Linux Command Line: From novice to wizard

Here you will learn how open, read and search the manual pages for all the command in Linux. This way you can always get help, directly in the system. This is also a perfect way to dig deeper into the various commands in Linux!

Don't know the name of a command? Or don't know what a command does? No problem, in this lecture you'll learn how search for a command, and also how to find out what a command does.

Get quick and compact information on a command with the -h option.

Learn how to auto complete commands and find new ones, using the tab key.

A short summary of what you have learned in this section

Get an overview of what the filesystem in Linux looks like. It's important to understand the overall structure of the filesystem to feel confident in working with Linux.

Here you will learn how to navigate the Linux filesystem. You will learn both new commands and what the two special directories "." and ".." actually means.

Learn what's inside the different top-level directories

After completing this lecture you'll be able to find out what kind of content is in a particular file. You'll also be able to view the file content.

Learn how to use the touch command, both to create files, and update the time stamp

Learn the fundamentals of the Linux filesystem, which is inodes

Dive deeper into the filesystem by examining the inodes with 'stat'

Learn what the UNIX/Linux term "everything is just a file" really mean, and why it's a so important topic

A summary and a talk about why the filesystem is such an important skill to have.

Time to start learning some editors!

Here you learn how to move around in a document in vi

Now it's time to actually edit a file

Master more advanced topics such as search and substituting!

Master the more simpler nano editor

A short recap of what we have learned, and a big congratulations!

An introduction to users, groups and permissions

Get a hands on overview and introduction to users & permissions so that you'll understand the concepts more deeply as we move along in this section

After this section you'll know what, when and how to use the execute permission

Learn how users and groups fit together, how many groups you can be a member of and so forth

In this lecture you will learn two fundamental things. What the root user is, and what it's used for. And how to become root, both via su and sudo.

Here you will acquire all the skills to be able to change permissions for files and directories.

Learn how to create new users and groups on your system. A common administrative task if you're in charge of servers.

Learn how to change the owner and the group of a file or directory.

It's also important to know how to remove users and groups that no longer active on the system. This is what you will learn here.

A short recap of what we have learned, together with some useful commands.

In this lecture you will learn what package manager most likely exists in your own distribution.

Libraries and dependencies are pretty a big thing in Linux. Learn what these really are, and why it's so important.

Here you will learn how to work with yum to install and remove software on your system. You'll also learn how to update you system, search for new packages and a lot more.

yum is used on CentOS, Red Hat and other distributions based on those.

Here you will learn how to work with dnf to install and remove software on your system. You'll also learn how to update you system, search for new packages and a lot more.

dnf is used on Fedora since version 18, and is the default package manager from version 22 and up.

Here you will learn how to work with zypper to install and remove software on your system. You'll also learn how to update you system, search for new packages and a lot more.

zypper is used on SuSE and OpenSUSE.

Here you will learn how to work with apt to install and remove software on your system. You'll also learn how to update you system, search for new packages and a lot more.

apt is used on Debian-based system, such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint among others.

An introduction to what the shell is, and what you will learn in this section.

Learn how redirections work with standard input, output and error.

Learn how to redirect standard output.

Learn how to append data to an already existing file with redirection

Learn how to redirect standard input.

Learn how to redirect one programs output into the input of another program, and create a long chain of filters.

When regular pipes arn't enough, you can use a FIFO instead. This is what you will learn here.

Learn how to multitask between many programs, using a single terminal.

A summary of what you have learned about the shell.

An introduction to what you will learn in this section

This lecture is a description of a project that we will work on throughout this section. 

Here you will learn how to remove unwanted characters, such as spaces and dots.

In this lecture you will learn how to remove empty lines from the list. We will use sed for this, a really powerful tool.

In this lecture you'll learn how to sort the list, and then remove any duplicates.

Awk is really powerful tool. In this lecture you'll get a quick introduction to the most commonly used feature of awk.

A short summary of what you have learned in this section, and why text manipulation is important.

An introduction to this section and to process management

Learn what parents, children and owners are, and how processes are related to each other.

Learn how to find and view processes on the system.

Learn how to use the top and htop programs to monitor the system and it's processes.

Learn how to kill processes on a Linux system, and what different kinds of signals you can send to a process.

Learn how to keep running your processes on the system, even though you log out.

A quick recap of what we have learned about process management.