I have been a Windows user for a long time, but that changed. One day I bought a mac, and I loved it so much the closest thing to it, was to get Linux on my desktop which ive done. But theres one problem. I don't understand the terminal all that well. I learned about changing directories and copying and moving, but I want to do more than that. I want to learn the terminal so I can have some fun with Linux.
I hope you guys can help me out. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit.
Thanks in advance :)
Well what else do you want to do?
The best way to get into the terminal is literally to just try and use it for everything.
System Resource Manager = NOPE. Use "top" or install "glances".
Want to shutdown the machine... "shutdown -P now" (to shutdown immediately) or "shutdown -P 5m" to shutdown in 5 minutes or "shutdown -P 12:00" to shutdown at 12pm.
You can literally use the terminal for anything as I mentioned previously, the best way to get into the terminal is literally to just try and use it for everything.
Try learning Shell Script (Bash). You can program that directly into the terminal, and could help with at least some of the syntactical stuff. Beyond that, it's just looking up commands and some of their options.
Thanks! I'll try that! I've heard you can use the terminal to remotely control a computer and stuff. And I wanna try that. But thanks! Any tips and tricks right now is all I want and need :)
Okay, I'll try that! Thanks!
Nixie pixel is doing some videos to get you into bash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73WTEltyHU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7-aEspwwEI
One way to get over the fear of using the terminal is to install programs using sudo apt-get install <name of program>. Here is a fun one for you. Sudo apt-get install cmatrix. After it installs, type clear in the terminal and hit enter, then type cmatrix and hit enter.
The terminal is not something to be scared of, it is a very powerful tool and has saved me countless headaches.
This is the best way to get into linux, including the terminal (that I have found so far):
http://shop-download.linupfront.de/cc/lxes-en-manual-cc.pdf
Do the exercises, they're awesome.
is there a book i can order from amazon that you recommend? i've looked and they have a few but i don't trust most of the reviews. any experience with this one http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Essentials-Certification-All--Guide/dp/007181101X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1394560552&sr=8-2&keywords=Linux+Essentials
The book that I recommended is free, you can save it to your hard drive.
If you don't like that book, here's where you can find more resources:
http://www.lpi.org/exam-preparation
The official LPI site, you can find books under "Books", and the book that I recommended is under "Free Study Resources" . There are other free books there, but the one that I recommended is my favorite because it's not purely technicial, it also touches on the history of linux and linux distros, and it talks about open source and free software. Like I've said, the exercises are really fun, they aren't dry, and some not even technical at all.
As far as other books go, I cannot recommend any, sorry. I haven't finished reading all the free books yet :)
EDIT: Forgot to mention this, I don't know if you are aware of this, but linux is just the kernel (the part of the operating system that communicates with the hardware), and when it was first released, it was released together with the GNU operating system, which was missing the kernel at the time (now they have developed their own microkernel, Hurd). I recommend you take a look at their website, especially the philosphy section.
https://gnu.org/
You should also watch one of Richard Stallman's videos:
http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/
I'm not suggesting this because I agree or disagree with Richard Stallman, I'm recommending it because his views (and the views of the Free Software Foundation) are interesting, and people should be aware of them if only because, historically speaking, GNU is a very important part of linux.
oh i'm sure the E-book is great i just like to have a dead tree version is all. but i like how they don't stay strictly with the technical. placing all of this technical stuff into context with a back story would really help to understand a lot of things i'm sure.
Yep i'm fairly familiar with the history of linux and GNU, as well as linus and Stallman. i find them both very interesting in there own ways and it seems it takes crazy ass people of the likes to create something so awesome lol.
if you dont have access to a linux computer you can sign up for a free server on amazon and install a linux server to play around on.
Err... print it? I do it with all online study materials, including those that I mentioned.
I've also seen on some online sites that have tutorials about programming (like Programming, Motherfucker) people recommending that you print your code, then correct your code and make notes with a pencil. For some, nothing beats a pencil and paper for studying.