Bash is so powerful it scares me. It’s like Fred Flintstone riding a dinosaur to work: one false move and it’s gonna be mad destruction. So I love me some man pages. I also dig through the better online references. If you want man pages for a specific version of Ubuntu, nothing beats manpages.ubuntu.com. Check …
OpenVMS Commands Mapped to Unix/Linux Equivalents
I recently worked on a migration from OpenVMS to Red Hat Linux, and spent some serious effort porting VMS DCL (Direct Command Line) scripts to Python and Bash. The long-time VMS people were completely unfamiliar with the Linux command line, so we went looking for some good online resources that mapped DCL to Bash. (See …
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Linux: Creating and Deleting Directories and Files
This is post 11 of 11 in the series “The Linux Command Line” This series introduces students to the Linux bash command line, and covers directory navigation, file management, permissions and more. Using the Linux Command Line The Linux Directory Tree Linux Shells and Basic Commands Changing Passwords Your Home Directory User Information Linux User …
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Listing Files and Going Deep Into Filesystems
This is post 10 of 11 in the series “The Linux Command Line” This series introduces students to the Linux bash command line, and covers directory navigation, file management, permissions and more. Using the Linux Command Line The Linux Directory Tree Linux Shells and Basic Commands Changing Passwords Your Home Directory User Information Linux User …
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Your Home Directory
This is post 5 of 11 in the series “The Linux Command Line” This series introduces students to the Linux bash command line, and covers directory navigation, file management, permissions and more. Using the Linux Command Line The Linux Directory Tree Linux Shells and Basic Commands Changing Passwords Your Home Directory User Information Linux User …
Linux Shells and Basic Commands
This is post 3 of 11 in the series “The Linux Command Line” This series introduces students to the Linux bash command line, and covers directory navigation, file management, permissions and more. Using the Linux Command Line The Linux Directory Tree Linux Shells and Basic Commands Changing Passwords Your Home Directory User Information Linux User …
The Linux Directory Tree
This is post 2 of 11 in the series “The Linux Command Line” This series introduces students to the Linux bash command line, and covers directory navigation, file management, permissions and more. Using the Linux Command Line The Linux Directory Tree Linux Shells and Basic Commands Changing Passwords Your Home Directory User Information Linux User …
Scripting : Exercise 2
This is post 13 of 19 in the series “[ Shell Scripting ]” This series introduces students to Linux and Unix bash shell scripting. Unix Shell Scripting Shell Basics Testing in bash Capturing User Input Scripting : Exercise 1 Debugging Bourne/Bash/Korn Commands Shell Variables IO Redirection Pipes Operators, Wildcards and Expressions Flow Control Scripting : …
Flow Control
This is post 12 of 19 in the series “[ Shell Scripting ]” This series introduces students to Linux and Unix bash shell scripting. Unix Shell Scripting Shell Basics Testing in bash Capturing User Input Scripting : Exercise 1 Debugging Bourne/Bash/Korn Commands Shell Variables IO Redirection Pipes Operators, Wildcards and Expressions Flow Control Scripting : …
Operators, Wildcards and Expressions
This is post 11 of 19 in the series “[ Shell Scripting ]” This series introduces students to Linux and Unix bash shell scripting. Unix Shell Scripting Shell Basics Testing in bash Capturing User Input Scripting : Exercise 1 Debugging Bourne/Bash/Korn Commands Shell Variables IO Redirection Pipes Operators, Wildcards and Expressions Flow Control Scripting : …