
Open the terminal, navigate the Unix file system, and understand directories and permissions. Learn file operations like copy, move, remove, rename, mkdir and rm, with wildcards and input/output redirection.
Open the terminal on the Ubuntu desktop by searching for the terminal and launching the Terminal application. Then pin the terminal to the taskbar for quick access on any Linux system.
Navigate linux shell directories using cd, pwd, and ls; learn about tilde for home, root paths, and navigating with dot and dot dot.
Learn to list and inspect files with ls, using -l for details and -a for hidden items; identify files, directories, and links, and understand root and home directories.
Explore how Linux file permissions work by using ls -l to read the owner, group, and other rights (read, write, execute) and the file type.
Discover how Unix permissions map to binary bits for read, write, and execute across owner, group, and others. Use chmod to set 644 or 755 and verify with ls -l.
This course is teaches the basics of using the linux shell, and is intended as a first course in using the terminal. In next 30 minutes you will learn get familiar with linux terminal by understanding how navigate the directory structure, how to list content of directory and understand how file permissions works along with how to change file permissions.
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This course is a lite version of our main linux shell course for beginners.
I hope you join me as we explore basic linux file and directory structure together.