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A Beginner's Introduction to Command-line Linux

introduction:
1. getting started
2. running commands
3. logical organization of the linux filesystem
4. navigating the filesystem

file and directory commands:
5. directory listings
6. directory commands
7. file commands

creating, saving, printing
8. a very brief introduction to vi
9. saving your files from floppix
10. printing

searching for files:
11. find
12. grep

other users
13. who's on floppix?

redirection, pipes and filters:
14. redirection
15. pipes and filters

managing your account:
16. passwords and permissions
17. umask
18. the search path
19. configuring your account
20. configuring the bash shell
21. process management

working on the Internet:
22. e-mail
23. telnet
24. ftp
25. links: a text web browser

scripting:
26. basic bash scripts

working as superuser:
27. superuser

adding users and groups
28. adding users
29. working with groups

system startup and shutdown:
30. runlevels
31. hardware detection
32. init and inittab
33. rc.d directories

managing the filesystem:
34. format, check, mount
35. archiving and compressing

scheduling:
36. cron

system logs:
37. monitoring system logs
38. configuring syslogd

security:
39. setuid, setgid programs
40. tcpd
41. inetd

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