Cliff Pankonien on 16 Aug 2007 14:02:23 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Beginner's Guide to Linux?


how about ps aux | grep whatever?

Gabriel Farrell wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 03:34:15PM -0400, Brent Saner wrote:
i'm putting together some documentation and i was wondering if you could
share with me some things you wish someone taught you about linux when you
were a fresh n00b.

so far, i have:

the root account (warnings on being root, etc.)
permissions
device naming conventions in linux
navigating the CLI (intro to things like cd, ls, cp, mv, rm(dir), cat, >,

It's hard for me to remember how uncomfortable with the concept I must have been when I first used the CLI. At the very beginner's level, someone I know who has taught intro unix classes had a lot of success when she told her students, "The command line is like instant messaging your computer." This analogy really helped some people to dive right in.

touch, opening files in nano for editing, etc.)

and after that i'm stuck. any other ideas?

--
Brent Saner
215.264.0112(cell)
215.362.7696(residence)

http://www.thenotebookarmy.org

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