High School Computer Technology

I wanted to post some resources regarding our practical activity on CLI.

There are many fun things we can do with the (Mac OS X / Unix / Linux) terminal (sometimes AKA “console”), but the most important commands you need to remember are:

ls
cd
mv
cp

more information on the Bash shell can be found at:

Two-part Beginner’s guide to Apple Terminal ( part one, part two )
This guide is also useful to those who want to learn about Bash, regardless of the platform.

• http://www.hacktheday.com/beginners-guide-to-apple-terminal-part-1/
• http://www.hacktheday.com/beginner%E2%80%99s-guide-to-apple-terminal-part-2/

Tutorials about the (Linux) command shell:

• http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6624/1/
• http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l6/lesson6a.html

Cheat sheet with the most imporntant commands

• http://fosswire.com/2007/08/02/unixlinux-command-cheat-sheet/
• You can download it directly from here: fwunixref

How to get the (Unix/Linux) terminal under Windows
Be careful with this, not recommended if you are not sure of what you are doing.

• http://www.cygwin.com/

Background information on shells

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)