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A Crash Course in bash

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------Ever heard of bash?? Wonder what it is?? Wonder how to use it??
Well here you have a little crash course!!
I will not tell you much history about bash in this little crash course.
But if you wonder the name stands for Bourne-Again SHell.
Enough talk... Lets start!
As i'l guess you already know bash have something to do with Linux.
Bash is one of many command interfaces that is between the Linux kernel and you
(user) when you type in commands on your Linux shell!
Bash is the standard shell when you install Linux but if you have something
other you can just type 'bash' and hopefully (if bash is installed) you will
have the bash shell.
Bash is the most common used shell and its very powerfull for whatever you will
need! It is some exeptions but I will not talk about them here.
Now you may wonder some basic bash commands to get you starting!
Notes that with all this commands you can type --help or man command to get help
,
like this 'ls --help' or 'man ls'.
Also note that all these commands are actually programs soo if you miss one or t
wo
of them dont panic.. ;)
Command:

Description:

Example:

ls
cd
r/
tree

Used to list directory/files

Moving around in the directories

ls
cd folde

Nice tree of files/folder

tree

chmod
Setting file/folder permission
0 secret_source.c
chown
Setting owner of files/folder
0r note.txt
chgrp
Setting group of files/folder
ers note.txt

chmod 70

uptime
ps
uname
history
whereis

uptime
ps aux
uname -a
history
whereis

Shows you uptime and some stats

Shows you prosesses running
What system are you running? Try with -a to!
Shows what you typed last
Shows you what is executed when you type an command

chown xe
chgrp us

perl
w
Shows you whois loged in to that box
who
Almost same but with less output
users
Shows you only the usernames loged in
talk
Talk live with another user
r
ytalk
Improved talk!
0r
whois
Wonder who owns an domain?
talavista.net
finger
Finds out information about an user
e0r
ssh
An ssh client
n.myshellhost.org
telnet
An telnet client
0.0.0.1

w
who
users
talk xe0

cp
Copying
tant.txt backup_importans.txt
mv
Moving
mation.txt old_information.txt
rm
Removing
txt

cp impor

passwd
clear

Changing your password

Simply clearing the screen

passwd
clear

pico
dme.txt
vi
e.txt
vim
me.txt

Text editor

pico rea

Antoher text editor

vi readm

Improved vi

vim read

ytalk xe
whois as
finger x
ssh logi
telnet 1

mv infor
rm info.

Well.. That was some of the basic commands you can use. Here is some more
advanced stuff you can do:
Command:

Information:

[TAB]

[TAB] is possible the button I use most when im doing something

in bash!! [TAB] is an autocomplete button. Example, if you'r to
lazy (like me ;p) and you want to use the 'history' button you
just havto type 'his[TAB]' and it autocomplete it for you! Is'nt
that great?? Also if you only remember the first one letter in
that command you can type 'h[TAB]' and you will get an list of
every commands starting on the letter "h".
Finally it also autocompletes folders and file names.

[Arrows]

Use the up arrow and you will get the last typed command,
the down arrow goes down on the command list after you
pressed up. And finally Left & Right move where you gonna
write like any other text editors.

This character is called pipe! This command is always used after

an other command. I think the command I use most with this is 'g

rep'.
You can think of 'grep' as grabbing something! Its very usefull,
here

are some examples, 'ps aux|grep nobody' this shows all prossess
that is
running under nobody! What it do is grabbing all the lines with
the
words nobody in and send that to the screen.
!

When you run the 'history' command you will get alot of
commands with some numbers to the right. If you dont want
to type an command that is in the history again you can
just type !123 where 123 is the command number in the
history. The !123 part is just as if you typed the command.
In other words if you typed 'whereis histor' and that gets
the number 123. And you figured you forgot an "y" in history
you can type '!123y' to get the last character.
Note that this command is only usefull if
the command is long back in the history! (Read about [Arrows]
if you wonder why).

Well... Thats all for now. Im not writing so much this time becouse im unsure
if there is many that is relly interested in this..
If i see there is lot of interest in this topic i'l come back with a lot more!!
;]
Therefor I also think that its important that you vote.
If you is one of those people that wonder if you gonna get you an Linux shell (b
ash)
I will tell you that I have never had more fun with simple text!! ;>
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