Basic Linux Seminar

January 16, 2017 from 10am to 12pm, B107 Van Vleck

Connecting to a linux machine via ssh.

• hand out account credentials for non-math attendees
• explain Linux vs. Unix, open source

Using SCP to move items from your machine to the server, using sFTP, Filezilla, SecureFX

• Terminal on mac, linux
• download and install SSH program (like SecureCRT) for Windows.

pwd

• landing zone
• where am I

cd

• changing directories
• shortcuts for changing directories
  • ~, ., ..,
• tab completion

Creating/removing directories

• mkdir
• rmdir

Creating files

• touch
• nano nameoffile
• nano is a simple (and one of many) text editor, vi, emacs, joe, etc.

Listing contents of your directory

• ls
• use of option flags to see more
• ls -l
• ls -la
• ls -last

1. Moving around your home directory; pwd
2. Moving items in your home directory (2 methods); relative; absolute
3. Listing items in your home directory; Listing with command line options.
4. Removing directories and files (use caution!)
5. Permissions; recursive, letter method, number method
6. Touch command.
7. Man command
8. Printing items in your home directory to a printer via command line
9.  using lpq to see items in the print queue
10. using lprm to remove items in the print queue.
11. editing a file using nano
12. more about file editors.
13. make your own script
14. quota command; du -s subdir
15. locate command