Basic Linux Seminar

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

1. Connecting to a linux machine via ssh.

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

1. 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.

1. pwd

• landing zone
• where am I

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