Monday, February 23, 2009

185 Linux CLI today

Today, we begin working in the Linux CLI. We'll do pretty much the same things we've done in Windows, but we'll be doing them remotely on a machine on the Woodbridge campus.

Linux/Unix machines offer a variety of choices for command shells: a popular one is bash, which stands for Bourne-again shell, which followed the Bourne shell. (These Unix guys are a riot!) Bash is a very popular choice and is used in Ubuntu Linux as well as the Macintosh OS.

Here's the handout for today, and a few links follow:

how many bash references can you use, anyway? put the word bashin the search box

exploring the shell: that's for us!

here's a chapter on aliases: understanding these will be very valuable

reference comparing Windows CLI and bash; this guy has a lot of good ones, so no surprise that he teaches in a community college!

long list of bash commands

bash commands sorted by type

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