Learning Linux Command Line

Introduction

• Learning Linux command line
• What you should know
• A very quick intro to Linux

1. Setting Up Your Environment

• Using GitHub Codespaces with this course
• Creating a Linux virtual machine
• Following along on other platforms

2. Command-Line Basics

• What is the command line?
• Understand how commands are structured
• Write commands in a shell at the prompt
• Finding help for commands
• Helpful keyboard shortcuts in the terminal
• Challenge: Find command information
• Solution: Find command information

3. Files, Directories, and Permissions

• The Linux file system
• Understanding file paths
• Navigating the file system
• Finding directory and file information
• Create and remove directories
• Copy, move, and delete files and directories
• Find files from the command line
• Understand user roles and sudo
• Understand file permissions
• Modify file permissions
• Create hard and symbolic links
• Challenge: Fix broken syntax
• Solution: Fix broken syntax
• Challenge: Practice working with files
• Solution: Practice working with files

4. Common Command-Line Tasks and Tools

• The importance of modularity
• Use pipes to connect commands together
• View text files with cat, head, tail, and less
• Search for text in files and streams with grep
• Manipulate text with awk, sed, and sort
• Edit text with Vim
• Edit text with nano
• Working with tar and zip archives
• Challenge: Create and share a file
• Solution: Create and share a file
• Output redirection
• Exploring environment variables and PATH
• Challenge: Extract information from a text file
• Solution: Extract information from a text file

5. A Peek at Some More Advanced Topics

• Find information about your Linux distribution
• Find system hardware and disk information
• Install and update software with a package manager

Conclusion

• Next steps