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Learn Linux

Never fear a Linux terminal again. Navigate the filesystem, inspect processes, and automate everyday developer tasks.

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What will you learn?

So many developers go years before understanding the basics of shells, terminals, and Linux (or more generally Unix-like systems). Here you'll learn to navigate files and directories, install dependencies, configure your PATH, and use powerful CLI tools like grep, find, and pipes. Never fear the command line again, make it fear you.

Chapter List

1
The Command Line
Learn how to use a CLI, and why text-based interfaces are so powerful.
2
Filesystems
Learn how to navigate a filesystem, and how to create, move, and delete files and directories.
3
Programs
Practice the ins and outs of executing programs and scripts from the command line and understand your PATH
4
Input/Output
Learn how to use command line flags, arguments, and connect the stdin and stdout of programs to create modular automations
5
Local CLI
Move onto your own machine and cover everything the browser couldn't: a real terminal and WSL, manual pages, interactive pagers, live processes, and real users, root, and sudo.
6
Permissions
Learn how to use permissions to control access to files and directories.
7
Editors and Packages
Learn how to use package managers like Homebrew, APT and Webi to install and manage software, and set up your development environment.
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I great step to do after the learning python course, was easy to understand and made Linux/terminals not scary

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Jordan Fussell

United States

I learned a lot about CLI and Bash. Sometimes during the course, I thought I was a hacker, didn't thought I could find linux cool.

(5/5)
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Gabriel Santos Teixeira

Brazil

Give me a chance to ditch windows.

(5/5)
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Hồ Bá Hưng

Vietnam

Great! easy to follow, actually fun to learn for once

(5/5)
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NirmataCipher

United States

Great linux course!

(5/5)
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Henri Grimm

United States

Before this course i was afraid of cmd.exe, not anymore

(5/5)
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Gustavo Dempke

Córdoba, Argentina

Good first intro into linux. Skip it if you know a bit of linux.

(4/5)
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mate-matiker

Germany

I started using Linux over the past couple of years. This course helped me firm up my understanding of how the terminal operates and has really propelled me forward fairly quickly.

(5/5)
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Caleb Bell

United States

As always great tutorial on linux systems

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Nairobi, Kenya

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