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By: Norm

Norm — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:11:16 +0000

@perozzi

it’s called putty
you can initiate telnet sessions via putty and logon to the shell..
you might need sftp from time to time, to transfer files from-to your computer to the remote linux server. For that, I use Bitwise Tunnelier, but there many other alternatives out there with sftp feature

By: perozzi

perozzi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:51:32 +0000

just a question: there is a way to control a linux server using command lines through windows?

a software or something similar: that would be useful for shared or remote hosting.

thanks and excuse me for the question, i’m a noob

By: Norm

Norm — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:50:31 +0000

With some knowledge of basic shell scripting (not too advanced, mind you) you can write yourself a little prompt that will allow you to select files to copy. Here’s the pseudocode that comes to mind;

1 – prompt user for the command he wants to execute in this folder; cp? rm? mv?
2 – after the command is specified, ask the user if he/she want any switches appended to the command? display the man page if need be..
3 – after the command and the switches are determined, prompt for destination folder, mkdir default if folder does not exist
3 – ask the user the method of sorting through the files in the folder. are you going to use regular expressions? (that is really fast but requires extreme caution) are you going to apply this to the whole folder? (that doesn’t really need a script, but throw it in there for the sake of completeness) are you going to “ls” and apply it line by line? are you going to use wildcards? (i.e. cp ab*.jp* ~/blabla means copy all files that start their names with ab and start their extension with jp to the blabla folder)

and so on.. there are probably features and possible solutions I have overlooked.. Feel free to correct/complete it..

By: Diabolic Preacher

Diabolic Preacher — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:50:38 +0000

is there some way to disable pasting text onto a konsole or a gnometerm (or whatever the gnome version is called)? probably that’ll make people look thru what they are pasting from the web.

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By: Aibek

Aibek — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:29:12 +0000

yeah, probably u got a wrong version. Normally linux distros (packages) come with a decent graphical user interface. I have Ubuntu on my system and although I am not a power user, I am quite comfortable with it.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:25:23 +0000

I frequently use Command Promt (Windows) for tasks that I am not able to do through GUI. One of them is traceroute command i.e. tracert domain. I don't think there is a way to execute it from GUI.

By: binoy

binoy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:28:43 +0000

yes its easier from the gui if you need to randomly pick 75 files, but if you have a pattern (which is usually the case for ) the command line would be faster than handpicking the 75 files.
I have been using linux for about 8 years now. I can defiantly say for sure, the command line and the gnu tools are by far the best thing about linux , and of course other *nix OS’s

By: Desmond

Desmond — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:35:16 +0000

Productivity? What if I have 100 files in a directory and I only want to copy 75 files out of it to another directory. Now tell me which is more productive: typing in terminal or select and drag in GUI? Command line is useful in some aspects but mostly it’s lame.

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By: Tony P

Tony P — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:47:46 +0000

Just don’t ever rm -rf /, use rm -rfi /

By: Omar Abid

Omar Abid — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:54:50 +0000

I installed linux on my pc (i’m a windows user) and when i run it i found only a command line! Is this all linux, or i did something wrong help please!

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:46:51 +0000

I didn’t like using the command line now I use it a lot, I prefer to use it for MySQL as it is so much quicker.

By: Jim Dom

Jim Dom — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:11:45 +0000

Wow dude, I am impressed on that one for sure.

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By: Faust-C

Faust-C — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:24:14 +0000

I use zsh, here is a “.zshrc” that makes using a shell even more simple, it has command completion, w/ argument completion. Here “http://bsdtips.utcorp.net/mediawiki/index.php/ZSH_Config”

By: Clyde Booom

Clyde Booom — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:35:30 +0000

Excellent intro overview to Linux commands.

Watch out for the rm command!

And also see the first comment that’s posted above.

In a lot of Linux distros, there is an alias to the rm command that adds the -i option to the command so that you have to confirm that you want to run the command before it executes.

However, this isn’t the case for all users, including the root user, in all distros.

Some people like to learn Linux by watching Linux training videos.

You can watch some sample Linux training videos to see how to use Linux commands at:

http://www.iLearnLinux.com/Linux-Commands

Thanks for this Linux commands training post!

Clyde Boom, http://www.iLearnLinux.com
The Easy Linux Training Guy – Easy, self-paced Linux training – in Plain English!

By: webguyscott

webguyscott — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:34:38 +0000

“But sometimes the command line is still the fastest, easiest, or only way to get something done.”

Abraham , by the above statment , I believe you are referring to Linux. In all these years , working with Windows, there hasn’t been one instance where I had to use the command Prompt (Or maybe I just dont remember) ….

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By: Anonymous Coward

Anonymous Coward — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:05:49 +0000

Very good, although basic, introduction. Folks, the terminal (as it is known in the Unix world) is a powerful tool. Be careful when entering any commands, especially when you just copy & paste them off the web. There are people out there willing to screw you over. Just look at the thread from the Ubuntu forums. http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?a=54 Also, most distributions (and OS X) use the same shell. It's usually bash (bourne again shell) or, more rarely, tcsh (TENEX c shell). Finally, there are some tutorials from the official Linux website. Mind you, I haven't tried them myself, but they're official. http://www.linux.org/lessons/