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  • Command Line Basics: Intro to Vi/Vim

    Video07.27.2010

    This video introduces you to the Vi (and Vim) editor. Vi is the most common text editor that you will have available to you on *nix systems so it pays to at least learn the basics in case you end up somewhere where that is all you have to use. Vim is also actually a very serviceable editor which many people (mostly hardcore geeks) use as their day to day editor. We'll talk briefly about Vi versus Vim, then open a file, move around, and close the the file. Our next video will dive more into ed...

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  • Command Line Basics: Handy shortcuts

    Video07.09.2010

    This video covers some handy tips for reusing previously run commands and moving around through a line of text in the command line interface. These shortcuts make working on the command line much faster and nicer. Trying to remember all of these is not easy to do until you've used them for a while, so we also have a handy-dandy cheat sheet which you can download and refer to whenever you are in command line ninja mode.

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  • Command Line Basics: grep is your friend

    Video06.22.2010

    This video in the command line series will get you started using the very powerful grep command. This is one of the most used commands, especially if you are working with a lot of text (like code, for instance). Grep will let you search through files to find strings and it's great for tracking down where something is coming from. Grep is a very powerful tool with lots of options, but you'll see you can do a lot even with just the basics. We cover the basic command with a file, how to use it t...

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  • Command Line Basics: Finding files

    Video06.08.2010

    In this video we'll look at two ways of finding files from the command line. We'll use both locate (and its friend updatedb) and find, and talk about the differences between them.

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  • Command Line Basics: SSH and SCP

    Video04.08.2010

    In this video you'll see how simple it is to connect to a remote server using SSH (secure shell). We'll also look at how you can quickly and securely copy files from a remote server using the SCP command (secure copy). These are both invaluable tools when working with servers that you don't have physical access to.

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  • Command Line Basics: Symbolic Links

    Video11.23.2009

    This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server's document root and that is the example we use here.

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  • Command Line Basics: Compression and Archiving

    Video10.28.2009

    This command line video covers the three most common commands for compressing and archiving files, including how to get them back out again. Most commonly you first hit the need for these when you download a file and need to get it uncompressed. We'll cover the following commands:

    • zip
    • unzip
    • gzip
    • gunzip
    • tar
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  • Command Line Basics: Permissions and Ownership

    Video09.16.2009

    In this next video of our command line series, we will look at permissions and ownership of files and folders. It covers the following commands:

    • chmod
    • chown
    • chgrp
    • sudo
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  • Command Line Basics: Copy, Move, Delete

    Video09.08.2009

    The next video covering command line basics, this one covers common commands for dealing with files:

    • cp
    • mv
    • rm

    Fair warning: I say the word "stuff" way too many times in this video. Please just bear with it.

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  • Command Line Basics: Moving around

    Video08.31.2009

    This is the first video in a series that shows basic command line usage for *nix systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X, and on Windows, using applications like Cygwin. This video shows the following commands and spends the most time explaining how to move around your file structure from the command line:

    • pwd
    • ls (and ls -al)
    • less
    • cd
    • man
    • clear
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