Presentation from 2014-01-13 Charm City Linux meeting.

1. 10 THINGS I’VE LEARNED ABOUT LINUX
SINCE STARTING AT STAQ
OR WHAT THE NEWLY CONVERTED MIGHT FIND HELPFUL

2. LEARNING THE TRICKS IS HARD
You don’t know what you don’t know.
You think everyone knows what you know.

3. MY LINUX EXPERIENCE
High School
• CLI
• Pine
• Talk
College
• C++
• X-Windows
Post-College
• Almost
Nothing
Now
• Learn
ALL THE
THINGS

4. INSTALLATION
VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org/
Guest Additions - https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html
0

5. COMMUNITY
Ask Ubuntu - http://askubuntu.com/
Explain Shell - http://explainshell.com/
1

6. LESS
GNU Less - http://www.gnu.org/software/less/
2

7. PUSHD/POPD
3
The Command Line Crash Course http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex8.html

8. GREP
4
grep – http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/

9. ALIASES
5
Aliases - http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/aliases.html

10. BASH SCRIPTS
6
Beginners/Bash Scripting –
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners/BashScripting
The Ultimate Bash Array Tutorial with 15 Examples http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/06/bash-array-tutorial/

11. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
7
Environment Variables –
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables
Class: ENV (Ruby 2.0.0) - http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/ENV.html

12. RUNNING COMMANDS FROM WITHIN RUBY
%x(xls2csv -x '#{xls_filename}' -c '#{csv_filename}')
8
Running Command Line Commands Within Ruby Scripts –
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3159945/running-command-linecommands-within-ruby-script

13. SSL CERTS
9
Certificates –
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/certificates-andsecurity.html

14. QUESTIONS
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