Learning Objectives
At the end of this project, you are expected to be able to explain to anyone, without the help of Google:
Description
Project based Bash and Shell. __ General
What does RTFM mean?
What is a Shebang
What is the Shell
What is the shell
What is the difference between a terminal and a shell
What is the shell prompt
How to use the history (the basics)
Navigation
What do the commands or built-ins cd, pwd, ls do
How to navigate the filesystem
What are the . and .. directories
What is the working directory, how to print it and how to change it
What is the root directory
What is the home directory, and how to go there
What is the difference between the root directory and the home directory of the user root
What are the characteristics of hidden files and how to list them
What does the command cd - do
Looking Around
What do the commands ls, less, file do
How do you use options and arguments with commands
Understand the ls long format and how to display it
A Guided Tour
What does the ln command do
What do you find in the most common/important directories
What is a symbolic link
What is a hard link
What is the difference between a hard link and a symbolic link
Manipulating Files
What do the commands cp, mv, rm, mkdir do
What are wildcards and how do they work
How to use wildcards
Working with Commands
What do type, which, help, man commands do
What are the different kinds of commands
What is an alias
When do you use the command help instead of man
Reading Man Pages
How to read a man page
What are man page sections
What are the section numbers for User commands, System calls and Library functions
Keyboard Shortcuts for Bash
Common shortcuts for Bash
LTS
What does LTS mean?
Requirements
Allowed editors: vi, vim, emacs
All your scripts will be tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
All your scripts should be exactly two lines long ($ wc -l file should print 2)
All your files should end with a new line (why?)
The first line of all your files should be exactly #!/bin/bash
A README.md file at the root of the holberton-system_engineering-devops repo, containing a description of the repository
A README.md file, at the root of the folder of this project, describing what each script is doing
You are not allowed to use backticks, &&, || or ;
All your scripts must be executable. Use this command: chmod u+x file. We will see later what it means.
Repository
This is my repository for the Holberton Shell Basics, all the code was writen by Michael Galindez.