Working with the Linux Terminal

Working with the Linux Terminal

The Linux terminal or Linux console is a system console internal to the Linux kernel. The Linux terminal provides a way for the kernel and other processes to send text output to the user, and to receive text input from the user.

Collection of tutorials mainly for beginners

• A nice, short run-down tutorial: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php
• A short collection of the basic commands: http://genepath.med.harvard.edu/~depalma/unixPrimer.html
• Tuesday tiny techie tips: http://tomecat.com/jeffy/tttt/

bash

• http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php

zsh

• http://www.rayninfo.co.uk/tips/zshtips.html
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-z.html?dwzone=linux
• http://docs.cs.byu.edu/linux/advanced/zsh.html
• http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/zsh/

Text editor:

emacs

• http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
• http://jeremy.zawodny.com/emacs/emacs.html
• http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/tcl-course/emacs-tutorial.html

vi(m)

• http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html
• http://www.unix-manuals.com/tutorials/vi/vi-in-10-1.html
• http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html
• http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html

Editor war

• http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Vim_vs_Emacs
• http://www.io.com/~dierdorf/emacsvi.html
• http://changelog.complete.org/archives/661-so-long-vim-im-returning-to-emacs
• http://www.sanityinc.com/articles/vim-vs-emacs

Rangsiman Ketkaew