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Topics for the Command Line Presentation for Newbies

Part 1: Command Line

  1. Opening a terminal. (The Terminal Icon on KDE)

  2. Exiting from a terminal. (exit or the X button)

  3. The Command Loop

  4. cd

  5. pwd

  6. ls

    • Flags: -l -a -R

  7. mkdir

  8. cp

    • Flags: -r -i -f

  9. mv

    • Flags: -i -f

  10. rm

    • Flags: -r -i -f

  11. wildcards and their use (*, ?, [ ])

  12. less/more

    1. Quitting with q

    2. Next Page with space/Page-Down

    3. Previous Page with b/Page-Up

    4. To the end with >

    5. To the beginning with <

    6. One line down with Down-Arrow/j

    7. One line up with Up-Arrow/k

    8. Moving Sideways: Right-Arrow/Left-Arrow

    9. Searching with / (forward) and ? (backward)

  13. kdehelp

  14. man

  15. makewhatis + apropos

  16. The “--help” and “-h” switches.

  17. find

    • Flags: -name

  18. Piping:

    • >

    • |,

    • 2>&1

  19. Shell Goodies:

    • The command history (up and down arrows)

    • TAB filename completion

    • Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E, ALT-F, ALT-B

Part 2: Job Control / Interaction With X

  1. Ctrl+Z

  2. Ctrl+C

  3. &

  4. bg

Part 3: vi

  1. Invoking vi (vi/vim/gvim)

  2. Exiting (:q and :q!)

  3. Saving the file (:w)

  4. Moving around:

    • The Arrow Keys + h-j-k-l

  5. Adding text (i/a) and getting back to command mode (ESC)

  6. Deleting text:

    • x/DEL

    • dd

  7. Advanced movement commands:

    • 0 and $

    • gg and G

    • digits + movement

  8. Getting help: (:help)

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