Hallo hyde!

 hd> Does any one have a suggestion of a book that will provide the
 hd> same experience in learning to use Debian Linux?

I know of a much better idea that will definetly steer you towards what was
probably closest to the original way (pre-Debian) one got a linux root/boot
system off the ground.  Check http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ for all the gory
details.

As for the commandline any book/tutorial on shell scripting (eg bash) most
often contains examples of using basic commands within a shell script which
will shed light on the usage of such commands as well as learning basic builtin
shell commands.  Things like sed, grep, tar, date, etc. are oft used commands
within a shell script.  This is probably the best way to learn linux as well as
any other unixie enviroment.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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