by William Shotts. First Internet Edition Available Now! In this 250+ page sequel/suplement to The Linux Command Line we'll look at even more cool tools and fun command line topics. With 14 action-packed chapters, it's perfect for makers, students, and anyone wanting to learn additional Linux history, techniques, and skills.

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Here is Where the Fun Begins. With the thousands of commands available to the command line user, how can we remember them all? The answer is, we don't.

Directory Permissions. The chmod command can also be used to control the access permissions for directories. Again, we can use the octal notation to set permissions, but the meaning of the r, w, and x attributes is different: r - Allows the contents of the directory to be listed if the x attribute is also set.; w - Allows files within the directory to be created, deleted, or renamed if the x ...

Manual Pages. Here is documentation for many of the commands mentioned on LinuxCommand.org, as well as others. These include: Bash Builtins - commands built into the shell itself; The GNU Coreutils - the essential utilities included with most Linux distributions. These are divided into three groups:

#!/bin/bash # -----# photo2mail - Resize images for use as email attachments # Copyright 2013, William Shotts <bshotts@users.sourceforge.net> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the ...

#!/bin/bash # -----# my_cloud - Store and retrieve files on a remote server # Copyright 2013, William Shotts <bshotts@users.sourceforge.com> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License ...

Mar 20, 2014 · new_script: a bash shell script generator. © 2000-2025, William E. Shotts, Jr. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium ...

#!/bin/bash # -----# program_list - Produce an annotated listing of programs # Copyright 2014, William Shotts <bshotts@users.sourceforge.net> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the ...

Why Bother? Why do you need to learn the command line anyway? Well, let me tell you a story. Many years ago we had a problem where I worked. There was a shared drive on one of our file servers that kept getting full.