This manual describes how to use Valgrind, an award-winning suite of tools for debugging and profiling GNU/Linux programs. Valgrind detects memory and threading bugs automatically, avoiding hours of frustrating bug-hunting and making your programs more stable. You can also perform detailed profiling, to speed up your programs and [...]

Empower your students to be successful system and network administrators! This text is designed for a course exclusively in Linux shell script programming.
About the Author
Todd Meadors is a certified networking instructor at DeKalb Technical College and author of Lab Manual for Network+ Guide to Networks (CT, 2000).
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