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In this series, I will share my learning outcomes while going through the The Linux Command Line Bootcamp: Beginner To Power User course by Colt Steele on Udemy
The World Of Operating Systems Most operating systems can be grouped into two families: The Microsoft NT descendants including Windows, Xbox OS, and Windows Phone/Mobile Pretty much everything else has a lineage going back to Unix, including Mac OS...
The Prompt When we open up our terminal, we'll see our prompt which will likely include your username@machinename, followed by a ~ and then a dollar sign. You may see this pattern or not depending on whether you are using Ubuntu or WSL(Windows Subsys...
You can navigate between files by clicking on them or moving across them using the much faster command line. The Root Directory The starting point for the file system is the root folder. We call it the root, but its actual directory name is "/" Co...
cat The cat command concatenates and prints the contents of files. cat <filename> will read the contents of a file and print them out. For example, cat instructions.txt will read in from the instructions.txt file and then print the contents out to ...
Standard Streams The three standard streams are communication channels between a computer program and its environment. They are: Standard Input Standard Output Standard Error Standard Output Standard output is a place to which a program or ...
locate The locate command performs a search of pathnames across our machine that match a given substring and then prints out any matching names. You have to install this command as it does not comes pre-installed It is nice and speedy because it use...
