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demetris · 2012-05-04
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I don’t know about must-read ones, but here are a few No Starch and O’Reilly titles that stand out from a quick look at my library:
No Starch, Eloquent JavaScript. A Modern Introduction to Programming: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272821.do
No Starch, The Book of CSS3: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593272869.do
O’Reilly, bash Cookbook: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596526788.do
O’Reilly, CSS: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596802455.do
O’Reilly, JavaScript: The Good Parts: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do
O’Reilly, Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596528126.do
O’Reilly, The Art of SEO, 2nd Edition: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920019091.do
> cat > /dev/tcp/www.google.com/443
I was unfamiliar with this device so I googled a bit. This isn't a real file/device, it's a bash-ism when built with --enable-net-redirections (apparently disabled in debian-based distros [1]).
That's too bad, would have been cool to have such easy access to sockets anywhere using fopen().
1. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/bash-cookbook/059652678...