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Symbolic Links & Hard Links

Navigation Commands

8 Lessons

Unpack the core of effective file system navigation with Bash commands and path management.

Pathnames in Bash

Check the Current Directory in Bash

Navigate between Directories

Display Files in a Directory

Create a Directory in Bash

Remove a Directory in Bash

Open/Display Content of a File

File Manipulation Commands

7 Lessons

Examine essential file manipulation commands in Bash, covering creation, deletion, viewing, moving, copying, and zipping.

Create a File in Bash

Remove a File in Bash

Move Files in a Directory

Copying Files in Bash

Zipping a File in Bash

Set/Remove Permissions in Bash

Permission Commands

3 Lessons

Break down complex ideas on file and directory permissions and the chmod command.

What are Permissions?

Sorting File Contents in Order

Filtering & Searching Commands

7 Lessons

Dig into advanced Bash commands for locating, sorting, filtering, and searching text efficiently.

Searching in Bash

Viewing Beginning and Ending Contents of Files

Filtering Repeated Lines Out

Regular Expressions (Regex)

GREP vs. EGREP vs. FGREP

Jobs: How Do They Differ from Processes

System & Process Commands

5 Lessons

Follow the process of managing processes, jobs, root access, and terminating processes in Bash.

Processes

Getting Root Privileges

Killing a Process

Variables and their Types

Variables and Environment

7 Lessons

Practice using Bash for managing variables, software packages, and Git efficiently.

Variable Assignment & Expansion

Terminal is fun (Really)

Caution: Cool Stuff Ahead!

The Real Power of Bash

How to Use Git with Bash

Misc. Commands' Cheatsheet

An Overview of Commands

2 Lessons

Learn how to use essential Bash commands and assess your knowledge with a final quiz.

Project

Write a Shell in C

This project uses C to build a shell, implementing basic commands from scratch using standard libraries and system calls.

intermediate

1 hour 30 mins

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