The Linux Command Line Bootcamp- Beginner To Power User

The Linux Command Line Bootcamp: Beginner To Power User, available at $99.99, has an average rating of 4.77, with 168 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 7299 reviews, and has 43040 subscribers.

You will learn about Master the Command Line and Dozens of Commands! Stop Relying On The Limited Graphical User Interface Write Your Own Commands From Scratch Automate Tasks and Schedule Jobs Using Cron Control Your Computer Completely From The Command Line! Master The Quirks Of File Permissions Learn Powerful Keyboard Shortcuts To Improve Your Efficiency Construct Powerful Command Pipelines This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone interested in becoming a command line power user! or Computer users who want complete control over their machine or Anyone interested in web development, data science, or a career that involves code! or Students with some prior command line experience who want to gain complete mastery It is particularly useful for Anyone interested in becoming a command line power user! or Computer users who want complete control over their machine or Anyone interested in web development, data science, or a career that involves code! or Students with some prior command line experience who want to gain complete mastery.

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Summary

Title: The Linux Command Line Bootcamp: Beginner To Power User

Price: $99.99

Average Rating: 4.77

Number of Lectures: 168

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 167

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 171

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 170

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Master the Command Line and Dozens of Commands!

Stop Relying On The Limited Graphical User Interface

Write Your Own Commands From Scratch

Automate Tasks and Schedule Jobs Using Cron

Control Your Computer Completely From The Command Line!

Master The Quirks Of File Permissions

Learn Powerful Keyboard Shortcuts To Improve Your Efficiency

Construct Powerful Command Pipelines

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in becoming a command line power user!

Computer users who want complete control over their machine

Anyone interested in web development, data science, or a career that involves code!

Students with some prior command line experience who want to gain complete mastery

Target Audiences

Anyone interested in becoming a command line power user!

Computer users who want complete control over their machine

Anyone interested in web development, data science, or a career that involves code!

Students with some prior command line experience who want to gain complete mastery

Welcome to The Linux Command Line Bootcamp, a brand new course that aims to turn you into a command line power user! This course will teach you dozens and dozens of powerful commands (see the long list at the bottom), but more importantly it gives you the tools the continue to learn new commands and take full control of your machine. The skills you learn in this course will make you a stronger web developer, data scientist, machine learning engineer, game dev, or plain old computer user!  You will feel POWERFUL!!

Hi there, my name is Colt Steele. I’ve spent years leading in-person software engineering bootcamps and have helped thousands of students change careers.  Online I’ve taught over a million students and have hundreds of thousands of 5 star ratings and reviews.

This is an interactive course full of exercises and fun challenges that force you to practice the skills you are learning. You’ll encounter some of the same assignments and projects that my in-person bootcamp students experience.  Learning command after command can be a dreadfully boring experience, but I’ve tried my best to make this course as exciting and interesting as possible 馃檪   You may roll your eyes at my jokes, but you won’t be bored!

============Curriculum: The Short Version============

This course covers a TON.  Here’s a short summary of the key points.  Scroll down for a more in-depth explanation.

Learn dozens and dozens of powerful commands (see the long list below)

Understand the big picture: how ALL commands fit together

Build complex data pipelines by stringing multiple commands together

Master command-line navigation and Linux folder structure

Create, delete, move, copy, and renamefiles and folders

Decipher and manipulate Unix file permissions

Use powerful searching commands like find, locate, and grep

Master redirectionof standard input, standard output, and standard error

Write your own custom commands from scratch!

Customize the shell: write your own helpful aliases, tweak the prompt, etc.

Master Bash expansions and substitutions

Automate tedious tasks using cron and cronjobs

Edit files directly from the command-line using nano

Master keyboard shortcuts to increase your command-line efficiency

============Curriculum: The Long Version============

The course starts with a deep dive into confusing technical terms like terminal, shell, kernel, Unix, Unix-Like, GNU,  Linux, and Bash. It’s important to understand the context and the WHY’s around the command line and its history that still impacts our machines today.

Then we shift our focus to the general patterns and structure that all commands follow including options and arguments. This blueprint we define will inform every single other topic we cover throughout the rest of the course. You’ll also learn HOW to learn more about specific commands using the man, help, which, and type commands.

Next, we cover the super-important Linux folder structure and learn essential commands for navigating our machinesincluding ls, pwd, and cd. You’ll be an expert navigator in no time!

From there we learn to create new files and foldersright from the command line using the commands touch, mkdir, and file. Next, we dive deep into a special text-editor built right into the command line called Nano. You’ll learn to open and edit files using Nano, master various Nano shortcuts, and even learn how to configure nano’s global settings.

The next section covers the powerful commands rm, mv, and cp. You’ll learn how to remove individual files and entire directories, move and rename files, and copy files and folders right from the command line.  These are some of the most useful commands you can know!

Then we take a quick break to focus on useful keyboard shortcuts you can use to improve your terminal efficiency, before diving into the history command and history expansion.

The next section covers tons of commands that have to do with manipulating file contents, including less, cat, tac, rev, head, tail, wc, and sort. Then we cover the three standard streams: standard input, standard output, and standard error. You’ll learn to redirect all three streams and take full control over your data.

Next we move to my favorite topic: piping! In this section you’ll learn how to construct complex and powerful pipelines by stringing together multiple individual commands. You’ll also learn about the tr command and the tee command along the way.

From there we learn to “speak” the language of the shell using Expansion and Substitution. You’ll learn the ins and outs of pathname expansionusing wildcard characters, tilde expansion, and the super powerful curly brace expansion. We also cover arithmetic expansion, command substitution, and single and double quoting.

Next up we learn about two commands that help us find files on our machine: locateand find. We pay special attention to the find command and its many fancy options and use-cases. You’ll learn how to find files by name, size, timestamps, and more. You’ll also learn how to bulk-edit files using find’s exec optionand the xargs command.

We then shift our focus to the grep command. You’ll learn how to use grep to recursively search the contents of files and match complex files using regular expressions.

Next, we spend some time discussing the details of file permissions. You’ll learn how to read file attributes and understand read, write, and execute permissions. In the next section, we learn how to alter permissions using commands including chmod, chown, sudo, and su.

In the next section, we learn how to customize our shell experience. You’ll learn to write your own custom aliases, work with shell variables, and even create your own fancy prompt. Then we learn how to create our own complex commands from scratch and the basics of bash scripting! By the end you’ll be writing and running your own programs.

Finally, we learn about the mysterious cron daemon. You’ll learn the odd-looking cron syntax to set up your own automated and scheduled cronjobs.

============THE END============

Whether you have some experience with basic commands or you’re a complete beginner, this course will help take your skills to the next level.  Learning the command-line is one of the rare skills that transcends the typical divisions between web development, data science, machine learning, or any other tech disciplines. If you work with a computer daily, you will benefit from mastering the command-line.  The commands you learn in the course will change the way you interact with your machine, giving you all new workflows and strategies and POWER over your computer!  More importantly, you’ll leave this course prepared to conquer ALL the commands that are waiting for you out in the real world and on the job.   

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Here’s an incomplete list of the commands covered in the course:

date

cal

ncal

echo

man

help

which

type

ls

cd

pwd

touch

mkdir

nano

rm

rmdir

mv

cp

cat

less

tac

rev

head tail

wc

sort

tr

tee

locate

du

find

grep

xargs

chmod

sudo

su

chown

addgroup

adduser

export

source

crontab

tar

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: The Super Quick Course Orientation Stuff

Lecture 1: Welcome To The Course!

Lecture 2: Join The Community!

Lecture 3: Why Learn The Command Line

Lecture 4: Finding The Slides & Exercises

Lecture 5: One Small Piece Of Advice

Chapter 2: Introduction

Lecture 1: The World Of Operating Systems

Lecture 2: What Are Unix and Unix-Like?

Lecture 3: Exploring The Original Unix Manual

Lecture 4: Linux, GNU, Kernels, Oh My!

Lecture 5: Explaining Terminals, Shells, & Bash

Lecture 6: Installation & Setup!

Chapter 3: Command Basics

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: Opening Up The Terminal

Lecture 3: Understanding The Prompt

Lecture 4: IMPORTANT NOTE: About the ncal Command

Lecture 5: Our First Commands!

Lecture 6: Using Arrow Keys In The Terminal

Lecture 7: Command Line Arguments

Lecture 8: Providing Options To Commands

Lecture 9: Combining Multiple Options

Lecture 10: Using Long-Form Options

Lecture 11: Options That Require Parameters

Chapter 4: Getting Help

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: Introducing The Manual

Lecture 3: Navigating & Searching A Man Page

Lecture 4: Parsing Man Page Synopses

Lecture 5: The 7 Manual Sections & Searching

Lecture 6: The Type & Which Commands

Lecture 7: Using The Help Command

Lecture 8: Getting Help EXERCISE

Chapter 5: Navigation

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: The Root Directory

Lecture 3: The Home Directory

Lecture 4: The pwd Command

Lecture 5: Using ls

Lecture 6: Helpful options for ls

Lecture 7: Changing Directories With cd

Lecture 8: Relative Vs. Absolute Paths

Lecture 9: Overview Of Other Folders

Lecture 10: Navigation EXERCISE

Chapter 6: Creating Files & Folders

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: Creating Files With touch

Lecture 3: Why Touch is Called Touch

Lecture 4: Exploring File Types, Extensions, & the file command

Lecture 5: File Names: Good, Bad, & Ugly

Lecture 6: Creating Directories With mkdir

Lecture 7: Creating Things EXERCISE

Chapter 7: Nano

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: Introducing Nano

Lecture 3: The Basics of Nano

Lecture 4: Creating File With Nano

Lecture 5: Mastering Nano Shortcuts

Lecture 6: Searching & Replacing in Nano

Lecture 7: Configuring Nano & Spellchecking

Lecture 8: Nano Exercise

Chapter 8: Deleting, Copying, & Moving

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: Deleting Files With rm

Lecture 3: Deleting Folders With -d & -r

Lecture 4: Moving Files With mv

Lecture 5: Moving Folders with mv

Lecture 6: Renaming With mv

Lecture 7: Copying with cp

Lecture 8: Deleting, Copying, & Moving EXERCISE

Chapter 9: Shortcuts & History

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: Clearing & Jumping Lines

Lecture 3: Jumping Characters & Words

Lecture 4: Swapping Characters & Words

Lecture 5: Killing Lines, Words, & More

Lecture 6: Yanking From The Kill-Ring

Lecture 7: History Command & History Expansion

Chapter 10: Working With Files

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: The Cat Command

Lecture 3: Working With Less

Lecture 4: Tac & Rev

Lecture 5: Head & Tail

Lecture 6: The wc Command

Lecture 7: The Sort Command

Lecture 8: Advanced Sorting By Field

Lecture 9: Working With Files EXERCISE

Chapter 11: Redirection

Lecture 1: What Actually Matters In This Section

Lecture 2: Introducing The Standard Streams

Lecture 3: Redirecting Standard Output

Lecture 4: Appending Standard Output

Lecture 5: Redirecting Standard Input

Lecture 6: Redirecting StdIn & StdOut Together

Lecture 7: Redirecting Standard Error

Instructors

Colt Steele
Developer and Bootcamp Instructor

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 20 votes

2 stars: 25 votes

3 stars: 276 votes

4 stars: 1803 votes

5 stars: 5175 votes

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