The Command Line Crash Course
This book is a quick super fast course in using the command line. It is intended to be done rapidly in about a day or two, and not meant to teach you advanced shell usage.
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Shut Up And Shell
- The Setup
- Paths, Folders, Directories (pwd)
- What's Your Computer's Name? (hostname)
- Make A Directory (mkdir)
- Change Directory (cd)
- List Directory (ls)
- Remove Directory (rmdir)
- Moving Around (pushd, popd)
- Making Empty Files (Touch, New-Item)
- Copy A File (cp)
- Moving A File (mv)
- View A File (less, MORE)
- Stream A File (cat)
- Removing A File (rm)
- Pipes And Redirection
- Wildcard Matching
- Finding Files (find, DIR -R)
- Looking Inside Files (grep, select-string)
- Getting Command Help (man, HELP)
- Finding Help (apropos, HELP)
- What's In Your Environment (env, echo, Env:)
- Changing Environment Variables (export, Env:)
- Exiting Your Terminal (exit)
- Next Steps
Frequently Asked Questions
- How long does this course take?
- About 1 or 2 days depending on how much time you put in.
- What kind of computer do I need?
- Either a Windows computer with PowerShell, a Mac OSX computer, or a Linux computer.
