So easy??

[Smart Viking]

Hi everyone, I'm writing this pointless thread, since I have been sitting the last 6 hours in front of a terminal tutorial, and guess what, I can use it now!

I can't program or anything, I don't understand, i can lots of commands, and I dont need to even look at the tutorial to write long advanced commands, i just wrote them,i was doing things all the time that the toturial diddnt ask me to per example with "|" this thingy and it was super amazing.

I'm shocked, I never thought I would have so small problems learning how to use the terminal efficiently! Did some of you have the same experience like I just did when you learned the terminal?

:P:P:P

[mybunche]

No, unfortunately I was around when there was only the terminal. Ah! Where's my youth gone! You always can get a book or there's online help to help you understand the basics. You'll get used to it anyway. Once you know the basics things just flow on from there.

[Smart Viking]

No, unfortunately I was around when there was only the terminal. Ah! Where's my youth gone! You always can get a book or there's online help to help you understand the basics. You'll get used to it anyway. Once you know the basics things just flow on from there.

Right! I knew manu basic commands, and knew how to run things as root and stuff, but only very few basic commands, i couldn't navigate around the file system at all before this morning, now it all seems so easy to me! :KS:guitar:

EDIT: Ups I see now I actually said two different things there, many basic commands and only a few basic commands :D:D But ya'll know what i mean XD

[Bölvaður]

Thats great to hear.
I dont know how to use the terminal even though I use it every other day.... but then again most of my commands are pretty simple like my alarm function that is just

sleep 1800 && totem ~/Music/alarm.ogg

[Smart Viking]

Thats great to hear.

sleep 1800 && totem ~/Music/alarm.ogg

Well I don't know how simple that is to me :P

But if you can't navigate and understand what commands mean take the same tutorial as me, it is ridiculously simple when you understand it I promise! :D

http://linuxcommand.org/

Take the time, it is well spent time i can assure you! You feel much more professional! :D

[Bodsda]

Hi everyone, I'm writing this pointless thread, since I have been sitting the last 6 hours in front of a terminal tutorial, and guess what, I can use it now!

I can't program or anything, I don't understand, i can lots of commands, and I dont need to even look at the tutorial to write long advanced commands, i just wrote them,i was doing things all the time that the toturial diddnt ask me to per example with "|" this thingy and it was super amazing.

I'm shocked, I never thought I would have so small problems learning how to use the terminal efficiently! Did some of you have the same experience like I just did when you learned the terminal?

:P:P:P

You are a success story for all those new users saying they dont want to use the terminal! Congratulations, you should feel quite proud.

But remember, you can never stop learning. I use the terminal 80% of the time, but I still learn new things everyday. One of the most useful commands that I use is
!!
That will run the last command you ran. So say you were trying to edit your fstab

vim /etc/fstab
and you get access denied, just run
sudo !! and it will run
sudo vim /etc/fstab

These little tricks will save you a lot of time.
Well done

Bodsda

[sudoer541]

<------------------------------------------ back to the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

[J V]

Hmm... I knew a bit of php before this, so I understood the concepts of piping, redirecting, etc well...

When I finally got the syntax bash was awesome :)

and if you can't figure out a pipe, you can always:
tar -x `wget http://google.com`

[LeifAndersen]

My university had a lame class that all CS and Computer Engineers (and probably electrical engineers along with most other engineers) had to take, ECE 1010, Intro. to Unix (although the entire 'course' was taught in Linux). I swear half of it was 'we need you to know our lab policies, along with the basics of how to use a computer that doesn't have a big START button on it, so we'll give you .5 credits for it and call it a class, never mind that it's pointless as no other class in the entire university has .5 credits, but you still have to take it'. I already knew much terminal basics, but I did learn a few tricks I didn't before (such as piping through less).

[madjr]

welcome to the cool and mysterious terminal world (is like living in tron ^^)

http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2009/10/play-tetris-in-ubuntu-terminal.html

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/play-games-inside-your-linux-terminal/

http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/friday-fun-useful-linux-terminal-commands-for-new-users/

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_0GnY693NakM/Su0gzhopOzI/AAAAAAAABFo/fEGmFmEvhEM/s320/screenshot_081_thumb%5B1%5D.png


oh and play some light bot and program like a pro :)

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Coolio_Niato/light-bot

more terminal and programming goodies in full circle mag
http://fullcirclemagazine.org/