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Introduction
Why Take This Course?
Accessing the Command-Line Interface
Getting Your Bearings
Creating and Reading Files
Redirecting Streams of Text
Creating Directories
Going Home
Using Autocompletion
Elevating Privileges
Installing Additional Programs with a Package Manager
Downloading Files
Useful Shortcuts and Commands
Quiz 1
Creating an Ubuntu Virtual Machine with VirtualBox
Creating a New Virtual Machine
Configuring a Network
Installing the Guest Operating System
Working with Snapshots
Installing Software with the Package Manager
Improving Performance by Installing Guest Additions
Quiz 2
Navigating the Filesystem
Listing Files and Directories
Recursive File Listings
Navigating Files and Folders
Relative and Absolute Paths
Dot and Double Dots
Using pushd and popd to Manage a Stack of Directories
Finding Files
Identifying Available Disk Space
Quiz 3
Working with Files and Directories
Creating Files
Creating Files with Content
Writing Multiple Lines to a File
Combining Files
Reading the Beginning and End of a File
Creating Directories
Copying Files
Copying Directories
Moving and Renaming Files and Directories
Deleting Files and Directories
Managing File and Directory Permissions
Changing Ownership
Working with Links
Getting More Information About Filesystem Objects
Quiz 4
Streams Of Text
Introduction
Redirecting Input and Output with File Descriptors
Creating Pipelines of Data
Splitting Streams with tee
Handling Standard Error Streams
Filtering with grep
Removing Characters from Output with cut
Sorting Output
Editing Streams with sed
Saving Changes
Editing Specific Lines
Operating on Lines by Number
Advanced Processing with awk
Using xargs
Quiz 5
The Shell and Environment
Exploring Environment and Shell Variables
Using Variables
Locating Executables with PATH
Setting Our Own Variables
Supplying Environment Variables to Specific Programs
Customizing a Shell Session
Controlling the History and Setting the Shell Editor
Modifying the PATH
Modifying a Prompt
Creating Shortcuts with Aliases and Functions
Creating Keyboard Shortcuts
Quiz 6
Running and Managing Programs
Running Multiline Commands
Executing a Series of Commands
Running Commands in Subshells
Timing Program Execution
Recording Program Interaction
Reusing Previous Commands and Arguments
Extracting Data with Modifiers
Correcting Mistakes and Altering Previous Commands
Managing Processes and Jobs
Running and Managing Jobs
Terminating Processes
Command Substitution
Keeping Commands Running with GNU Screen
Quiz 7
Networking Tools
Getting Our Connection Information
Finding Information about Domain Names
Testing Network Connectivity
Making Web Requests with cURL
Downloading Files
Working with Web APIs
Using Secure Shell to Connect to Remote Machines
Transferring Files with scp
Transferring and Synchronizing Files with rsync
Exploring Network Connections and Determining Open Ports
Making Web Requests with NetCat
Serving Files with NetCat
Quiz 8
Automation
Introduction
Automating Tasks with make
Writing Bash Scripts
Automating File and Directory Creation
Making an Interactive Script
Automating Our Workstation Setup
Quiz 9
Additional Programs
Managing Files with ranger
Managing Documents with pandoc
Running Tasks When Files Change
Using direnv to Manage Environment Variables
Monitor and Manage Resources with htop
Autocompleting Files, Directories, Processes, and More with fzf
Serving up a Directory with Python
Viewing Colored Source Code with Pygments
Keeping a Log with jrnl
Manipulating JSON with jq
Inspecting Requests with HTTPie
Testing Performance with Siege
Quiz 10
Conclusion
What's Next?
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Harnessing the Power of the Command-Line Interface
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