Linux/macOS Basis

Resources

You may refer to one of those resources to learn more about Linux.

• UNIX Tutorial for Beginners: One of the most popular online tutorials by electronic engineers

• Introduction to Unix: by Andrew Newman (a geophysics professor at Georgia Tech)

• Introduction to Computing: by Peter Shearere (a geophysics professor at USCD)

• Basics of Linux and the vim editor: by Dr. Allen McNamara (a geophysics professor at MSU EES)

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education: 中文版

• The Linux Command Line: 中文版 (Github翻译项目) | 中文版 (看云)

• Linux 101: by USTC LUG (recommended)

• Linux学习笔记: by 华为工程师 (提取码 7v19)

• 鸟哥的 Linux 私房菜 (CentOS): 基础学习篇 第三版 | 基础学习篇 第四版

Checklist

Below is a checklist of what you should know about Linux/macOS and command lines:

1. Familiar with the file system, and especially the HOME directory

2. Commands for files and directories: cd, ls, pwd, mkdir, rmdir, cp, rm, mv

3. Commands for files: cat, touch, head, tail, which

4. Meaning of file permissions rwx and chmod command

5. Absolute paths and relative paths

6. The environment variable PATH

7. Understand what’s purpose of file ~/.bashrc

8. How to use input/output redirection >, >>, <<

9. How to use PIPE |

10. How to use wildcards ?, *, [] to match mutiple files or directories

11. How to compress and uncompress files using tar, gzip, bzip2

12. Command for data processing awk, cut, grep, wc, sort, uniq

13. What is a Shell (bash/csh) script? https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-what-is-shell.htm

14. Learn the vim editor, which is the only text editor available on Linux servers.