables
	Useful Linux Commands
	Useful Unix Tools
	Summary
Chapter 6: Shell Scripting
	Unix File Permissions
	Command: nohup
	Beginning Shell Scripting
	User Input
	Expressions in the Shell
	If Statement
	Switch Case
	Length of a Shell Variable
	Command-Line Arguments
	Function
	Loops in the Shell
	Comparing Strings
	File Operations
	Summary
Chapter 7: I/O Redirection and Cron
	I/O Redirection
		stdin
		stdout
		Stderr
	Crontab
	Summary
Chapter 8: Introduction to  High-Level Programming Languages
	C and C++ Programming
	Python Programming Language
		History of the Python Programming Language
		Python Enhancement Proposals
			Philosophy of the Python Programming Language
		Applications of Python
	Python 3 on Debian Derivatives
	Python Modes
		Interactive Mode
		Script Mode
	Summary
Chapter 9: Programming with RPi GPIO
	General-Purpose Input/Output Pins
	Programming with GPIO
	Summary
Chapter 10: Explore the RPi OS GUI
	GUI Utilities on the RPi OS
	Other Desktop Environments
		XFCE
		KDE Plasma
	Summary
Appendix: Additional Tools
	Raspberry Pi Imager
	Additional Utilities
	Manjaro Linux
	FreeBSD
	Additional OSs
Index