Contents:
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slideshow
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Basic Linux Stuff
User Interfaces
The K Desktop Environment, KDE
GNOME
Less Resource-Hungry Interfaces
The Command Line
The Commandline: BASH
What is it?
Commandline: why???
Some BASH One-Liners
Bash Tutorial Material
Commandline Completion
The BASH History
Filing System, File and Directory Handling
File Handling
Top-Level Directories
Users, Groups and File Permissions
Nautilus, Dolphin and Konqueror
File Permissions at the Commandline
Directory Handling at the Commandline
Copying, Moving and Removing Files
Editors
Quick and Dirty File Content
Processes
Processes
Running Programmes
Stdout, Stdin and Stderr
Backgrounding Jobs
BASH: More and Scripts
More on BASH
Commandline Power and Flexibility
Example BASH Scripts
Installation
Installation
From where?
Distributions
Dual-booting and Virtualisation
Cygwin and Co-Linux
More
More at Manchester and Elsewhere
Man Pages
On-line BASH Tutorials
On-line Linux Help and Tutorials
On-line References
Practical Session
Practical Session
Practical: File Handling
About this document
Basic Linux Stuff
Backgrounding Jobs
Use an ampersand:
prompt> gedit &
Or, if you forget, issue a
Ctrl-Z
and then enter
bg
(background):
prompt> gedit ^Z [1]+ Stopped gedit prompt> bg [1]+ gedit &
Why?
May wish to issue more commands from command line.
GUI/Menu may not be available (e.g., remote connection/login).
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