Ten Steps to Linux Survival

Table of contents

1. Introduction
   1. Why Are We Here?
   2. Who Is This For?
   3. How to Prepare
   4. Play with It!
   5. Documentation and Instrumentation
   6. Conventions
2. 0. Step 0: Don’t Panic
3. 1. Step 1: Getting In
   1. “sudo make me a sandwich”
4. 2. Step 2: Getting Around
   1. Where Am I?
   2. Listing Files
   3. Changing Directories
   4. Be Lazy
5. 3. Step 3: Peeking at Files
   1. Cool cat
   2. less Is More
   3. tail Wind
6. 4. Step 4: Finding Files
   1. find Files Fast
   2. Location, Location, Location
7. 5. Step 5: Search Me
   1. Getting a grep
8. 6. Step 6: What’s Going On?
   1. It’s All Part of the Process
   2. Who’s on top?
   3. The /proc Directory
   4. Networking
9. 7. Step 7: Filesystems
   1. Displaying Filesystems
   2. Where Did All the Disk Space Go?
10. 8. Step 8: Transferring Files
    1. Secure Copying
    2. Copying to a Windows Share
11. 9. Step 9: Starting and Stopping
    1. Managing Services
    2. Killing a Process
    3. When All Else Fails
12. 10. Step 10: Where to Go for Help
    1. Hey, man
    2. Is That apropos?
    3. Additional Resources
13. 11. The End
14. A. Cheat Sheet
    1. Redirection Command
    2. System Directory Commands
    3. Standard User Commands
    4. System Commands