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Linux Terminals

Master the Linux command line through hands-on practice with essential terminal commands and techniques used by professional developers. Learn file system navigation, file manipulation, text searching, input/output redirection, and user permissions in a real Linux environment. Develop productivity skills with command history, tab completion, and terminal-based text editors like Nano and Vim. Understand environment variables, shell configuration, and PATH management for customizing your development environment.

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Course Chapters

1

Introduction

Get started with Linux terminal fundamentals and understand the difference between command-line interfaces and graphical user interfaces. Learn about terminals versus shells, set up your development environment with WSL if needed, and clone the starter repository to begin your hands-on terminal training.

5 lessons
2

Navigation

Master essential Linux navigation commands to efficiently move through the file system and locate files and directories. Learn pwd, ls, and cd commands, understand parent directories and the home directory shortcut, and distinguish between absolute and relative paths for precise file system navigation.

7 lessons
3

Terminal Productivity

Boost your command-line efficiency with time-saving productivity techniques used by professional developers. Master tab completion, command history navigation, reverse search, and screen clearing to work faster and more effectively in the terminal environment.

5 lessons
4

Working with Files

Learn essential file system operations for creating, reading, copying, moving, and deleting files and directories from the command line. Master commands like cat, head, tail, mkdir, cp, mv, and rm, plus understand wildcards and glob patterns for efficient batch file operations.

9 lessons
5

Searching and Finding

Master powerful search tools to quickly locate files and search through file contents from the command line. Learn grep for searching text within files with various flags, use find to locate files by name and properties, and discover command locations with which and whereis.

4 lessons
6

Input / Output & Redirection

Understand how Linux handles input and output streams, and learn to redirect data between commands, files, and the terminal. Explore standard output (stdout), standard error (stderr), standard input (stdin), and master pipes for chaining commands together to build powerful command-line workflows.

5 lessons
7

Users and Permissions

Learn Linux file permissions and user management to control access to files and directories securely. Understand user and group concepts, read and modify permissions with chmod using both numeric and symbolic notation, change file ownership with chown, and work with sudo for administrative tasks.

10 lessons
8

Terminal Based Editors

Learn the basics of terminal-based text editors which are essential for editing files directly from the command line without a graphical interface. Learn when and why to use terminal editors, create files with touch, and gain practical skills with both Nano and Vim.

7 lessons
9

Environment and Configuration

Customize your shell environment and understand how Linux manages system-wide and user-specific configurations. Learn to work with environment variables, modify the PATH variable, create command aliases, understand shell configuration files, and source configurations to apply changes without restarting your terminal.

8 lessons