Intro to the Linux Terminal Part 1: Navigating in the Terminal

I've been meaning to do a series on Terminal Commands for months and months now, so here we go!

Let me know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see with this series. Thanks!


Thanks for watching!

[CaptainAndrewWiggins]

is it just me or is this guy a paragon of tutoring excellence?

[thisweekinlinux]

@Tomdiana yeah, tab completion is a REALLY great feature. it even works for commands. I probably should have mentioned that. So if you typed in "fire" and hit tab, it would either complete "firefox", or give you a list of items that start with "fire" that you can finish typing.

[Shakez]

Great idea Jordan. I bet this helps a lot of folks feel more comfortable.

[thisweekinlinux]

@RandomMalcolm you're very welcome. I hope the future ones are helpful.

[thisweekinlinux]

@KingHerring you're absolutely right. I think I'm going to do a "part 1.5" for my second channel to clear up some of these things.

[AlexanderPataridze]

All of your videos are so easy to understand. i've never liked the website explaining contents. So very big thanks to you :)

[thisweekinlinux]

@BeerIndependence4All To change the terminal to green on black, from the Gnome Terminal go to Edit -> Profile Preferences, click the Colors tab, uncheck "Use colors from system theme", and from the dropdown beside "Built-in schemes" select Green on Black.

[thisweekinlinux]

@sinapsis50 you're absolutely right. I completely forgot to mention case-sensitivity. i'm going to make an addendum to this part and put it on my second channel, hopefully tonight, that covers some of the things I missed.

[thisweekinlinux]

@elbayames41 thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

[russjr]

You know, I think this is going to be a great series, and I look forward to seeing more! One thing I should mention, is that when you try to move into a directory that has a space, you would need to do the cd command with quotes around the directory name or you would need to use an escape character. One thing that I actually just found out is that the dollar sign after the path means you are a regular user, and if you was using the root account it would be a # symbol. I love using the Terminal!

[thisweekinlinux]

@FearedBliss Thanks a lot! I figured it wouldn't be terribly useful to people who are familiar with the terminal, but perhaps later in the series I can come up with some stuff for more advanced people.

[thisweekinlinux]

@mh3rn4nd3z3 it's a series, I was just starting with what I traditionally consider easy, and I'll work up to more difficult stuff. I definitely understand the need to explain it. I believe I did mention at some point that the goal was to introduce people to the terminal who normally wouldn't use it and help allay some fears people might have.
I figure if you take it slow, introduce things and explain exactly how they work, even beginners can do it.

[Vindaturk]

Great Idea for a video series man. I wish people spent more time reading about the Terminal. It just makes things so much easier to explain when people have a basic foundation of the terminal. I think after people learn this, they will appreciate the Arch Linux distros a lot more. Well, they will appreciate them all a lot more for that matter. Good job man. Sweet Vid!

[fabidj]

exelente tutoria para ir perfeccionando mis conocimientos en linux.Muchs gracias desde argentina :)

[thisweekinlinux]

@TheJuroth you're very welcome. :)

[PaulPistore]

Thanks! Great Vid. Top Notch as always.

I dabble in the terminal a bit, but this series will encourage me to explore more.

[jakeg]

This video was very basic, but should be extremely helpful for terminal n00bs :) I'm looking forwards to the later episodes in this series when you move on to more complicated things :-)

Great video keep it up!

[boisapunk]

really awesome. I'm new to Linux and I hope you keep these coming

[FatLingon]

the only new thing I didn't know was "cd" alone takes you to home, and the "touch" command... thank you! Looking forward to the next episode in this series, I bet there's gonna be even more stuff for me to learn when we get past the most basic stuff.

[thisweekinlinux]

@Genomaza9 you can indeed. You can do it within Nautilus (or whatever file browser you use). If it's not in your /home directory, you just have to run it with gksu or gksudo.