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Command Line Basics: Moving around
August 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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Very useful!
This will let many more non-technologists use Drupal -- I'm sort of amazed that nobody's done it before. Brava!
Very Helpful
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
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
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
Setting up a local lamp installation on a mac?
Thanks for all the podcasts!
MAMP
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
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
what about rm and mv (remove, and move) ???
coming soon
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
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!
LOAD "Drupal", 8,1
home directory
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
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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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!