Basic Linux Tasks

[@chapp85]

No please don't stop repeating yourself. Repeating the same thing over and over again or in this case hearing something over and over again makes you more likely to remember it. Thank you for the video. I found it very helpful.

[@michaelduchac2742]

I was laid off ala Covid in March as a 14 year customer facing support tech. Your instruction videos have been instrumental in my learning path & career development over the past 6 months. I cannot thank you enough for your contributions! Thank you so very much Eli!

[@andrewcarpenter6610]

Honestly, best explanation I've found online. Extremely informative and easy to follow. I'm going to keep going with the videos. Thank you!

[@benjacuna2315]

I'm planning to complete my CompTIA Linux + classes starting this this month until September and pass the LPI certification by the end of this year. Your tutorials were very comprehensive and it helped me a lot to understand and learn Linux. Thank you very much! Learning Linux requires passion for technology and I'm doing it step-by-step as you recommended which is very helpful and effective. Hoping to learn more from your KZbin channel.

[@DavidJKoch]

You're a really good instructor. I've watched three of your videos thus far and they are excellent.

[@WhiteAxl1]

He's 10X better than my teachers!!

[@DavidJKoch]

Raiden Ryu Yes, he knows his material and isn't out to try to impress people with his knowledge, but rather to share it in a way that is deliberately understandable, yet not condescending.

[@DavidJKoch]

Raiden Ryu Yes, he knows his material and isn't out to try to impress people with his knowledge, but rather to share it in a way that is deliberately understandable, yet not condescending.

[@ronniej446]

You are one in a million :). If there will be the same kind of teacher in each school like you I can make sure that all of us will learn .

[@dansfitnessvlog]

This guy is amazing. I learned a lot from Eli before I started my journey in the IT industry back in 2017. I have been jobless for about three years now, but I’m about to apply again for an IT staff position. Several companies require qualifications for a better understanding of Linux or more advanced knowledge. It took me about 4-5 hours to finish all of his 9 video tutorials to wakeup and refresh the learnings i had before. Even though the videos are old, they are still very effective. Thanks Eli! the best!

[@3ds12Game]

I really appreciate your videos man! It's just free school! about a year ago i started dual-booting my Windows 7 with Ubuntu. And a few months ago i stopped dual-booting and used Linux Mint 17 Cinamon as my primary OS. And it was HELL. I ran in all sorts of problems, sometimes it is my fault and sometimes it was the OS's fault. But thanks to a lot of forums and youtubers (including Eli) I was getting more experienced and smarter. Ode to Linux! Yay

[@nikkiellesd]

+Joshua Barendse you should use my boyfriend's distro he created. it is called SlimPup.

[@3ds12Game]

+Nikki L i'll try. Do you have an url to the download page?

[@nikkiellesd]

Joshua Barendse slimpuplinux.sourceforge.net/

[@3ds12Game]

+Nikki L thanks. I'll try it out when i have the time!

[@JuanLopez-dh7qg]

Good job Eli 8 years later and this video is still very helpful to newbies like me. Keep up the great work and thanks for the free knowledge! Subbed¡

[@nsr6489]

I start following Eli after a business failure and I was working in a call centre; just in 2 years time, I am a cyber security analyst and big share of thanks goes to him.

[@chulecito]

Your tutorials are real good for people new to linux, keep them up. One thing that I wanted to add that I haven't seen is that you don't need to type everything, Tab autocompletes.

[@BMAPS]

Commands you included in this session are the fresher's interview questions for System administrator. Great work! Always a fan!

[@scottmahoney8566]

just so everyone knows newer versions of ubuntu such as 14.04 (thats what I use at the time of this post) does not come with tasksel. You have to have use the command sudo apt-get install tasksel. keep in mind this video was made in 2010.

[@srilanka206]

i love this guy Eli...his teaching skills are great as we can understand Tech easily....Cheers!

[@TravisBrown011]

Thanks Eli. You are a great instructor. The admin protocols I learned about Linux came from studying under managers. I wanted to start from the basics, and you have done that. Thanks keep doing what you are doing bro.

[@jorgevillavicencio8243]

Thank so much!! The easy way you have introduced and show to us in the terminal with example clarify to everybody the commands that are written in books or any professor explain at Colleges. Good job Prof. Eli, the Computer Guy.

[@marcopolo-e7h]

Thanks Mr. Eli. I am a total Linux noob but want to learn. Just came across this 13-year old video and thought it must be outdated, but decided to watch it anyway. It took just moments for me to realize that this info/tutorial is actually timeless! Will be definitely watching and absorbing as much as I can from your channel. Liked👍 and subscribed! 😀

[@99neel99]

Eli you are just awesome.! I don't know why am I studying here in my bugging technical college. Wish teachers would have been like you. I wish someday my teachers see you in this video and learn the way to teach students. You are a role model.

[@thiery572]

Thank you. I like you repeat stuffs, so I don't have to pay attention too much to the video (I can watch it while doing something else, like eating), yet it stuck in my head.

[@RavikarnRawal]

After years of this video being published, it still rocks!.. You are Awesome Eli :-) Thanks.

[@JG-ii3zv]

I've taken a look through many videos, expecting nothing from the next one, but you helped me out to figure it the solution to my problem. Obviously I'm noob using this, you are my savior

[@yellowpepsi3]

I was looking for latex help so idk how I ended up here, but ended up watching the whole hour of the lesson. U r really good at what u do

[@Logrowlf]

Dude, the amount of frustration in not knowing it's Q to exit or quit. I've totally been there. Great video, thanks.

[@aircooled356]

Eli, I think a linux update heard your complaint and now the instruction to quit "q" is on the server

[@DefaultUser61]

Coming from someone who didn't know diddly about Linux a few days ago, I just wanted to say thank you +Eli the Computer Guy. These videos are teaching me so much and I can't wait to go through all of them and become a Linux master. At which time I will get a tattoo of a penguin sitting down on my forearm.

[@leonard402]

Dear Eli, you really helped me understand the basics of Linux and the start of my LPIC study. I subscribed immediately after wathing this video. Never seen such a clear explaination as you performed on this video.

[@amicoz]

Excellent class! I have stepped in from Windows world just one hour ago and already have a feeling that I am in Linux world for months! Thanks for making things so simple for someone like me :)

[@rohanofelvenpower5566]

what distro are you using 6 years later?

[@Ensayia]

In your total beginners video you emphasize the great importance of case sensitivity, then when you describe the service commands you write Start, Stop, and Reset all capitalized, which are all invalid commands. Most people would probably catch this, but consistency would be a little less confusing to the absolute newbies. Great videos :D

[@2001missmicha]

Eli, I am so pleased to have stumbled upon your Linux series. I love the concept behind Linux so installed it on my laptop and have been frustrated ever since, lol. Yours is the only lesson series that explains things clearly. My boyfriend tried teaching me some things and it made me want to smote him, hehehe. Your teaching style is perfect - I love how you explain what you're doing and why, and also what the terminology means. I'm now a subscriber!

[@gam85191]

This is the greatest basic linux video I have ever come across. Thank you and good work!

[@gtrent7744]

Still watching in 2019. Thanks for this. Great teaching methods.

[@miltonweinhold6859]

Super man, you're a great teacher. Greetings from Argentina :)

[@mateoelizalde4555]

Supports from Argentina! Thanks for explain slowly and with patience!

[@torquer007]

Super teaching skills. You make it seem very easy with your unique information delivery method. I work as a computer programmer and I am learning allot from you. Thank you for your time and wish you the best.

[@ishratsingh8365]

One thing to note, apt-get only applies to Debian-based distributions. Other distros such as Fedora and Arch use different package managers and use the commands 'yum' and 'pacman,' respectively.

[@elisabethstromback1137]

***** sudo is different in other distros too. He's focusing only on Ubuntu.

[@mohamadkhabazi1094]

He teach excellent. Even for people whose language is not English the training is great and enjoyable

[@milanlukic1]

It's really a pleasure to follow all your presentations. Thanks again.

[@mantasdaskevicius9595]

to simplify a bit: apt is for debian based distros, kali, mint ubuntu, debian it self etc will use apt-get, gentoo distro for example will use emerge

[@nathanac2013]

Wow i havent slept for days and just fell asleep watching this , all the info is common knowledge and its very easy to log in as root in ubuntu js

[@bvowens]

Hi Eli. I just want to say thank you very much for all your time and effort recording and uploading these classes. In particular I appreciate your honesty with regard to the desktop version.

[@brentstevens6228]

Good job Eli...you make a novice user like myself understand the basic Linux tasks in easy to understand language. Excellent tutorial!

[@willb169]

We should remember that Linux is started by a great contribution and then additionally contributed to by others. Kinda like Eli making these awesome vids and others simply contributing further knowledge. I don't think anyone meant offense, even if many of us are a bit rough around the edges with manors, myself included. Great vids, Eli. Thanks :-)

[@audiophilekuno]

Thank you so much Eli. I'm in the Philippines. You're really a lot of help for someone who's very novice with Linux.

[@walkwithusnow]

eli your the man,.ive watched alot of linux beginner vids..but yours are so much better, your explanations with the tech stuff are so much easier to understand. I have learnt alot from your videos, from servers,switches,linux,hacking etc…even your turning 40 video made me laugh (as im 42) I could totally relate……keep up the good work.

[@stanleygono7129]

Yeah he's really a great teacher. I started following him since 2012, and I have learning a lot from his videos

[@jg3777]

Eli, thank you so much for these videos, i am learning a lot and you're very in-depth which really makes all difference. Keep it up!

[@reulrich]

Eli..I value your videos and your clear, easy to understand style.

[@czarkingvee3261]

I'm learning so much from you eli in both windows and linux, such a great teachee

[@MartinJaszczuk]

This was an incredibly valuable video! Thank you for creating this!

[@neugenesenior6291]

Thank you for speaking in clear, understandable, English! One of my biggest issues with videos is there are so many with unrecognizable accents attempting to assist and the video has low volume or gibberish.

[@MegaDenie]

It was very helpful, I just got linux a few years ago and i am not really as good but this is something to me. keep posting more video clips. u r helping a lot of people.

[@jonwilob6458]

Hi Eli. I think you are one of the most understandable speakers I've heard in a long while and I'm sure it's because of your voice not "trailing off" at the end of a sentence. Paul Harvey was famous for this speaking technique. So many speakers today start a sentence loudly and then a second or two before they finish the sentence their voice trails off into the sunset.........It seems like everyone on television is guilty of this. If anything a sentence should end with MORE VOLUME than it begins with. BTW great presentation.

[@jn1mrgn]

Great video, but 43:01 that's a forward slash not a backslash :)

[@TheLawnWebnut]

Wow, 10 years later, still very interesting and informative.

[@andrewTaylorCodes]

Linux was created in 1991 not 1994. sudo is often referred to as super user do, but actually means switch user do. Along with the su command. SU allows you to switch users. Executing su without arguments defaults to "switch user to root".

[@RussTeeTrombone]

Andrew Taylor good stuff. Thanks

[@BesideTheVoid]

What is your justification for using the term LUI? No meaning, origin, nor fields of use are readily available from an internet search for LUI. CLI (command line interface) is a common term, used in both IT and software development.

[@RyosukeTaniguchi]

Thanks! It's great you provide the related idea in Windows... I'm sure many people are good in Windows, but just new to Linux. May be a great version of training is "Linux for Windows users" (or may be you already have something..) Keep up the great work!!

[@nickthompson4182]

Thanks for posting these classes. I'm loving these videos. I'm new to this stuff, but I'm learning, and you're a big help! Thanks

[@cagmadhigeguray255]

thanks a million your videos really help me i've got 9 of your videos and now am gonna download all of your videos so that i can be like you as much as i can thanks

[@boliussa]

At 43:35 you talk of linux and cd /abc as going to /etc$ (yep), and then you oddly suggest that in windows it'd go into the abc subdirectory.. in fact windows would do the same. cd \abc will go to c:\abc always, wherever you are. Great video though, beginning with what you did. I didn't know about tasksel and top and great how you have the slide up in between each topic so i can browse through easily. And great how you go "real world" giving the intro to what will be done, then to the machine. Totally impressive style. Beautifully done.

[@Hurricane0610]

Very good. i think i understand now linux, without your class i wouldn't.

[@sulimanelmoghira7789]

you are amazing in explanation really I understood every single word you spelled out ,thank you so much god bless you

[@Figgbot247]

The linux terminal is incredibly powerful, I use what is known as xmonad and almost never use a graphical application. I love your videos, and I like that you pointed out the power of the clui, as opposed to the many guis of linux!

[@goldenhell9]

Quick tip! Try installing htop (sudo apt-get install htop) and use that instead of top. It's much nicer looking, and easier to use.

[@TheAnkMan]

Hope it's okay I add some corrections here. Linux was not conceived in 1994 but 1991. apt-get upgrade needs apt-get update before. You missed aptitude which would list all programs you have or could install, thus no need to do a web search if you want to locate a program. apt-get then is Debian (Ubuntu, Mint...). Other distributions for example Suse, Fedora... have different commands to install packages than apt-get. Instead of "/etc/init.d/apache 2 start" you usually use "service apach2 start" in Ubunto (not necessarily other distributions). You also wrote "Restart" which doesn't work. It's "restart". Linux differentiates between caps or not as you later also demonstrate. Although "/etc/init.d/... start" also works. Overall the volume really differs between when you are at the board and at the computer that I have to adjust it every time (not to annoy my neighbor's using Windows ;-). The web server directory is never under /etc as you said (/etc/var/www) unless you create this. It's in /var/www usually.

[@antiphantom_1]

Wow man you really know your stuff.. I just recently installed ubuntu 14.04 onto my new laptop. Accidently erased my windows 10 but whatever. Im teaching myself this stuff with videos like yours and books so i can get this job and start a real career in something i like. Defintally gonna be watching the rest of your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@MrStraightahead]

I've decided to learn Linux from basic noob to some sense of a 'fair' ability to feel at home with it. After so many years of Windows since 3.1 I've learned to hate where MS is going with their OS's. Great introductory lesson for getting acquainted with the Linux CLI. I'll stick with it.

[@JHuff276]

Best of luck. It takes a while to figure out, but it can be rewarding.

[@TheBonyfacy]

Eli, I just wanna say thanks for videos you made and thx for videos (hopefully) you will make :-)

[@ElitistMagi]

I'm agnostic, but god bless you man!

[@MrLambwalker]

My god I couldn't how happy I was to find out how to get out of the "man" page... thanks forever

[@Gffghbhb]

Very instructive tutorial. Keep doing this Eli. Greetings form Poland!

[@TheNangaboko]

Well done Elite, for making it simple to all novice to Linux.

[@hotbullet79]

hi thanks.. i have been trying to learn computer for 10 years.. after seeing your vids seems i am understanding better.

[@kuqezi8081]

Eli is the motto to live by.

[@azaifel]

Amazing Instructor! Thx for sharing the knowledge in such an understandable way

[@MrEr1992]

u r literally the greatest guy on youtube ! no joke

[@johngoard8272]

I started this tutorial a little confused but I am one for analogies and I found the use of Windows analogies very helpful thank you because ten minutes in I was going to quit but glad I didn't. What I don't get is using my desktop Mint command like top worked with out sudo in front of them and I must find out what is meant by teh ROOT directory.

[@GNU_Linux_for_good]

27:45 But you omitted sudo apt-get update

[@doug23fun]

I am new in the Linux world and after watching these videos from this guy I have sure that I will love Ubuntu

[@tylercleveland8012]

if you have a lot of administrative tasks to complete there is no need to keep using sudo. The command SU Root in terminal followed by the password will allow you to execute commands as root.

[@TheB2steaksauce]

Please please please do more Linux videos! I really really appreciate them (and obviously the whole world revolves around me), and could use more Linux tutorials with specifically Ubuntu (because it's so widespread and there's some really great improvements like the dash since 12.0 I think). The only idea I have worth submitting for another class would be administration programs in Linux. Like one that can change permissions of files, change permissions of users, change passwords, edit security policies such as network sec. or start-up processes. Basically so that more people can circumvent the LUI and still get what they need to done.

[@VichetSSom-ck8jd]

You are awesome Ali!!! Thanks for all the information you gave to me. Keep them great videos coming. I'm watching you all the way from Cambodia.

[@RaveYoda]

You would need to get moc(music on console). type :: sudo apt-get install moc Then to run moc type :: mocp I think it starts you by default in the root folder so use your arrow keys to navigate to home/yourUsrName/location of files. Then just hit enter to play music. NOTE:: If you wish to use the same console just press q. To quit the application hold shift then press q. Look at man pages for more info. IE: Type man moc. cheers mate

[@gavinperkins3200]

at 23:00, you should have mentioned "sudo apt-cache search "..

[@uttambaroi]

Eli, has clearly mentioned this vid is for Beginners not for those who are finding a flaw to dislike the video....... cm'on, don't act like widows here.

[@therflash]

sudo means "SWITCH-user-do", not "super-user-do" it's derived from another command "su", which means "switch user". It switches to another user account, whatever account you specify. And if you don't say any user acc and use plain "su", it switches into root. sudo works similary. By the way, "su" can still be used by root to switch into any account, even root itself, therefore you can still switch into root on ubuntu. Just type "sudo su", write password and voila - root account.

[@pradeeplanka6976]

Eli, thanks a lot for your work. I am a new one to linux. Your videos are of high quality and are very helpful. your accent is very clear. plz continue this good work in future too.

[@danimoosakhan]

Hey Eli, I wanna learn more about Linux from you because I enjoy learning from you and I am able to grasp every single word you say and able to understand it. How can I get more Linux lessons from you?

[@cacaloveforever]

This guy is so good at explaining! Thank you!

[@ntgc-tv]

Eli keeps up with your great job...Your explanations are just crystal clear...Thanks, A mili

[@nepTune32]

Thank you so much for all your help. It's very useful. Love to hear more from you about Linux Environment.

[@staj]

Another well done, video, i've been procrastinating about learning Linux for over 3 years, Thank God for you i'm starting 2012 finally learning it, thanks a lot Eli.

[@otawaaz]

Hi Eli, thank so much for your videos! I am looking for the Cent OS shell lessons. Got anything for that?

[@Villagejonesy]

Excellent series! Do you do a SQL tutorial by any chance?

[@vinjameson3944]

I'm very grateful for these excellent videos. Many thanks, Eli!

[@0x28]

For Lubuntu users: sudo apt-get install tasksel

[@thepoopiestpoopmaestrothat2780]

sudo (/ˈsuːduː/ or /ˈsuːdoʊ/) or super do, is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, or root). Its name is a contraction of "substitute user do", meaning to do something as a different user (typically as root, the "superuser"). Unlike the related su command, users typically supply their own password to sudo rather than the root password. After authentication, and if the /usr/local/etc/sudoers (sometimes found at /etc/sudoers) configuration file permits the user access, then the system will invoke the requested command. The sudoers configuration file enables a huge amount of configurability, including but not limited to: enabling root commands only from the invoking terminal; not requiring a password for certain commands; requiring a password per user or group; requiring re-entry of a password every time or never requiring a password at all for a particular command line. It can also be configured to permit passing arguments or multiple commands, and even supports commands with regular expressions.

[@thepumpkingking8339]

26:57 Why do you re-type all . When if you hit the up arrow key is will show he last command typed.

[@张章鱼龙]

I really like your course !!

[@asimthegunner]

Hello Eli, thank you so much for all the videos that you have come up with it has helped me a lot in understanding the concepts. I was wondering if you could do a similar video on RHEL 7??. That would be very much appreciated.

[@bvowens]

Recently I've installed Ubuntu in my sons computer and he hasn't looked back since. I've since purchased a Raspi and among the many uses I have for one I'm first going to install it so as to give network access to my printer and all my external drives in one location. I may eventually try to use one (if it is capable) as a hosting server for one of my websites - but I'll need to learn more from your classes by then. Thanks again.