Taming the Terminal

By Bart Busschots & Allison SheridanTechnology

Taming the Terminal episodes

October 23, 2015 TTT 16 of n - Crossing the Streams
In this installment we continue our exploration of streams, looking at how we can use files as the source and destination for streams, and how we can combine two streams into one.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 15 of n - Plumbing
In this installment we introduce the concept of data streams, looking at the three system streams STDIN, STDOUT $ STDERR, and then look at how we can use the pipe operator connect the output of one command to the input of another.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 14 of n - Aliases & Prompts
In this installment we wrap up our look at the environment by describing command line aliases, and looking at how we can customize the prompt we see when working at the command line.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 13 of n - PATH
In this installment we continue to explore the environment, focusing on the very important environment variable PATH.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 12 of n - The Environment
In this installment we introduce the rather nebulous concept of the Unix/Linux environment, and we look at environment variables and shell variables.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 11 of n - Text Files
In this installment we look at how to read and edit text files from the command line.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 10 of n - man
Unix, Linux and OS X have a built-in manual describing how the various terminal commands work. In this installment we look at how to access this manual, and explain the special language used within.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 9 of n - Controlling Processes
In this installment we learn how to control processes - creating them, and ending them.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 8 of n - Processes
In this installment we explore the concept of Linux/Unix processes, and we introdue the ps command for viewing the running processes.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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October 22, 2015 TTT 7 of n - Managing Files
In this installment we look at file management from the commandline - creating, copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files and folders.
As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
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