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Linux Command Line [Video]

By : ACI Learning, Don Pezet, Daniel Lowrie
Book Image

Linux Command Line [Video]

By: ACI Learning, Don Pezet, Daniel Lowrie

Overview of this book

The course begins with the basics of terminals and shells, setting the foundation for interaction with Linux at a fundamental level. It progresses to cover essential commands for navigating the filesystem and managing files, ensuring students can efficiently organize and manipulate data within the Linux environment. The journey continues through advanced topics such as process management, storage optimization, and package management across Debian and Red Hat systems, ensuring a well-rounded skill set. The course focuses on practical skills, including installing software from source, navigating text editors like vi, vim, and nano, and managing environment variables and file permissions. It emphasizes the importance of these skills in real-world scenarios, illustrating how they contribute to effective system administration and development practices. The course wraps up by exploring file systems, locating files, and utilizing other useful commands that streamline daily tasks. By the end of this course, students will have navigated through the most significant aspects of the Linux command line, equipped with the knowledge to apply these skills in a professional setting.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 3
Advanced Shell Commands
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Section 3
Finding Files
In this episode, Don explains how difficult it can be to find files inside of a Linux system due to distribution fragmentation. He then demonstrates numerous methods that can be used to locate files quickly and easily. Specifically, he demonstrates the which, whereis, locate, find, and grep commands.