Command Line Crash Course For Beginners | Terminal Commands

This is a course for beginners to learn how to navigate the terminal/command line. I tried to make it as OS agnostic as possible, but if you are on Windows, I suggest using something like "Git Bash".

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Agora Sponsor
1:34 - Slides Start
2:00 - Why Learn The Command Line?
5:43 - Command Line vs Terminal vs Shell
8:25 - Let's Talk About Windows
10:30 - Gist File
12:20 - Up & Down Arrow
12:44 - Tab Key
13:08 - Keyboard Shortcuts
14:11 - man
15:11 - whoami
15:17 - date
15:21 - clear
15:47 - pwd
16:09 - ls
18:13 - cd
19:35 - open, start, xdg-open
20:25 - mkdir
20:55 - touch
21:22 - rm
22:31 - rm -r
23:48 - cp
24:28 - mv
27:46 - cat
29:14 - RIght Angle Bracket (piping)
30:32 - less
31:00 - head
31:21 - tail
32:01 - nano
33:04 - echo
33:53 - grep
36:10 - find
38:03 - More On Piping
39:44 - ln (symlinks)
41:36 - tar
43:45 - history

[hvvk]

It is a blessing to actually a crash courses that teaches the basics especially for me that doesn't have IT background.

[CameraGuy]

Man, Brad is an angel. I've always wanted CLI crash course and here it is. Thanks Brad.

[HeyMr.OO]

Hi Brad, Abhishek from INDIA. You are one of the most sought-after mentors out there. Just wanted to say Thanks for all the endeavour you put in all these years. And yes, Take care of yourself. GOD Bless You 😇

[okiroroobrutheanagho]

Thanks Brad. Your video contents have always been a great support for me. I appreciate.

[jurkgurka]

This was well done and very easy to understand. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

[aubreyocallaghan]

Brad thank you for video.. I've used terminals for well over 30 years and still learned a couple of of tips. For example cd - . use pushd and popd a lot but cd - will be useful.

[haraldurkarlsson]

I watched watched a ton of different videos on using the terminal (Mac) and this ranks amongst the best. Thanks.

[sumitkumarsoni]

And Brad is back with another great and helpful tutorial 🔥❤️

[hw]

Brad,
I truly appreciate your time and effort in making this crash course.
Thanks

[XnonXte]

I just started learning cli and this video helped me the most. Thanks Brad!

[dertyherryfilms]

Great resource...I don't know why, but this has been one of the most simple terminal related content that I could actually digest....thnx

[cindtoro]

This is an awesome video you did a really great job putting this together we know how much work these things are. Thanks for being so helpful!

[faisalrasheed]

How this guy knows what i need to learn ?... Absolutely legend

[Martin]

I was just thinking I needed a course like this, then it came along.

[haraldurkarlsson]

Good stuff. Very concise and clear explanation.

[samplayingkeeps]

Thank you so so much for this! This was so well done and easy to understand.

[Hacking-NASSA-with-HTML]

All is simple: I see Brad's video I smash "Like" button.

[joelee]

learning cyber security and doing CTFs and was super lost on the CLI commands and how to navigate the directories this helped a lot I really appreciate you taking the time to make this to help us beginners out :)

[Piyush_Kumbhare]

You saved me a lot of time by making this usefull tutorial. I've been looking for resources to learn command line and there you came! Thank you so much for the lovely tutorial.

[outpost]

Great stuff. I have trouble remembering all of the commands so I've made a list for future reference.