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This is a dedicated series for folks who are interested to get the basics of linux as well as move to advance stage. Don't worry we will start from scratch and gradually move to advance.
What is Linux? Linux is a kernel upon which many operating systems, such as Ubuntu and Arch Linux, are built. Linux is open-source which means you can read the code associated with the kernel. The Linux kernel was released in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. ...
What to Know Major distribution differentiators include architecture support, the init system, the default package manager, and the user interface. For new Linux users with modern hardware, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, and Elementary OS are good places...
As a developer, you’ll need to be comfortable navigating around the Linux file system. After opening up a terminal multiplexer like Terminator, you’ll be dropped into the file system. You can use the pwd (Print Working Directory) command to see where...
The cat or concatenate command writes files to the standard output (the text you see on your screen in your terminal). meanii ✓ cat hello.txt cat is often the easiest way to quickly inspect the contents of a file. It becomes especially powerful when ...
You’ve dropped inside a directory with dozens of sub-directories. You know there’s a file inside this directory that you need, but you aren’t sure where it is. find can help! meanii ✓ find . -name CS101 The ‘find’ command lets you walk a file hierarc...
Every file and directory in the Linux file system has permissions and an owner. Permissions are who is allowed to do what with the file. To see the permissions on a file, use the command ls -l <filename>. You’ll see something like this in the left-mo...
