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[Florian Diesch]

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.
>
> That said, is there any kind of a tutorial about using the terminal
> effectively?  

A good thing to start with is "Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition":
Install the package rutebook and go to /usr/share/doc/rutebook/.
Some parts (especially the ones about configuring some programs) are
a bit out of date but IMHO it's still a very good book.

If you want to know some more about shell scripting the "Advanced
Bash-Scripting Guide" is for you (package abs-guide, see
/usr/share/doc/abs-guide).

The "Debian Reference" (package debian-reference-en,
/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference) and the APT Howto (package
apt-howto-en, /usr/share/doc/Debian/apt-howto) are focused on Debian
(which Ubuntu is derived from) and some things are a bit different for
Ubuntu (like release names and the repositories) but most of it is
still useful.


   Florian
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