[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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Cli Manual Structure (feel free to edit)
- Introduction
- First steps
- Basic commands
- Choosing a text editor
- nano
- emacs
- vim
- Shells
- Configuring your environment
- Configuring a shell prompt
- Using variables
- building aliases
- relevant dot files
- Useful Parameters and variables
- Shell history
- Getting help (man/info pages)
- searching man pages
- help files
- web sources
- Locating commands
- which
- whereis
- apropos
- Basic directory navigation
- Working with directories (relative vs absolute pathnames, brace/tilde expansion,
- Working with files (file types, file management, comparing files)directory structure)
- Compressing and archiving files
- tar
- gz
- bz2
- xz
- zip
- rar
- User/Group permissions
- Users and groups
- Permissions and ownership
- Standard Input and Output / Redirection
- sorting output and pipes
- Job control
- Locating content
- Finding files
- Finding text in files
- Text processing tools
- Common keybindings
- Searching and replacing
- Managing filesystems (checking/creating/mounting/fstab)
- Monitoring available resources (disk space/ memory / processes)
- Getting information / troubleshooting network
- Automating and scheduling tasks
- System Maintenance
- Writing and executing shell scripts
- Shell script arguments
- Tests and Conditional Statements
- Flow control (eg. running a command on a number of files)
- Development tools
- Common tasks
- downloading torrents
- sending and receiving emails
- listening to music
- tagging your music
- Getting things done
- reading news
- Talking on irc channels
- burning a cd
- CLI glossary
