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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27@CharlesDarwin
Oh. Were you born knowing UNIX?
This is a great place to start for people that are new to *NIX OS's, and would like to know how to do everything from the command line, as well as the GUI.
also,
root@digg.com:~$ rm -R ../users/CharlesDarwin/ - dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21you're wrong. this is the ultimate tutorial that allows you to become an expert in 10 minutes. by 6PM PST tonight the entire profession of unix sys admins will be obliterated by this singular, amazing tutorial.
- sugardaddy4242, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20This list would be very useful to print out and use as a reference.
- rhfb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14@ CharlesDarwin not everyone is a Unix guru. I know that this list would help me if I ever needed or wanted to use Unix.
- alok0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13that was the point, what help would a guide for experts be?
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. - litolist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Well it's certainly not enough to master it, but a great reference for people who ocassionally use it or who are just starting out. Back when I was in school I had no desire to learn it, but was required, just so I can copy files to a professor's home directory.
- Raaben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Great find! Handy for people like me who forget all this stuff.
- ryguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5WOW! Your dad is an electronic man!?!? :o
- Peat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'll be there in 5 minutes! I've still got half of unix to learn.
- wyrlor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Nice overview of the important commands.
- gavreh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Very useful! I've been trying to get into UNIX shell commands, and this is a great reference for me. Thanks!
- coachace, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Brain surgery ISN'T a community college certificate program??? Damn! And I was just 12 units away from my AA!
- ryguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is great!
I'm almost done "learn vi in 1 minute"; when i'm done i'll start on this! - ryguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4How about on your fridge?
- jimmiejaz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Handy reference for my mother, for when I'm not around to help her out. Wont learn UNIX, but will get the hang of some basic commands.
- litolist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Nice find, this'll be great for some of the techs at my work!
- opethlike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nice,
I have to limp along in UNIX at work and this is a good reference to reinforce knowledge.
Thanks - harrisonpowers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Perfect starting-off point for myself. Thanks a lot!
- ahill7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i agree that its a good reference, i needed some basics on vi and reg expressions and its not like this is the "end all be all guid" for unix/linux/bash. digg.
- lashray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah, learn UNIX in 10 minutes, learn MySql in 24 hours, learn C in 12 easy steps! *****!
The article is a good reference, learn UNIX in 10 minutes==brain surgery is a community college certificate program. - spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice. I should have pointed my dad to this last night after I just installed Ubuntu on his machine. Instead I spent 20mins explaining Unix security codes to him. And this is to an electronics man who knows that 15 can be written as "15" or as "1111". Still, a difficult task.
- Smoov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reminds me of when I paid $39 to learn how to play the saxaphone in 12 minutes.
It worked! Best $39 I ever spent since I now back the Rolling Stones. - JQP123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Personally, I think www.linuxcommand.org is a better reference for the newbie. More complete and includes examples.
Why doesn't someone with too much time on their hands put all this into a nice pdf that can be printed out as a quick reference card? - culbeda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I certainly hope the overly bland presentation was for lynx compatibility. (Although they could have splurged and used a couple of fonts that don't make it look QUITE so HTML 1.0.)
And I'd hardly call this "learn Linux in 10 minutes" as it's mearly a reference. I'd call it the "Handy Essential Linux Pocket Reference" or HELPR. (no relation to HELPeR) And as such, I would include a version in a handy table format for printing.) - ramprage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0more shell commands at http://www.webhostgear.com/35.html
- JesusofOcala, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kind of old. Still good! Dugg!
- mydave, on 07/30/2008, -0/+0you can print this page and use. very good thing. thanks!
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http://www.masjidmuhammad.com - dmron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3That's a good list of useful CLI commands, but I'd hardly call it learning UNIX in ten minutes. Learning implies remembering - this is just a cheatsheet.
- soapboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The article is simple, text-only, and moves at a pretty quick pace. It is definately a good place for users interested in Unix to get started. After that, I would suggest other online reading material or even a pocket guide for quick references.
Plus, it never hurts to read the man and info pages for all utilities. They are actually helpful ! - socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wish I had read this a few years ago....Linux Complete was a bore :P
- aphexcoil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nobody is going to become "proficient" (i.e. able to be a sysadmin for a unix network) by reading this or any other how-to article. Want to know the secret?
Read stuff like this and find a cheap box you can install linux on and PRACTICE. I guarantee you that if you practice with linux a few hours each week, in a couple months you'll have enough knowledge to at least muddle your way through more complicated network / OS issues.
Practice makes perfect! These articles are always great to read but the real way to learn this is to actually practice these commands on a live machine.
Thanks -- dugg! - ho0ber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I doubt you'll find a consensus, as being proficient is still a vague term. Is being proficient simply being able to operate a basic user account? or to troubleshoot and make scripts? or to have the ability to set up and administer a system?
That aside, I do think that the right kind of mind with some general computer experience (especially if a little bit of programming experience) could be able to use a UNIX system with the aid of this guide in ten minutes, but that use would be quite limited. On the other side of things, I know people who can happily enjoy their simple use of Windows or Macintosh operating systems, but who would perhaps never be proficient with UNIX.
So the short answer is "depends." - inversecow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This makes for a great reference, and a great intro. Reading this alone certainly does not make one a master Unix Wizard, but as they say, each journey starts with the first step.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Cheatsheets are the best way to learn in the end. Eventually no matter how much you look at the Vi cheatsheet to begin with your eventually going to learn that :q! exits the program discarding changes and decide not to look at the cheatsheet next time.
- spamdies, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2rmCharlesDarwin -rfv
your not going to learn linux and 10 minutes, no way - GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yeah redirecting to /dev/null is much more stylish.
- hass, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1If only it were that easy. I've been working on it for about a month now.
- finite, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Though this is clearly not a useful document for pro unix operators, it also would wouldn't teach an actual fscking noob a fscking thing about UNIX.
Reported as inaccurate, as this isn't a guide that could teach anyone unix in any amount of time much less 10 minutes.
It might be a handy reference for someone with a foggy memory of having already learned UNIX. - thund3rstruck, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"root@digg.com:~$ rm -R ../users/CharlesDarwin/"
now that's lame.... - xuperuber, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Dugg to death.
- Chip_whitly, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4I seen this before on digg. Its still a good site though.
- bacirriu, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Apparently people now are too stupid to read READMEs or man pages. Learn the RIGHT way. The man pages are right there. apropos will help you pick the right commands.
- ryguy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3You "seen" it before hey? Perhaps "I've seen" or "I saw this once before"?
- Octave, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Useful reference, agreed, however I wonder what the consensus is in the amount of time it takes to become proficient at UNIX? From personal experience, it has taken me a lot longer than just 10 minutes and a quick 'how to' and I still do not consider myself proficient.
- Butros, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2I'm sorry but when I read Darwin's comment, I found it to be completely hilarious. Must be because it's 5 pm. It reminded me of Triumph the insult dog comic. It was truly a great reply... for me to poop on!
- towner, on 10/12/2007, -17/+7Sorry!
Don't think ten minutes is enough time to dedicate to learning UNIX, even with the help of this 'tutorial - CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3What can I say? I fscking hate noobs.
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -86/+5for a fscking noob!
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