Claim OwnershipLinux for the Layman: the Joy of Computing.
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Enjoy using your computer easily, securely and for less money. You can achieve this goal with free, open-source software (FOSS), like Linux. Anyone can learn to use FOSS and Linux. Feel free to contact me at LinuxForTheLayman@gmail.com. Questions and constructive feedback are always welcome. Here's to your joy with computing!
43 Episodes
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I cover some of the most basic Linux commands a new user is likely to want to learn and play with. This includes pwd, cd, ls, echo, cat, cp, mv, rm, and touch. We're just scratching the surface here...
We go through the 'cd' command, its options, and some useful aliases. We also cover some of the "universal" options for most Linux commands.
Discussion of the 'which' and 'tlrd' commands. Thank you for the comments.
You get to find out why I've been absent for so long. Also, we'll take a mild dive into the grep command. Cheers!
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What Virtual Machines are good for (evaluating Linux distros) and which ones to use. An example of how and why to use a Bash function. Overview of manual pages and the tldr command.
What is an alias? How to create them.
What is a function? How to create them.
Some miscellany along the way... :-)
We will go through a detailed example of how to string commands together on the command line using pipes.
This continues from Episode 37 on the terminal shell
I also briefly touch on shell variables - more in the next episode coming soon I hope...
Today I cover the idea of bash shortcuts, including scripts, aliases and functions. I also go over a couple of short answers to listener questiosn and praise for ffmpeg.
In this episode we cover more on how to ues the tab key for command and variable name completion; we also cover some accounting information.
This episode covers some of the basics about Linux Shell variables.
Feel free to let me know if you like this, if you have questions, even if you hated it - I'm hre to serve you. LinuxForTheLayman@gmail.com
All mentions of the word "bracket" or "brackets" should be read/heard as "brace" and "braces" - these { } instead of these [ ]. My goof, correction at the end of the episode.
I am grateful to all my listeners, contributors, questioners and feedback-senders. More to come soon...
More information about command line options, and also help/man pages.
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