<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Hafiz Imtiaz <<a href="mailto:eee.imtiaz@gmail.com">eee.imtiaz@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello all Could you please suggest me a book [that is available in Nilkhet or on the Internet] that will teach me Ubuntu/Linux starting from the basics to some advanced level?</blockquote><div>Any books on Linux will do for starting it. Even Unix :) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The problem is, I am using Ubuntu, doing many things using the GUI and terminal without actually knowing them in depth.</blockquote><div>That's cool that you are not satisfied with GUI. Power linux users CLI. After finishing one book, try to go through <a href="http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html">http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html</a> and if you are fan of CLI linux you should visit <a href="http://www.tldp.org">www.tldp.org</a> on daily basis. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> For example, I have installed Matlab using command line, following a tutorial. From that I came to know that "sh" is needed for running "shell scripts". But I do not actually know what a shell script is.</blockquote><div> Shell script is nothing but consecutive commands executed in order to do complex task. Very simplified definition though :D When you are ready, you should by now,  read <a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/</a>, or <a href="http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~zjohnson/doc/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/">http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~zjohnson/doc/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/</a> OR <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=bash+scripting+howto&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">http://www.google.com/search?q=bash+scripting+howto&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a</a> :) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Similarly, I have installed java and created symbolic links for java plug-ins for Matlab and Firefox, but all i did was just to follow some tutorial on the net. I know I must write "sudo -i" to be the root, but i don't know what the "-i" stands for.</blockquote><div>read man sudo :-(   </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> But I want to Learn linux thoroughly, starting from basic file operations in both CLI and GUI to advanced and system integrated tasks.</blockquote><div> Get tons of books from <a href="http://www.4shared.com">www.4shared.com</a>  or other file sharing sites.. just try this link to download as much as you can, NO, as much as you can digest :D <a href="http://www.4shared.com/network/search.jsp?searchmode=2&searchName=linux+pdf">http://www.4shared.com/network/search.jsp?searchmode=2&searchName=linux+pdf</a> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Can you please help me?</blockquote><div> If we know how to use google, we would not  ask it here :D We must do that: Effective search through Google!!! 1. Use <a href="http://www.google.com/linux">http://www.google.com/linux</a> for linux related search. 2. Use <a href="http://www.google.com/advanced_search">http://www.google.com/advanced_search</a> for advance search. 3. Read Advance Search Made Easy at <a href="http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advanced&hl=en">http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advanced&\ hl=en</a> 4. Read about advance operators at <a href="http://www.google.com/help/operators.html">http://www.google.com/help/operators.html</a> 5. And finally bookmark cheetsheets for time to time review :) <a href="http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html">http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html</a> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks in advance -- Hafiz Imtiaz Fortune 0306005 EEE, BUET Phone:- 01915698207 -- ubuntu-bd mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd</a> </blockquote></div> -- -- *ДЈ) И.ЗДИ.З*ДЈ) И.З*Ј) (И.ЗД (И.З` *Mustafa Golam -.*.-`-*CCNA,CCDA,RHCE`.*.-:"`.*`'.`',.`'.`'.'`,. -.*.-`,`.*,CCDP,CCNP,CCIP,CCVP(..).-:"`.CCIE(..)'.'`,. <a href="http://mustafa.golam.googlepages.com/home">http://mustafa.golam.googlepages.com/home</a> "Winners never quit------Quiters never win"