
Discover that Linux is not difficult, only different, and master 75 commands to perform daily tasks: browse, edit, save, share, compress, install, and cleanup on laptop or server.
Master the three core Linux commands pwd, cd, and ls to identify your present working directory, navigate using absolute and relative paths, and view detailed file listings, including hidden files.
Learn how to bundle and compress files in linux using tar, zip, gzip, and gunzip. Demonstrate creating, compressing, and extracting archives with tar zcvf and zxvf commands.
Explore how distributed systems connect across cloud environments, using wget, curl, scp, and ssh to download, transfer files, and manage multi-host workflows.
Use reboot and shutdown -r to restart or shut down linux systems, noting the one-minute delay for shutdown -r and the requirement of root or sudo privileges for remote sessions.
Linux is NOT difficult. Its just slightly different.
If you are using a Windows or Mac laptop then you are doing almost all the tasks that a linux user does. Repeating again, linux is not difficult , its just slightly different.
This course will teach you 10 categories of commands ( a total of 75 commands) that are used by any advanced linux user to do 95% of the tasks on a daily basis.
For each command,
purpose of the command , (explained)
demo of the command and the meaning of the output of the command , (shown/explained)
a github page with instructions on how to execute the command , ( url provided)
a browser-based linux environment provided for practice ( live linux environment provided)
At the end of the course there is a quiz with questions covering all the commands in the quiz.
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Linux is NOT difficult. Its just slightly different.
If you are using a Windows or Mac laptop then you are doing almost all the tasks that a linux user does. Repeating again, linux is not difficult , its just slightly different.
This course will teach you 10 categories of commands ( a total of 75 commands) that are used by any advanced linux user to do 95% of the tasks on a daily basis.
For each command,
purpose of the command , (explained)
demo of the command and the meaning of the output of the command , (shown/explained)
a github page with instructions on how to execute the command , ( url provided)
a browser-based linux environment provided for practice ( live linux environment provided)
At the end of the course there is a quiz with questions covering all the commands in the quiz.
[update - October'2022] - replaced katacoda practice environments with killercoda practice environments on github page. Now learners can start using killercoda free account to practice the commands on the github page.
[update - November'2022] - autogenerated captions replaced with manually fixed captions. Hopefully it will be helpful if you are using captions.