Networking Laboratory (S2, 2014)

Linux Command Line

Handouts

• Lab Manual: chapter 2
• Linux Reference Card: View, Source
• Introduction to Linux Command Line Interface: View, Print
• Linux File Permissions: View, Print
• stdin, stdout and stderr: View, Print
• Example of Bash scripts to download CSS322 handwritten notes and ITS335 lecture slides. See comments in the scripts for more info.

Links

• Ubuntu. Download and for community guides on Ubuntu. You can also find many other Linux (and BSD) distrubtions at DistroWatch.
• Bash Shell Commands, an alphabetic list of Bash shell commands
• GNU Bash Reference Manual, the official reference manual for Bash, the shell commonly used in Linux command line.
• lntroduction to the Command Line, a free book from FSF that introduces the Linux command line.
• Linux Filesystem Hierarchy. Wikipedia page describing the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which lists the purpose and structure of directories, e.g. /etc, /usr, /boot.

Videos

• Basic Linux permissions part 1: Introduction of main concepts. Explanation of permissions in Linux, such as meaning of -rwxr--r-- in the output of ls command.
• Basic Linux permissions part 2: Examples. Examples demonstrating permissions, showing how different uses can/cannot access files.
• Basic Linux Permissions part 3: Switching Users and sudo. Switching users and using sudo to execute a command as superuser. Commands: su, sudo
• Basic Linux Permissions part 4: Changing permissions and owners. Changing permissions, changing user and group owners of files and directories. Commands: chmod, chown, chgrp

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