CLI for Noobies

Section 1: In the shell

1. what the hell is a shell?
2. alias, grep, and pipe
3. file this
4. man for hier
5. everything’s a file
6. more or less
7. mother, may I?
8. directory assistance, may I help you?
9. whatis apropos
10. background, foreground, suspend
11. watch it
12. sudo voodoo
13. test this
14. not your father’s batch
15. need redirection?
16. sort of bragging
17. symbolic links
18. taming a wild mount
19. sharing more with sysctl
20. pimp your prompt
21. environmental issues
22. getting on top of things
23. who sed that?
24. shutdown
25. ldconfig and friends
26. locate, slocate, and rlocate
27. information, please
28. GNU find
29. lsof
30. shell programming
Section 2 – Applications and Utilites

31. melting and making tarballs
32. the magic mantra
33. got backup?
34. when’s her birthday?
35. what day is this?
36. CheckInstall
37. hack the comment
38. lay down the law with edict
39. hdparm and the Zen of data transfer
40. hexdump unlocks mysteries
41. Ispell
42. surfing with lynx
43. a little Mirdir, my dear?
44. import, display, and mogrify
45. play nice
46. saywhat, saytime
47. antiword
48. looking for strings in all the wrong places
49. extreme term makeover
50. the unknown chapter

Section 3 – Networking and Security

51. ping, can you dig it?
52. ftp, do you get it?
53. the keys to GnuPG
54. ifconfig
55. netcat
56. OpenSSH
57. passwd and passwords
58. John the Ripper
59. route
60. sending and reading secret mail
61. sign this
62. tcpdump
63. the word on wget
64. rsync for backups
65. trojanscan

Section 4 – Fun and Games

66. aldo talks in code
67. three clocks
68. have fun with ESR
69. let’s go
70. mmmmm pizza