Playing Command Line Basics: Moving around

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Very useful!

On August 31st, 2009 Tom Geller (not verified) said:

This will let many more non-technologists use Drupal -- I'm sort of amazed that nobody's done it before. Brava!

Very Helpful

On August 31st, 2009 Brian Morris (not verified) said:

I have safely been staying in front of a GUI for years but recently decided to dig into the gritty world of the command line. Thanks Addi for taking the time to put this together.

OMG, I'm in love

On August 31st, 2009 Jen Simmons (not verified) said:

Thank you so much for this. As a designer who now develops most of the sites I do in Drupal (without the budget to keep a dev team at my fingertips 24-7), I unfortunately find myself desperately needing to know command line, CVS/SVN, and other server admin skills in unexpected moments, usually with a crisis at hand.

When I spend time mastering new technology, I focus on CSS3, HTML5, new video CODECs and the like. Somehow learning UNIX and PHP never rises to the top as The Most Important. Until the next server / 500 error / WSOD crisis.

This is a perfect way for us non-dev-head-types to learn what we need to know to get around Drupal better.

Thanks!

don't forget about andLinux for windows

On August 31st, 2009 mikeytown2 (not verified) said:

This is way better then cygwin or a typical VM
http://www.andlinux.org/

Here's a basic install guide
http://drupal.org/node/505974

maybe you can do one on

On September 2nd, 2009 Alfred Nutile (not verified) said:

Setting up a local lamp installation on a mac?
Thanks for all the podcasts!

MAMP

On September 4th, 2009 addi said:

I actually do have a video on using MAMP on Mac. I prefer that to monkeying with building up a full stack.

Great Intro to the Comman Line

On September 7th, 2009 Rizwan Javaid (not verified) said:

Addison,
Thanks for this great tutorial. I have always been apprehensive of using the command line. You video makes it less intimidating.

what about rm and mv

On September 7th, 2009 Drupal Theme Garden (not verified) said:

what about rm and mv (remove, and move) ???

coming soon

On September 7th, 2009 addi said:

This will be a whole series of videos. rm and mv are both slated to be in the next video, along with mkdir and cp. It will also do chmod and chown if they fit timewise.

Great series

On September 21st, 2009 Chris Jobling (not verified) said:

Addy

Great series of videos. I run an annual "mini course" on Unix as part of a module on Internet Technology here at Swansea University (in which we also install Drupal) and I'll be pointing my students at these screencasts!

Daaaag CLI! Bust it out the C-64 too while your at it!

On September 22nd, 2009 John (not verified) said:

LOAD "Drupal", 8,1

home directory

On November 4th, 2009 Shari (not verified) said:

Hi Addi, your video's have allowed me to play around a bit, but I'm a bit confused (ha!) in the installation video you installed to c, in this video your home is user/addi which is much more useful then /home/name. How do you get your home to be where your actual files are?
Thanks!

I have safely been staying

On November 14th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) said:

I have safely been staying in front of a GUI for years but recently decided to dig into the gritty world of the command line. Thanks Addi for taking the time to put this together.

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On November 16th, 2009 Gavin Doolan (not verified) said:

Thanks for this, as someone who has used DOS extensively before Windows 95 and someone who has a very simple understanding of Unix this helped alot and I've recently started using SSH over FTP for its speed and flexibility so this has helped immensely thanks!