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(Episode 1) Use cd and ls to explore directory tree
(Episode 2) Short pipelines using cat, more, less, head, tail
(Episode 3) Searching with grep
(Episode 3) Standard wildcards
(Episode 4) Text manipulation: cut, sort, uniq, grep
(Episode 5) Shell aliases
(Episode 5,6) Manipulating files: cp, mv, rm
(Episode 7) ImageMagick
(Episode 8) Installing software from package manager
(Episode 9) Redirection
(Episode 10) Shell scripts, #! notation, for loops
(Episode 10) Environment variables
(Episode 10) Permissions and chmod
(Episode 11) Filesystem management: mount, umount, mkfs
(Episode 11) The filesystem hierarchy (difference between /usr, /etc, /dev)
(Episode 12) find command, locate, and xargs
Job control: fg, bg, jobs, &
chgrp, usermod, umask (revisit permissions)
Text transformation with sed
Count stuff with wc
Full capabilities of ‘readline’ for editing, history, search
Links and symbolic links (ln -s)
Transferring files: scp, rsync
tar and backup tools
Web stuff: curl, wget
ffmpeg and ffprobe for video stuff
More detail on wildcards and quoting rules
Other shells: zsh, tcsh, fish
Colors, custom prompts, other bells & whistles
Crypto: gpg, openssl
Editors: vi, emacs
Installing Linux – native and VM
Different distributions of Linux, + GNU vs BSD
Software freedom
Danger of copy/pasting from a web page: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/622393089676607489?s=09