Linux.......
hello and welcome to the techisagar
in today's.. I will give you guys
a quick introduction to Linux and
I'm gonna show you how to use some
very useful introductory Linux
commands using a terminal window
now just to be clear this is a course
for beginners who want to learn how to
use command on a Linux terminal now
for those of you guys who are not
familiar with Linux at all let's give
you a quick perspective Linux is
not Unix UNIX was created by a bunch
of AT&T employees in 1969 Linux was
written by a name AGGA by a guy named
Linus travolt who created the entire
thing by himself and released it
around 1991 now Linux is a powerful
operating system but it is especially
designed for server systems and 90% of
the world's fastest computers like
supercomputers run on some form of
Linux and this is because a rock-solid
system okay so that was a quick history
on Linux that was just to give you a
perspective now Linux and UNIX are
different just remember that now one
more thing before we dive in Linux
comes in many different varieties
which are called distros or
distributions in this tutorial we
will Use the popular Ubuntu
distribution of Linux but there are
others out there as well such as
Fedora mint and Debian and more even
Android is a Linux distribution so the
basic commands we
will rerun it we will be running and
learning today can be generally used
on almost all different Linux
distributions alright so let me go
ahead and launch Linux and I just
wanna let you know I'm running Linux
on my Windows so what you do is you
install VirtualBox which is right here
so let me launch that and inside a
virtual box you can install any
operating system possible so I have
put Ubuntu Linux in side of VirtualBox
on my Windows 7 machine ok so let me
run this up and I just wanna let you
know you can actually find a link in
the description below which tells you
how to install VirtualBox and Linux on
your windows 7 .
if you want to go ahead and do
that but this is the Ubuntu Linux
that is launching right now ok so here
you're looking at bound to Linux and
before we dive into the commands I'm
going to show you something real
quick what you're seeing here all
these icons all this desktop all this
nice graphical features this is called
the GUI GUI this is called the
graphical user interface now we're not
worried about that today what we're
worried about is the CLI which is
called a command line interface so you
have to launch a terminal to go into
the command line interface and then
once you are search for an app you can
type in terminal which brings up the
terminal right here and then you can
actually click that and that is the
terminal we will be working with all
right so the first command we will be
looking at today is the PWD command
oops it's not typing okay p WD command
PWD command stands for print working
directory so when I press ENTER it
actually tells me which directory I am
currently located at so if I go to
my own folder browser I am actually in
home sake which is right here so I'm
looking at all these guys on my
command prompt.
now the second command I want to
show you guys is the LS command when
you press LS it gives you a listing of
everything which is in the current
directory so the current directory is
the sake directory which is my
username and under home inside of
home I've got all these guys so I've
got the desktop downloads music public
videos and if you come over here that's
all the same stuff you're gonna see
in a regular File Explorer so here's
the desktop documents downloads music
same stuff that you see here so that
is the LS command it's it's it stands
for list and when you list it lists
whatever is inside of your current
directory again PWD stands for print
working directory so it tells you
where you are currently located in
now as you can see when you have a
pretty graphical user interface you
can see everything right in front of
you but if you have a command line
interface like this one a terminal
you're not gonna be able to see
anything so if I clear this that's
all you see so you have no idea where
you are okay so to see where you are
PWD to see what you have at where you
are you type in list now the next
command I'm going to show you is
called a CD command and CD command
has a lot of variations CD is used
for navigation so let's say I want
to go to the Downloads folder.
how do I go there I type in CD
and I type in downloads the name of
the folder and just remember
everything
has to be exactly as it appears so the
in in Linux everything is
case-sensitive so this cannot be a
small d it has to be capitalized just
like it is here okay so if I type in
CD downloads now I am in the downloads
folder okay and how do I know I'm in
downloads folder PWD it actually
tells you right here so I'm in home
slash sake / downloads okay and let's
see what we have in downloads right
now type in list and there's nothing
in downloads so that's all launch this
again go to downloads and as you can
see download directory is actually
empty okay so if it is empty you're
not gonna see anything here now let's
say I want to go back to my home
directory my sake directory how do I
go back so CD takes you into a folder
and if you want to go out what you do
is you type in CD space two dots and
that takes you back to the previous
directory that you were focused on now
if you want to go to the root directory
which is like in Windows it's like the
C directory what you type is CD
forward slash make sure you put the
space okay so CD space forward slash
press Enter and that's gonna take you
to the root directory.
let's type in LS and as you can
see the root directory has much more
than your user directory okay again
but home and sake is inside of root
root is at the top of everything so
if you look around carefully you'll
see the home directory sitting in the
root directory and if you go in there
CD home and you type in LS you will
see your username okay and then CD
sake then you type in LS and now you're
back over here this and this match so
remember this will take you to the root
of your Linux operating system and
inside of root you've got all kinds of
fancy things that you don't want to
worry about right now so let's do a
quick recap let's go to the music
folder CD music so I'm now in the
music's folder or the directory I'm
going to be using the the word folder
and directory interchangeably
interchangeably and they're gonna be
mean B meaning the same exact thing
okay so in here let's type in PWD so
that means prank working directory and
it tells you that you are in fact
focused on the music folder again if
you go over here here's the music
folder if you go to home here's the
music folder okay it's empty let's
type in LS to see if it is really
empty it is in fact empty so next
I'm going to show you how to copy or
move a file so let's go back CD
space dot takes us back and do an
LS and let's say I want to go into
the Documents folder so I type in CD
Documents and then type in LS and
here what I have is I have a test
file so this is one of the files what
I want to do what I want to do is I
want to copy this file and I'm gonna
use the CP command for that that
stands for a copy I'm gonna copy this
test file and I'm going to paste it
into the same folder with a different
name so test copy and I'm going to
press Enter okay just to give you make
you understand exactly what happens
so you use the copy command you pick
the file that you're trying to copy
and then you give it a brand new name
to create the copy within the same
folder okay so if I type in LS now you
have the first file test and then
you've got test copy now how do I
remove this file you use the RM
command okay so the RM command is used
to delete file in your current folder.
so if you type in RM test copy
and you type in LS as you can see test
copy is gone and we only have test
left over now what if I want to copy
test file and I want to paste it
into the Downloads folder how do you
do that okay what you got to do is you
have type in CP and you take the test
file and then you have to tell the
computer where do you want to put the
copy of the test file so remember if
you go up here we're working under
home / sake okay so what you want to
do is you want to do slash home slash
sake slash downloads and you press
ENTER and type in LS we still have the
test file right here now
let's go back CD doc type in LS
and let's navigate to the Downloads
folder and if I type in LS here now
we've got the file test sitting here
which we copied over from the
Documents folder so let's go ahead
and remove this file from the
Downloads folder so our M is the
remove command RM test and remember
because we are focused in two downloads
when we do RM test its gonna dump
it's gonna delete the test file only
from the Downloads folder because
that is where we are focused on press
ENTER type in list one more time LS
and now there's nothing there left
so let's go back let's just type in
PWD and we're back in a home sake okay
next the next style let's talk about
making a new folder and deleting the
new folder so let me launch this right
here and I'm gonna minimize I'm gonna
make this a little thinner here okay
so you can still see what's going on
one second alright so that's better
so let's go to my arm My Documents over
here and let's go to CD documents
oops Dawkins okay so now we're in the
Documents folder and all we have in
here is the test file which you can
see right here let's make a new
folder so how you make a new folder
you use the command called MK dir
press ENTER and it's gonna say some
kind of error because we were missing
an operand okay so we were missing the
new directory we used the command what
we did not specify the name of the
directory so you type in MK dere dir
and then you type in test folder I'm
gonna use capital letters here okay
and as you can see over here a test
folder was created instantly and I
can actually go into that test folder
if I wanted to LS and there's nothing
in there.
so let's go back CD dot dot
and let's delete the test folder so
how do you delete that what you do is
you using the commune's the command
rmdir so this one is make directory
this one is remove directory type in
test folder and I'm not gonna press
ENTER take a look over here and let's
come back here and press ENTER and that
directory disappears now if the
directory had something inside it we
cannot delete the directory that has
stuff in it using our m dir okay so
let's uh MK dir make another directory
in the Documents folder and say test ok
so it popped up right here and let's go
inside here and let's just create a new
document ok new doc now if I try to
delete this using rmdir test folder
let's go back here ok so now the test
folder has a file in it it is the new
doc okay if I try to delete this
it's gonna say failed to remove test
directory is not empty so how do you
delete this you have to actually use
theRM command which is a remove
command for files but what you do is
you have to set a new option you have
to say - R and then you have to type
in test ok so watch this there's still
a file in here but it's just gonna
disappear okay so everything in test
has been removed so this is how you
delete folders that have existing files
inside of them you use the RM command
you put a space you put a minus R and
then you put a space and then you put
the name of the directory right
underneath and right next to minus
R okay so here it's got a really messy
here so let's use the clear command to
clear the screen real quick and I'm
going to talk about a couple other
commands and we're gonna end the
tutorial here all right so the final
command I want to go over is called a
man command
okay MA and now this stands for manual
manuals okay like like tutorials so when
you don't know what you're doing and you
want to find out more about any command
that you're using you can type in man
space and let's just say the LS command
which is the list command and you press
ENTER it's gonna give you a whole lot of
information regarding the LS command so
you're gonna get the name of the command
which is LS it says list directory
contents okay you get a quick setup
synopsis you get a description of what
the command exactly does and all that
stuff and once you're done reading this
whole thing you just type key Q to quit
okay so let's do one more man and let's
do the CP command which is the copy
command
press ENTER and it says here it copies
files and directories okay and you have
a description here and you can read
through this whole thing and you can
keep pressing enter to get more
information so press ENTER to continue
okay to go all the way but when you're
done you can press Q and it just quits
the manual so that's how you can get
information on any command that you want
in Linux alright and thanks for watching
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