Linux Command Line Learning Resources

[veiledvenus]

@cortman

One little-known book is "Linux for System Administrators (with Notes on Linux Installation)" -- it was written April 2005 by a Seattle community college professor. I took his course, and "the book" (a printed packet about a third of an inch thick) is the one I use most often for reference. It's located, in total, for free at its permalink - http://168.156.125.36/The_Book.html

A great deal of the book is involved with administration of a linux install from the command-line. It has some discussion about the different shells and the difference in commands, but almost all the commands are geared toward bash.

[MG&TL]

I don't think this has been posted yet, but feel free to yell at me if it has.

http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/

Has a load of tutorials on various things, my personal favourites being the ones on grep, sed, and awk. And regular expressions, of course.

[blessedcross7]

Hi im new just saying hi my name is chris. sorry if this is the wrong spot to post.. im currently running Ubuntu 10.04

[sudodus]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Forums Chris

If you want to you can present yourself in a separate thread.

And if/when you have problems or questions, please start a new thread with an appropriate and descriptive title, so that people who know about it and are interested in it will find it.

[gdea73]

Very helpful list of links. One aspect of working with the gnome-terminal that I found helpful was figuring out how to skip around text with the keyboard. It's almost definitely covered somewhere in the list, but I found the information somewhat buried when I searched for it, so I can make a really superficial list.

Moving Cursor & Text Manipulation

Left (word length): Ctrl + Left Arrow
Right (word length): Ctrl + Right Arrow
Left (character): Right Arrow, or Ctrl + B
Right (character): Left Arrow, or Ctrl + F
Skip to Beginning: Home, Ctrl + A
Skip to End (of line): End, Ctrl + E
Delete line from left of cursor: Ctrl + U
Delete line from after cursor: Ctrl + K
Delete word before cursor: Ctrl + W

Other shortcuts:
Enter command: (Enter, of course), Ctrl + J, Ctrl + N, Ctrl + I
Enter previous command (from history): Ctrl + P

Most of these were found by experimentation, I can't guarantee they'll all work, but they should.

[cortman]

Very helpful list of links. One aspect of working with the gnome-terminal that I found helpful was figuring out how to skip around text with the keyboard. It's almost definitely covered somewhere in the list, but I found the information somewhat buried when I searched for it, so I can make a really superficial list.

Moving Cursor & Text Manipulation

Left (word length): Ctrl + Left Arrow
Right (word length): Ctrl + Right Arrow
Left (character): Right Arrow, or Ctrl + B
Right (character): Left Arrow, or Ctrl + F
Skip to Beginning: Home, Ctrl + A
Skip to End (of line): End, Ctrl + E
Delete line from left of cursor: Ctrl + U
Delete line from after cursor: Ctrl + K
Delete word before cursor: Ctrl + W

Other shortcuts:
Enter command: (Enter, of course), Ctrl + J, Ctrl + N, Ctrl + I
Enter previous command (from history): Ctrl + P

Most of these were found by experimentation, I can't guarantee they'll all work, but they should.

^ this for sure. Especially the Ctrl+ movements. Those become way faster and more natural than the arrow keys, if you use them a little bit.

And thanks to all for your suggestions- I was forum-less over the weekends, but I have updated the index now.

[crawforduntz]

This is rich! i used ubuntu once over a year ago, but stopped when one summer end, and now i'm so close to burning windows 7 down...XD

[linuxd1]

This collection is excellent !
Thank you for sharing.

[MG&TL]

Does anyone know of a wiki page this could be added to? Or perhaps a new page entirely, if it doesn't exist.

[cortman]

Does anyone know of a wiki page this could be added to? Or perhaps a new page entirely, if it doesn't exist.

Not sure, might be a good idea...