Bash and the Terminal for Absolute Noobs

This will be part of a series. I go over the basics of basic shell commands, including key bindings using readline and basic glob matching, options/tags/switches and aliases and the bashrc.
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[@LukeSmithxyz]

I mentioned that there's a difference between shell, bash, the terminal, etc. If you want to know what they all mean, I did a video explaining it a bit ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nn62c6yse62CqNE

[@DanielCsend2adaniel]

Would love to see a follow up video for new people like me

[@MrDCrosswell]

What's a prompt?

[@SpiritualBattle2k]

Some of those commands were very familiar (I used to use DOS when I was a kid)

[@finnk1289]

That's what I thought this video would be, so thanks for the link

[@AtomToast]

Small anecdote: If you ever wondered why ~ means home, that's because on older keyboards the ~ and the "home" key were placed one the same key.

[@Artixou]

wew you learn something new everyday

[@ndrechtseiter]

@Вероника Заглотова не ожидал увидеть самого лучшего постера тредшота на видео лысого двм-бумера

[@spot1401]

Where should we put the "@" on a german layout keyboard? - What about...... Q!

[@Skeleton-wn2zu]

@@spot1401 Wait, really?

[@spot1401]

@@Skeleton-wn2zu AltGr + Q to be precise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key

[@WafflesOinc]

Finally a video that represents me

[@redd_cat]

@@apestogetherstrong341 it was cancelled due to the sweet and sour sickin

[@infinitelink]

That'll do pig.

[@davidmouse4486]

18:30 Files *are* overwritten by default in `cp` even without `-f`. The `-n` flag prevents this and the `-i` flag prompts the user, but by default a file *will* be overwritten. A small example: ``` user@host:~/test$ echo "This is file 1" > file1 user@host:~/test$ echo "This is file 2" > file2 user@host:~/test$ cp file1 file2 user@host:~/test$ cat file2 This is file 1 ``` This explanation suggests that you use an alias to make this *your* default behavior, but it certainly isn't the default and doesn't even occur with the additions you made to the `.bashrc` in the video.

[@Zaurthur]

>says he hates making Linux util videos literally yesterday >Going to make biggest brain content off KZbin >Posts another Linux tutorial on KZbin Absolutely based

[@Klayperson]

Luke: "Linux sucks, I'm tired of doing linux videos" Luke:

[@cookiedestroyer402]

I actually know quite a bit about Bash and the terminal, I've just be watching Luke vids since 2017 and autistically have to continue. Anyone else?

[@lonelybishop6659]

2:51 I thought using arrow keys was illegal

[@zacharytheliar]

only in vim

[@tent405]

i just put cnoremap q in my vimrc and life has never been better

[@SimGunther]

@@tent405 No macros? Mkay then...

[@EffToyz]

It is, only C-r is allowed.

[@markusdottling3556]

ctrl+p and ctrl+n substitute the use of the arrow keys

[@keveinkevin4422]

Shouldve used ubuntu or windows for this video. Normies get scared if it looks different on their screen

[@tokiomutex4148]

Debian has less bloat out of the box.

[@keveinkevin4422]

@@tokiomutex4148 normies love bloat

[@tokiomutex4148]

@@keveinkevin4422 Not all of them.

[@heartlessalice5801]

@@tokiomutex4148 face it if u don't love bloat u are not a normie ^^

[@DB-nl9xw]

More tutorials like this. You are an amazing teacher. Teach us Suckless.

[@paulo9523]

Luke just got from the GNU/Advanced stuff to the basics, is this a side effect from time travelling with vim?

[@blackrastafarian]

Meditation my friend, meditation makes people realize how important the basic is. Have you seen how Luke finds Jesus with Linux yet?

[@wes2091]

Thanks, Luke. I have been trying to teach my girlfriend the terminal on her Mac for months, but you definitely did a better job of explaining what I was trying to. I am excited for later videos, because she is someone who very much just wants to use her computer, and I noticed the biggest barrier keeping her from learning more is that she doesn't see the benefit of using the terminal for any of her work over just using the GUI. She writes a lot of MATLAB, reads research papers in PDF, and does bookkeeping in Excel.

[@bograham6221]

Since I'm not an absolute noob, I'm looking forward to any follow-up videos. Thanks for helping all the people who wanna get started with the terminal!

[@WafflesOinc]

Btw, thank you Luke for spearing some of your time to teach us. I really appreciate it ☺️

[@alexradu1921]

This doesn't look like a complete begginer video.. but that's why I stayed.. damn I've learned so much even if I knew half of commands. Thank you.

[@shashu1999]

There are hundreds of getting started with bash videos but something new to learn in every one of them

[@jorar91]

Thanks Luke, now all of your other videos kind of make sense

[@lsatenstein]

Hi Luke I have a C use question that you may be interested Consider #include FILE *f; f = stdout; stdout=fopen("SomeRandomFile",w); fprintf(stdout, "this is a line of text "); later fclose (stdout); stdout=f; In other words, programmatically, redirect stdout to point to some file, and if necessary, before exiting, restore stdout. I like this idea better than doing bash redirection some_program >SomeRandomFile; FYI, I will be trying it within a day or so.

[@skyworm8006]

>up arrow for previous commands i know this one from minecraft

[@aj35lightning]

thanks for this, been using linux and terminal for probably two years now and still was able to come away with some gaps of my knowledge filled

[@sh4rksh4d0vv]

I already know what's being covered, I just watch 4 Luke

[@aceflamez00]

Woah luke has a Unix beard now :O

[@Aleksandar0100]

Add this to your .bashrc for maximum comfort. alias mansplain='man' alias please='sudo !!'

[@senorstrangelov]

The only command I knew before this video was the up arrow to perform last command. Thank you.

[@aengle.]

Very nice Luke, even as a long time GNU/Linux user, I never actually knew about ctrl-l before. I always used to just use clear && [commands]

[@Rudyok0001]

I think even for people who know stuff, this kind of videos is helpful too. There are a lot of things that one could take for granted, or just skip it, whatever the reason. There isn't enough educational content on the internet, even when there is. Lol

[@kunt230]

Thank you luke, needed this got a laptop yesterday and already pissed at windows so i deleted c disk and just use Linux because vbix crashed all the time . Im a noob so im not very experienced in the terminal emulator and was just signing into firefox and youtube after first - Syu. And this was on the top of my yt page so thanks for making my linux experience a bit more pleasant and my day a bit better.

[@user-up2rp6nz5h]

Congrats for getting off cursed win10! You can check out Proton for games it’s really good, onlyoffice is a nice and simple opensource office suit compatible with ms office, optimus-manager if you have problems with nvidia graphics

[@technocrats2360]

I have watched a lot of tutorials on KZbin but they just stick to the book and i was looking for this kind of tutorial explaining in deep with shortcuts.Waiting for intermediate and advanced tutorial to.

[@akojic5486]

You can type shell commands in Emacs eshell. Emacs eshell is written all in elisp so you can configure it how you want it.

[@davejoubert3349]

Another command useful at this stage is apropos Especially useful if you know the action, but do not know (or have forgotten) the actual command.

[@MrDeni23n]

I love that you have these tidbits of useful information. I have just started out using Linux and I've watched quite a few vids, but no one has mentioned the double Tab to show what is in the directory. edited: redundancy

[@BCDeshiG]

27:11 NGL I thought you were gonna alias rm to 'rm -rf /' for a second

[@obsidiansiriusblackheart]

12:20: "No news is good news" Linux philosophy

[@sayanghosh6996]

you can also type "cd - " to go back to the previous directory (not the parent directory, the directory you previously were in, think of it like the back button in a file explorer)

[@user-qi2kt8ow5r]

👍

[@EverydaySimulations]

As I’m learning this things, I find it that I’m relying on using the ‘awk’ command quite a bit. I would personally appreciate it if you could make a quick tips and trick video showing how to effectively use it

[@pebbles2046]

OMFG the Vim Diesel is using goonoo nANo?!?!

[@kristiyanivanov7414]

You have the Windows Bliss wallpaper, that's cute. It's a good wallpaper btw.

[@GNU_Linux_for_good]

29:13 Many beginners want to know - _what commands_ does GNU/Linux actually have implemented, and _how many are they_ ? (because: first of all, I gonna need those command names in order to use *man* ). Well - the completion function comes in handy. Just type the letter *a* and hit *TAB-key* and you'll get an overview of all commands, starting with 'a'. Go down the alphabet, and you get the idea.

[@tstrandberg666]

"Sometimes you just wanna delete something."

[@ashutoshmisra4]

I wanted to try all this on my newly installed linux, so I rebooted my windows. And now I have watched 10s of your videos but windows is still updating. One of the main reasons i switched. Also, for fun.

[@JimDragonBass]

26:30 This image is cursed

[@mohammedburhan5766]

I can see that you have been practicing Pronouncing Asterisk

[@RaivoDoc]

Luke seems genuinely noob/normie-friendly here.

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

He forgot to teach how to install Linux. If you're a Windows user, just delete system32 and Linux will be installed automatically.

[@wilsonjholmes]

@@censoredterminalautism4073 Yes! Thank you! Will try once I get home from work tonight. /s

[@arcade5765]

@@wilsonjholmes bait?

[@joemulhern]

Usually here for the unaboomer manifesto rants, but love these videos. Would like to see a video going over how to “approach” questions in Linux on your own (reading man pages, deciphering documentation standards) so I don’t have a thousand half-useful stack overflow tabs open again

[@mansourq6512]

I love your stuff Luke, THUMBS up as usual

[@creonte38]

How Nice this vídeo, I say hi to you my friend from Brazil. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. You are a really special guy.

[@anatolystepanovichdyatlov1747]

Fash the Bash

[@b1rdy0xf]

i like the nice Luke.

[@keltyll]

great video, looking forward to part 2

[@arkadianriver]

Well done, as usual! Something I can refer ppl to. I like man -k or apropos to search, too, but with the web these days maybe not as useful as it used to be

[@beetx5]

let's be real , you only use the terminal to flex on your normie friends

[@HungNguyen-lz5xb]

No I'm not. I have no friend.

[@Oguzalp97]

@Leif so what you are saying is that autism is your best friend

[@vvill-ga]

I really did just watch a 31 minute video about stuff I already knew because I thought I was an absolute noob when I wasn't... Now to watch the slightly more advanced video I guess...

[@Justanoobcoder]

26:38 lol I didn't expect to see you use nano like this

[@DanielCsend2adaniel]

Part 2 please ,

[@s1ll1m3hu]

Please always explain what the commands are short for. Like what ls means and what man is short for. Atleast I remember them a lot better if I can connect the short command to a relevant word.

[@glitch3dout]

pwd stands for print working directory. ls stands for list. man stands for manual. cd stands for change directory. cp stands for copy. mv stands for move. mkdir stands for make directory. rm stands for remove. rmdir stands for remove directory. touch stands for uhm touch?

[@mxhectorvega]

luke, there is a big problem with libxft-bgra it is totally broken in AUR it is impossible to install like libxft-bgra-bin, help! No new installs of the LARBS script will be done without that lib.

[@mxhectorvega]

Help

[@runclubcity7529]

thankyou luke.

[@konstantinosgkoutzis1554]

I like that webcam angle, just short of showing the baldness :^)

[@mark123rus]

Please make more of this!

[@AdventureTimeWithAsh]

OMG yessss

[@craterface12]

This channel is amazing

[@testname2166]

The power of Linux is that It's an OS that train the User...

[@DrethPlusPlus]

As a filthy zoomer, I'm glad you made this video recently decided to learn bash, glad you of all people made this video as my 2 second attention span isn't good enough for other tutorials.

[@majorgamerjay5221]

5 minutes since it's uploaded, 14th comment, its 2:06 am, video is 30 minutes, video I will watch, trivago is hotel

[@ReviewBlogVlog]

Drugs don't do

[@ViniciusProvenzano]

How cool is it to teach bash while running Zsh...

[@travishopkins6076]

Gardening tutorials when!

[@AlY-sn9bz]

Thanks Luke!

[@puriwatw.1323]

You should start with teaching how to create files before copy or moving them. Most people might be just like me who just installed the OS and didn't have any files in computer.

[@wiredbeats9058]

windows_bliss.jpg

[@pawelskorupski]

Great video.

[@censoredterminalautism4073]

Someone only officially becomes a Unix user after forgetting where they are and accidentally nuking their entire home directory with rm -rd *.

[@gaonkarprajwal]

Luke, How did you get your man pages to display in colour.?

[@Justanoobcoder]

Check out LESS export lines in this file github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/blob/master/.zprofile

[@Sankaritarina89]

Actually I'm turning on this video to see what luke knows about it haha

[@neo778]

Since WSL, welcome to Bash in Windows!

[@GNU_Linux_for_good]

28:35 yeah - except those maniacs who run *emacs*

[@ricardonunes709]

next, a video about regex..please! thks

[@unh0lys0da16]

What OS do you recommend for living from the wild?

[@kunt230]

Build a mechanical pc in the woods and program your own unix-like kernel and personally let stallman license your newly created os.

[@unh0lys0da16]

@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321 Yeah I'll just stick with Hannah Montana Linux for now, though I have considered switching to Linux for *redacted*

[@xdptwin1]

where is your wallpaper from. Awesome video thanks.

[@ChasingFoodStamps]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@zyptoskid]

based

[@limitless1692]

``` $ rm * ``` Only seeng the 2 characters togheter with an star give me goose bumps! Hhahahah

[@turkucpodjadek2347]

cd code cd.. cd.. cd .. ls cd code

[@c.deg.7982]

Koding with Karlie will never die.

[@faridvicente7783]

finally

[@emre5614]

>mfw screencast file's name is `screencast-200604-0835-51.mp4` this luke bloke could really see into the future huh

[@BigBahss]

Great video, I'll be recommending this to a friend, but no sudo???

[@adamt4110]

Terminator: Noobs Day

[@illiiilli24601]

Nice, the auto-captions are in Korean

[@h.b.5577]

Wait how did that happen?!?

[@illiiilli24601]

@@h.b.5577 clearly it's because luke is speaks Korean in this video

[@obsidiansiriusblackheart]

Do a full vid on man (how to follow through links in man, etc)

[@stevew270]

ls, Let's see. 🙃

[@GNU_Linux_for_good]

15:34 Hm.. but beware, folks: *regular expressions* is a HUGE topic, that's not in the scope of this video.

[@michaelrelly1243]

My system doesn't have a manual entry for the cd command. why not? I'm curious.

[@hibernian87]

Whats an easy way of cding to a directory you just moved a bunch of pictures to? Just to see if theyre there or process them some more.

[@twb0109]

Oh god, I've been removing directories with "rm -rf" for 2 years ._.

[@BurgerKingHarkinian]

Well yeah, so have I. What are you planning to replace it with? rmdir is only for empty dirs after all.

[@twb0109]

Yeah, i just noticed, i usually don't remove empty folders tho xd

[@MattyFez]

You should have had the keypress on screen display up

[@danil_braun]

What program do you use to display pressed keys on the screen? Seen in some of your other videos.

[@astralchan]

~ is an implementation of the shell (you can check the $SHELL variable) for the current user's home directory. Doing [user@host ~]$ su && echo ~ you can see the directory for the root user. To be independent of the shell, one can just use the $HOME variable for that user. Example: [user@host ~]$ ls $HOME [user@host ~]$ cd $HOME/pix etc. . refers to the current directory. Nice to know if you want to say, add everything in your current directory to a git repo or something. [user@host ~]$ git add . Or, (some shells) execute a file: [user@host ~]$ chmod u+x && ./script.sh

[@ryanharp5352]

Based.

[@EllaT7935]

Why is the only caption option on the video Korean.....

[@senninscorpion]

At the beginning of the video, you mentioned mac And later you said that if you didn't know what you're using, you're probably using bash I think mac is going to switch (or already did) the default to zsh

[@gabrielr9348]

cool

[@gabrielr9348]

first I guess