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digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/05/07/a-quick-note-on-security/’;I saw this on Digg’s upcoming stories today: Totally complete sources.list for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and felt a chill of terror. Visions of masses of users new to Ubuntu (and Linux in general), downloading this sources.list [...]
digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/05/02/lcotd-file-viewing/’;Today I’ll be covering commands related to file viewing. These commands are cat, less, head, tail, nl, od, xxd, gv, and xdvi
digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/04/24/lcotd-directory-operations/’;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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digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/04/19/lcotd-basic-file-operations/’;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 [...]
digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/04/17/5-must-have-linux-desktop-apps/’;In my last Linux Command of the Day article, I covered how to install any software package in Linux. Shortly after, I found this post over at darxr.net. What a perfect chance to put your new skills to the test! (Yes, I know The GIMP is mentioned, and I previously said [...]
digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/04/17/lcotd-installing-software-under-ubuntu-and-most-other-distros/’;OK, so the thing that kept me from using Linux for the longest time was the fact that it had little to no software availability. Or so I thought. While it remains true that I use Photoshop and 3D Studio MAX above all else, and will never fully switch to Linux [...]
digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/?p=58′;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 [...]
digg_url = ‘http://blog.georgegumpert.com/?p=56′;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 [...]
Today we’ll be covering shell variables, search path, and aliases.
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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