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[Brie Gordon]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Steve Brettell <sbrettell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm very new to Linux, and frankly, can't afford the price of the books I've
>> found in the bookstores.  So I'm leeching off the interwebs.  I don't have
>> much to contribute right now, unless questions that bring good answers are a
>> contribution.
>
> Absolutely.  Ask a question.  If it gets answered, then that's
> available in Google for the next person with the same problem.
> Posting questions you can't answer on your own after Googling and
> trying to figure it out independantly  *is* contributing - because
> somebody else *will* have the same problem.
>
>> That said, is there any kind of a tutorial about using the terminal
>> effectively?  It looks to me like this is the heart of Linux country.
>
> Something you may not realize is that the various terminal programs
> all put you in something called a 'shell'.
>
> That 'shell' is just like your desktop - it has rules and patterns and
> does things a certain way.
>
> Where it can get confusing is that there is more than one 'shell',
> just like KDE and Gnome and Windows are all different GUIs.
>
> The most commonly used shell, the default in Ubuntu, is called 'bash'
>   (a shortform with a long history)
>
> Where I'm going with this long winded explaination is this - you might
> get better results from Google if you started searching for
> information on using 'bash' the shell, rather than the generic word
> 'terminal'.
>
> Oh,  and this link might be helpful too -
> <http://linuxcomand.org/learning_the_shell.php>
>
> Brian
>
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I've found this site useful:
http://www.ss64.com/bash/index.html

It's a bunch of basic commands. Browse around until you find something
useful and try it out! One of the best ways to learn is through
experience. Best of luck.

-- 
Regards,

Brie A. Gordon
A Linux Chica

http://granite.sru.edu/~bag6849/index.html