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For those looking for a more powerful text editor than Nano, but not as difficult to learn as vi, the built-in text editor of the Midnight Commander file explorer is extremely good.
Does it make you feel like a big 1337 hax0r to have been born knowing all UNIX commands. I mean, since you were never a beginner, you must've been bred in some Huxelian hatchery where they chemical implanted all of your uber-skills. Shut up and get back down to your parent's basement.
It is more or less impossible to replace some commands. How would you do a pipeline in the GUI? In GUI systems, people would need specialized applications to do the same thing as a *nix pipeline made up of a bunch of commands can do.
Noobs can get up to speed with vi/vim as easy as they can with nano.Just explain the concept of command mode vs. insert mode.Let them know how to switch between modes, edit files and save. It's really not all that much harder than nano, it's just that the commands aren't listed at the bottom of the window like nano, and they are less intuitive.I agree wholeheartedly to learn vi or vim instead of bothering with nano, because if you are going to have any kind of career in *nix administration, you are going to log into a box one day that doesn't have nano, but I haven't seen one yet that doesn't have vi or some vi clone.
While most systems that are GUI based should be starting X automatically for you, it's good for noobs to know that they can launch the GUI with 'startx' if they find themselves logging into a system set to runlevel 3.It seems easy to us, but look at it from the noob perspective.
That's not entirely universal. Some systems would use the "service" command to bring up Apache. There's also a strong likelihood of it being brought up by issuing a command like:/etc/init.d/httpd startOnce you've got it up and running, apachectl is a great tool. But oh yeah, that's also not universal, because it is apache2ctl on a lot of newer systems that have Apache 2.
OT:Digg used to proudly proclaim "LAMP for life." Now they are ditching the M part, just because they don't know how to partition and index their tables properly.Pro tip: Read those monthly MySQL newsletters you get in your email inbox. They are actually pretty good, with all the tutorials at Planet MySQL's network of blogs.
kwilliamAug 21, 2007
For those looking for a more powerful text editor than Nano, but not as difficult to learn as vi, the built-in text editor of the Midnight Commander file explorer is extremely good.
pileAug 21, 2007
OMG, thank you so very much for showing me the command to delete a file and make a directory!What a lame, lame story.
rytakahashiAug 21, 2007
Does it make you feel like a big 1337 hax0r to have been born knowing all UNIX commands. I mean, since you were never a beginner, you must've been bred in some Huxelian hatchery where they chemical implanted all of your uber-skills. Shut up and get back down to your parent's basement.
williebeeAug 21, 2007
CopyPasteThank you.
cawpinAug 21, 2007
threw?
init100Aug 22, 2007
It is more or less impossible to replace some commands. How would you do a pipeline in the GUI? In GUI systems, people would need specialized applications to do the same thing as a *nix pipeline made up of a bunch of commands can do.
leamancMar 14, 2010
Noobs can get up to speed with vi/vim as easy as they can with nano.Just explain the concept of command mode vs. insert mode.Let them know how to switch between modes, edit files and save. It's really not all that much harder than nano, it's just that the commands aren't listed at the bottom of the window like nano, and they are less intuitive.I agree wholeheartedly to learn vi or vim instead of bothering with nano, because if you are going to have any kind of career in *nix administration, you are going to log into a box one day that doesn't have nano, but I haven't seen one yet that doesn't have vi or some vi clone.
leamancMar 14, 2010
While most systems that are GUI based should be starting X automatically for you, it's good for noobs to know that they can launch the GUI with 'startx' if they find themselves logging into a system set to runlevel 3.It seems easy to us, but look at it from the noob perspective.
leamancMar 14, 2010
That's not entirely universal. Some systems would use the "service" command to bring up Apache. There's also a strong likelihood of it being brought up by issuing a command like:/etc/init.d/httpd startOnce you've got it up and running, apachectl is a great tool. But oh yeah, that's also not universal, because it is apache2ctl on a lot of newer systems that have Apache 2.
leamancMar 14, 2010
OT:Digg used to proudly proclaim "LAMP for life." Now they are ditching the M part, just because they don't know how to partition and index their tables properly.Pro tip: Read those monthly MySQL newsletters you get in your email inbox. They are actually pretty good, with all the tutorials at Planet MySQL's network of blogs.