Linux Shell Course for Beginners

This course is teaches the basics of using the linux shell, and is intended as a first course in using the terminal.

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This course is teaches the basics of using the linux shell, and is intended as a first course in using the terminal. In just under an hour, you’ll learn how to navigate the directory structure, show the contents of directories, how to understand and work with file permissions, how to copy, move, and remove files and directories, and more.

Topics include:

  • How to open the linux terminal
  • All about directories
  • Listing a directory’s contents
  • Understanding file permissions
  • Changing permissions
  • How to make and remove directories
  • Using the wildcard characters * and ?
  • Copying, moving, and removing files.
  • Removing non-empty directories
  • Using redirection and piping.

This is the first course in a new series of courses on the linux shell. Upcoming courses will explore various aspects of the shell, such as scripting, using utilities such as grep and sed, C and Perl programming in linux, and the file structure.

I hope you join me as we explore linux together.


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EDUmobile Academy
EDUmobile Academy

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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
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