General :: Good Online Source For Tutorial To Use System Shell / Terminal?
Jul 18, 2010
I have recently loaded Linux Mint on an old IBM Laptop and am very happy with the GUI; however, I would like to learn how to use the Linux shell/terminal. I don't know any of the commands. Is there a good online source for this information--a tutorial or list?
I've no experience with IPSec. I've used many times OpenVPN (with static key or certificates x509). Could anyone suggest me a good tutorial in order to learn IPSec vpn with Linux?
I am trying to write a .sh script that will source a file containing evnironment variables and then open a konsole terminal session that will have those settings.
Does anyone knows about some good c++ tutorial ? I don't wanna something for absolute beginners,I need something for advanced topics, tips...Something you liked and helped you a lot I prefer Internet tutorials/e-books but "real" book should be good too.
I've been playing around a bit with Xlib programming, and I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a good tutorial involving XContext's? Even if someone could explain the concept to me a bit.
I'm trying to Use Expect to automate a curl function. basically I don't want to type enter for my script to run. Can anyone point me to a good Expect tutorial?
send "pen" (till the end of lines generated as in |more.... usually we use like 8 space bar buttons after "pen" to generate all) and I want to redirect the whole generated result of "pen" to results.
......................................... tape_restore.sh: 40: source: not found tape_restore.sh: 41: source: not found tape_restore.sh: 42: source: not found .................................
But in Redhat I can run same script . My script as follows.
I've been thinking about picking up a subscription to Linux Journal and maybe Linux Pro. Are there any other good Linux mags out there? Only other one I've read much of was Linux Format, which kinda felt like it was mostly just an anti-MS fanclub.
this is srinath,newbie to linux and shell scripts.am in need of shell script,which have to checkout the source code(C/C++) from CVS server to a specified directory and compile that source code and get all its dependency files to a specified directory.
I would like to find a Linux testing environment , my PC is slow , it is not good to install VM and I do not have laptop , besides , I want to do testing at different places , can advise is there online Linux testing environment ? I just want to test the Linux command .
Is it possible to put the ISO images for Debian on your system and point the APT config at them with some sort of driver to read them like disks? That would sure save a lot of disk swapping.
I've a ibm x3650 with redhat 5.5 x86 This hardware has a feature for online-sparring for the memory.I know it can be seen from the bios. Does anyone know how can i confirm if the online sparring is enable or not from the operating system.
Sites providing video tutorials on linux which are free to download. I've got one site "www.showmedo.com". Here I can get different tutorials on opensource like scribus, gimp, C++,python etc.
Can anyone provide me any other good sites like this?
i am running slackware and i cant set my terminal to regular shell. when i open up a terminal i see something like bash4.1 instead of hostname and nickname how can i change this. i use more than one terminal so id liek to make this change for all terminals
Right now when I start a program from a terminal I can't use that terminal instance again until I close the program.
I am a new user of linux, and I want to know if there is a way to execute a program/application from a terminal without blocking the terminal until the program ends.
There are a couple commands I want to run in a terminal that require me to provide my password. I really don't want those commands ending up in any kind of history or anywhere else where they could be seen by someone after the command was run. Are there any shells/terminals for Ubuntu that I could use (or options to bash/zsh/etc) that would give me a secure environment where I don't have to worry about my history being kept?
What are the differences between shell , console & terminal?
This probably sounds like a stupid question but I'm having a lot of trouble clearly differentiating between a shell (such as Bourne or bash) and the Terminal application in GNOME. I realise that both are completely different but I can't seem to find a clear answer written in text. Could anyone clearly distinguish between both?
I have come across the use of the term terminal, virtual terminals/consoles, real-text terminals but do not understand what terminal refers to. Does it refer to the screen that is in-front of me whilst I post this question or does it refer to something specific?EDITI came across a similar post at What are the differences between shell , console & terminal? and it seems to be similar to the one I posted although am still confused about the use of the sentence Decades ago, this was a physical device consisting of little more than a monitor and keyboard. What does this device look like and how is different to a monitor?