Linux Up Skill - Day 2

I’ve fallen behind a little due to some family responsibilities but since this is a self paced lesson plan it isn’t too much of a worry.

This lesson focused on getting comfortable moving around the command line. We started working with commands such as cd, ls, and mkdir. I’m familiar with these commands but working through the switches is helpful as I just don’t remember them very much.

I love that one section of the lesson was titled RTFM by using the man command. I personally prefer reading up on commands from a separate webpage than from my shell but you never know when you might be in a situation where you are trying to fix something without internet.

I learned about pushd and popd, commands I had never used before. These will come in handy and make it much easier to navigate around. Then there was direction on how environmental variables like PS1 work. Pretty darn cool and I can see this as being helpful when working with a number of different machines at the same time to help differentiate them.

Since I completed this lesson yesterday I might be able to get to lesson 3 today. We’ll see if I can get through the lesson and post about it today or if I’ll have to come back tomorrow.