User Days Command Line Basics Session

Shell, Bash

1. What is a shell.
2. What is bash, Bourne again shell, Bourne shell
3. Other shells, dash
4. builtins, programs and processes

Key Concept: Where am I?

1. Where am I?
2. Let's go somewhere else.
3. What is here?
4. Viewing the content of a file.
5. Moving files and directories.

Short Cuts or How to Not Type So Much

1. tab completion
2. aliases
3. history

Getting information

1. apropos
2. man and info

Getting a Little Fancy

1. Piping to less.
2. Redirecting output to a file.
3. Basic grep.
4. Finding and killing a process

Some Tools

1. A file manager: midnight commander.
2. A web browser: lynx and/or links.
3. An email client: alpine.

References

1. tldp.org
2. Learning the Bash Shell
3. What are you forgetting Mark?