A Guide to the Linux Command Line Interface for Students
Joshua Glatt
Copyright © 2008, 2009 Joshua Glatt
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. What is this guide for?
- 2. Who would want to read this guide?
- 3. Who would not want to read this guide?
- 4. What is the reader expected to know?
- 5. What does the reader need?
- 6. What does this guide cover?
- 7. What does this guide not cover?
- 8. Other information about this guide
- 9. Conventions used in this guide
- 10. Structure of this guide
- 11. Suggestions for using this guide
- 1. Linux and its user interfaces
- 1.1. User interfaces in Linux: graphical and command line
- 1.2. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Linux
- 1.3. Accessing the Linux CLI through a GUI's terminal window
- 1.4. Shells, the shell prompt, and your home directory
- 1.5. Key differences between Windows/Mac OS X and Linux
- 1.6. Understanding the tables of commands and options
- 2. Built-in help system
- 3. Basic shell commands and related utilities
- 4. Secure file transfer
- 5. Text editors
- 6. Programming tools
- 7. Version control
- A. Further reading
- B. Graphical alternatives
List of Tables
- 2.1. Commands for the built-in help system
- 3.1. Commands for navigating the file system
- 3.2. Common symbols from the file system
- 3.3. Commands for manipulating the file system
- 3.4. Commands for handling compressed files (tarballs)
- 3.5. Standard streams
- 3.6. I/O redirection operators
- 3.7. Commands for working with text streams
- 3.8. Commands for adjusting file permissions
- 3.9. Commands for terminating a process
- 4.1. SSH file transfer (SFTP) commands
- 5.1. The Arrow Keys in Vim
- 5.2. Basic Vim commands, Part 1
- 5.3. Basic Vim commands, Part 2
- 5.4. Moving through the buffer in Vim
- 5.5. Moving through screens and lines in Vim
- 5.6. Vim actions
- 5.7. Special text manipulation commands in Vim
- 5.8. Searching and substituting in Vim
- 5.9. Ways to enter insert mode in Vim
- 5.10. Other modes in Vim
- 5.11. Basic Emacs commands
- 5.12. Moving the cursor in Emacs
- 5.13. Manipulating text in Emacs
- 5.14. Additional Emacs commands
- 6.1. Commonly used GCC flags
- 6.2. Commonly used GDB commands, Part 1
- 6.3. Commonly used GDB commands, Part 2
- 6.4. Selected commands from GNU Binary Utilities (binutils)
List of Examples
- 1.1. How to read a table entry
- 3.1. Using cd
- 3.2. Using du
- 3.3. Using find
- 3.4. Using ls
- 3.5. Using ln
- 3.6. Using mv
- 3.7. Using rm
- 3.8. Using cat with pipes
- 3.9. Using /dev/null
- 3.10. Using diff
- 3.11. Using echo
- 3.12. Using xargs
- 3.13. Using ps and kill
- 4.1. Using SSH file transfer (SFTP)
- 6.1. Using GCC
- 6.2. Using objdump