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Recommend good SSH Linux reading

I'm new to Linux and SSH and there are tons of books about using Linux.  Cany anyone recommend a good, beginners-version of understanding and using Linux and, as a bonus, an explanation of SSH as it applies to reading, changing, editing, downloading files and directories from an Apache server?

Thanks!
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SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
By Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman
ISBN: 0-596-00011-1

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg/
Bonus:

SSL and TLS: Designing and Building Secure Systems, Addison-Wesley, 2001 ISBN 0-201-61598-3

http://www.rtfm.com/sslbook/
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Thanks Don --
Are you familiar enough with SSH and Putty to answer a simple beginner's question or two?
go ahead and ask
Thanks --

1 -- For some reason, 'pico' doesn't work as a file editor for my download of PuTTY.  When I try using 'pico' I get a '-bash: pico: command not found' error.   I thought 'pico' was a standard command with Linux.

2 -- When using VI to edit a file, what is the command to save what you've changed and exit out of the file?  Is it :wq ?

3 -- Can you explain the purpose and use of 'wget' ?  I think it's the command to download a particular file from my remote Linux server to my home desktop computer where PuTTY is running.  Is this even possible?
1) pico is not a standard program
  "command not found" has nothing to do with putty, ssh or hatever you use for connection, but with your shell environment your get/set at login

2) :wq
   ZZ

3) man wget


marcparillo, you adding more question which are not related to the initial question and its title. Please open new threads for these questions.
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