Terminal

[andy baxter]

Steve Brettell 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?  It looks to me like this is the heart of Linux country.
>
> I've looked at lists of terms, etc, but that doesn't look like the 
> answer.  There's a lot there, and I'd like to start down that path, 
> but need LOTS of bread crumbs.
A good way might be if you can think of a definite project you want to 
do which is best done, or can only be done, from the terminal, then 
learn what you need to do that as you go along.

An example of what I mean would be if you have, or can beg or borrow an 
old PC from somewhere, you could set up a home web server on it which 
you could access from outside over ADSL. Or a file / printer server to 
let you back up and share data between several machines. This would have 
a useful end result as well as teaching you a lot along the way about 
system administration.

Most of what I've learned has been from the man pages, the debian system 
admin guide, linux how-tos, asking questions on email lists, and just 
experimenting rather than working my way through a book. But if you 
would prefer a book / tutorial I would second Florian in saying that the 
rute linux guide looks pretty good.

andy