Command Line TV

By Christopher League and Christian Lopes

Command Line TV is a video podcast to help you

learn and master the Unix shell. Informally, ‘Unix’ refers to a

family of

operating systems that includes GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeB... more

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How many episodes does Command Line TV have?

The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.

Command Line TV episodes:

October 20, 2015 Episode 12: Find and locate
We use find and locate to dig up lists of files on our system that match
certain criteria. We also look at xargs for executing commands on a selected
set of files.
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October 13, 2015 Episode 11: Filesystems
We investigate the standard filesystem hierarchy and some tools for managing
filesystems.
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September 29, 2015 Episode 10: Shell scripts
We create shell scripts using the hash-bang header, and also look at
permissions, variables, and loops in the shell.
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September 22, 2015 Episode 9: Redirection and substitution
We explore some more shell basics including redirection to and from files, and
command substitution. This feature allows the output of one command to be used
as parameters of another command.
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September 15, 2015 Episode 8: Package managers
In this episode, we explore some of the capabilities of package managers for
installing and updating software on your system. Specifically, we look at the
‘apt’ system on Ubuntu GNU/Linux. On other systems, you might use Yum
(RedHat/Fedora), Pacman (Arch), or Homebrew (Mac). This page shows a comparison
of commands for several Linux packaging systems:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta
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September 08, 2015 Episode 7: ImageMagick
We look at ImageMagick, a powerful suite of command-line tools for doing image
processing. With it, we resize, crop, blur, and do format-conversion on a
collection of image files.
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September 01, 2015 Episode 6: File management part 2
In this episode, we continue looking at managing files and directories using
cp, rm, mkdir, and rmdir. We also show off the tree command and
revisit creating an alias in our .bashrc.
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August 25, 2015 Episode 5: File management part 1
We use mv to move and rename files, and create a shell alias to improve the
safety of one of its sharp edges. We also introduce the .bashrc configuration
script, and mkdir to create directories.
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August 18, 2015 Episode 4: Text manipulation
We learn about text manipulation commands like cut, sort, and uniq. We
build sophisticated pipelines to analyze data, including surveys and web logs.
We also look briefly at invoking simple text editors from the command line,
like nano, gedit, and TextEdit.
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August 10, 2015 Episode 3: Wildcards and grep
In this episode, we use basic wildcards to select files, and then explore how
the ‘grep’ command can search for words or phrases across multiple files. As
always, you can follow along using the same directory structure by downloading
it from https://github.com/commandlinetv/sample-files.
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FAQs about Command Line TV:

How many episodes does Command Line TV have?

The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.