Today I’ll be covering commands related to file viewing. These commands are cat, less, head, tail, nl, od, xxd, gv, and xdvi
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LCoTD: File Viewing
May 2
LCoTD: Directory Operations
Apr 24
Today I’ll be covering directory operations, which are- as you probably guessed- commands that manipulate directories. Specifically, cd, pwd, basename, dirname, mkdir, rmdir, and rm -r.
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LCoTD: Basic File Operations
Apr 19
One of the first things you’ll need to do on a Linux system is manipulate files: copying, renaming, deleting, and so forth. There are a number of commands to perform these actions, and they are: ls (list files in a directory), cp (Copy a file), mv (rename (“move”) a file), rm (Delete (“remove”) a file), and ln (Create links (alternative names) to a file). In today’s installment, we will cover all of these commands
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Today I’ll be covering job control. What exactly is job control, you ask? No, it isn’t resisting the urge to give your boss the finger every morning at 9:15am. All Linux shells have job control: the ability to run programs in the background (multitasking behind the scenes) and foreground (running as the active process at your shell prompt). A job is simply the shell’s unit of work. When you run a command interactively, your current shell tracks it as a job. When the command completes, the associated job disappears. Jobs are at a higher level than Linux processes; the Linux operating system knows nothing about them. They are merely constructs of the shell. Some important vocabulary about job control follow.
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This one’s a real doozie. In today’s Linux Command of the Day, I’ll be covering Input/Output redirection, pipes, combining commands, quoting, escaping, command-line editing, command history, and filename completion. I know it sounds like a lot, but it’s all really quite simple, and not too much to take in! But that doesn’t mean it isn’t essential to know- in fact, quite the opposite! This information could save your life one day (ok, maybe I’m being a bit dramatic for 99.98% of my readers, but for that 0.02%, you’ll be glad you read this!)
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Today we’ll be covering shell variables, search path, and aliases.
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Today, I’ll be covering the Linux “Shell”. In addition, I’ll be touching on the commands, who and type but the focus of this article is learning how the shell works, and by extension, what you are actually doing when you enter commands.
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In today’s installment, I will cover Operating System directories, and file protections. The ls and cat commands will be used, and you will be introduced to chown, chmod, and chgrp.
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Yesterday I covered home directories and a few commands that relate to the filesystem (namely pwd, echo, and cd). Today I will cover those mysterious and cryptic system directories.
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LCoTD: The Filesystem
Apr 3
Today’s LCoTD isn’t so much a single command as an introduction to the filesystem. Today, I’ll cover the cd command, the HOME variable, and the PWD and echo commands.
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