Learn The Linux Terminal In 30 Minutes

[@hexisXz]

You should do window managers in 30/40 minutes next.

[@bigmikeobama5314]

I second that

[@neod4]

YEP

[@ronsingh]

For sure!

[@subhajitmishra007]

👍🏽👍🏽

[@RafaCoringaProducoes]

I guess dt already did it, there is a super nice video which he introduces TWMs in like 10min and showcases some of them with timestamps, recomending for begginers aweasome, qtile and i3 i guess

[@AbuMaxime]

Excellent. Even for old-time Linux users it's a good refresher for some of these commands we don't practice often.

[@ja-boo-kneesw4460]

Amazing. I have been in a intro to Linux class for the last 11 weeks and you just summed up all our past Labs in under a hr. ❤

[@lukematteoni]

Such a great video! I am learning Linux command line and this was a great help. The video is well planned out and explained a lot in 30 min

[@ronsingh]

A most useful 30-min class. Thanks!

[@sbr895]

DT using terminal: let's open this file by vim it's almost on every Linux distro. DT reviewing almost every Linux distro: OMG why vim isn't installed by default.

[@nonwibb]

It legit pisses me off when a distro comes with nano and not vim lol

[@samoylov1973]

Thank you! Almost everything do in terminal now) But there's always something new to learn.

[@marwanmostafa976]

Hey, Thank you for the effort actually some of the vids out there covering these commands literally taking hours

[@jr_Linux]

i think DT found his new series lol. as someone who's been learning linux a bit and just enjoying your videos, i've saved the ones i needed in a playlist just so i got a private reference and doing these quick 30 min videos of stuff that was in multiple vids would be great

[@m.m3633]

You totally forgot to talk about sending processes background and foreground. I expected that to be also included in a whirlwind tour. Great video anyway!

[@somethingcoolgoeshere]

Hoping DT sees this as this is incredibly useful

[@evropej]

Great video for beginners like me! Have you ever made a video on formatting disks? I saw this because if you are doing arch install, this is the part that is the most confusing. It would be really helpful to explain the essentials for new linux users.

[@NebulaM57]

WOW!! I will have to strap in next time! If I had hair, it'd be totally disheveled! lol Great job! And I especially love how you put them in an order where you could show how to use previous commands piped together. Very informative and easy to follow. Thanks for sharing!

[@Bobleruse]

Wonderful tutorial. 👍👍👍Very complete and well explained. Thanks a lot. 🙂

[@fstoplive1991]

Hey DT, loving following along to refresh my fading memory, until you get all absorbed & manic, don't forget to breath have fun w/ your followers & students, Dude its' a 🎁 savored like a good steak, U wouldn't gulp down🕊 freedom is to be made to last 🤣 Great work Dude

[@ari-athbadminton0301]

My Archlife will be much easier once I learn those commands. Thanks for including the timestamps.

[@arsacode6145]

Seriously/ You made another one?! AWSOME!

[@koreanG6]

Nice video. That could be episode 1 of "... In 30 Minutes".

[@kychemclass5850]

Tq DT. I love Bash stuff. A video on bash programming e.g. in a typical bashrc would be fantastic!

[@gogee8510]

Masterclass. Thank you.

[@oldlonecoder5843]

Hello DT, I take this opportunity to thank you about your presentation of the Starship prompt. I will NEVER-EVER return to oh-my-fish. I use Fish shell, by the way :) 😁🤪

[@ruellerz]

lol i just saw a 2yr one on ur channel and i was riding that wave. I'll start here instead!

[@sajukagentoo51]

Nice vid :) I go out of my way to avoid Terminal and embrace the KDE ecosystem and spam there bug tracker instead. ofc, cant spam bugs without Terminal for lots of output, but only way to make the KDE Desktop and toolset better is to actually use it :)

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

I hope your pseudonym does come from the fact that you use Gentoo Linux - because unless you are prepared to learn Linux properly with the terminal, there is no way you can be using Gentoo!

[@sajukagentoo51]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 i do in fact use Gentoo, since 2006 and i never said i couldnt use terminal, actually did imply it, just that nowdays i do my bedst to minimize it, so that can do propper KDE use and testning :) But avoiding terminal as a hole is impossible

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@sajukagentoo51 If KDE is what you use then so be it. I just find it unusual that someone who uses Gentoo (and I have been using it myself since 2003, it's a great distro) also avoids the terminal.

[@sajukagentoo51]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 oh it havent been easy :p

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@sajukagentoo51 If it works for you, who am I to say otherwise?

[@Hiram8866]

Very useful video thanks DT.

[@adrianmares269]

Great, very useful, even more useful if I'll be able to remember all that 😅

[@wiz3905]

I learn stuff then forget due to lack of use. Think my solution is to go back to slackware and use i3Wm with that Mate Task & Tool bar🤣

[@kimo01031983]

Thank you man great video as usual. ,

[@bravefastrabbit770]

Hey DT. Arch turns 20 today, btw.

[@sys7emH4cked]

Great job DT!

[@mikecantreed]

Great reference. Going to bookmark this one.

[@debian_i3]

Thx and greets from Germany nearby Bremen

[@BillSteinhauser]

20:33 awk has grep+cat+cut+sed-like abilities built in... so you don't need to cat file then pipe to awk, just type: awk '/search/{cmds}' files (awk has dozens of program features) BTW: the passwd 2nd x field is not Xterm, but used to be the user's encrypted password field, before content was moved to a separate file.

[@GWFO]

Hey DT i have this habit of running new distros on vms every time one drops, got endless recently ,currently running zorin,but i'd like to get in arch, i want to become a linux power user ,I'm studying cybersecurity,which version of arch should i get ?

[@bigmikeobama5314]

if you read up on the arch wiki it will tell you which arch kernel is best for what.

[@tylerdean980]

If you’re into cybersecurity then blackarch is the way to go. Of course, you could always just install regular arch, and then add the blackarch repo to it, same result.

[@IneffableKoD]

Great job. Quick note: you crated test in Downloads when talking about mkdir.

[@NebulaM57]

Can I ask what the items are in the upper left of your screen? They're labeled dev www sys doc vbox... etc I am new to the window managers like dwm. I learned last night what all the items are on the right side of the bar. But I'm having trouble finding info about the stuff on the left. I have downloaded a few iso's of ArcoLinux and so far I'm enjoying working with it. I've tried playing with chadwm and xmonad arco iso's but can't see what the stuff on the left of the bar does. What's it called and where could I find a video or something of it being used. All I find are people talking about configurations. I can't seem to find anyone USING the bar. Any info would be great! Thank you and thank you for sharing!

[@muxtonungulate9423]

37:06 could run `diff -s bashrc newbashrc` to prove equivalence, or `vim -O bashrc newbashrc` to eyeball them side by side

[@willywantoknow2563]

Thank you DT. I dont think ill be a linux pro, but i am enjoying resurecting my wife's dead laptop collection🤣. Started with manjaro, now on stormOS, and quickly thinking of going endeavour OS or arco to skip out on the bloat.

[@bigmikeobama5314]

Hey DT, could you do a review of kali linux?

[@nonwibb]

ive been using linux for 5 years, why did i watch this? because i like dt's voice lol

[@caner-191]

Hey DT FYI, CTRL + L is not alias nor does same thing as clear (just similar behavior), just scroll up you are gonna see the difference. Small difference but not same job. Idk, it could be useful for some people, at least knowing truth is better than not, right ?

[@BillSteinhauser]

Ctrl-L was the ASCII Form-Feed char used with PaPeR teletypes to jump top of next page back in 1960s+1970s. FF starts a clean page to work with. That feature has been held for the last 50 yrs, and text/term scrolls everything off top, to give you a clear screen. (simple, but effective)

[@billfarley9015]

I don't think 30 minutes is going to be long enough. But it's a start.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Would you like him to pop over to Your Lordship's manor, fluff up the cushions on your chair and massage your feet for a few minutes? At least you put a smile on my face today - it takes a special kind of person lacking a large amount of self-awareness to not realise how self-entitled they sound in making such a comment about something they get for free anyway.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@BreadTurtle If you're that analytical about a complete stranger on the Internet, I think you either need to go get yourself a better hobby or two or go get some therapy before you turn into a fully-fledged Internet stalker. What I write and how much of it is not your concern - if I require an "amateur Internet sleuth" like your good self to manage my time for me, I will ask for such. Now run along, sonny - nobody appointed you as his spokesperson either.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@BreadTurtle "everything you just said applies to you" Absolutely, I can only talk about me. What a silly point to make, and I didn't read any further for fear of you saying even more ridiculous things. I think you need to read your comments properly before posting, you clearly lack self-awareness.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@BreadTurtle Isn't it just? I was very pleased with that reply, thank you for your appreciation of it.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@BreadTurtle PS. Are we done now? It's just that every time you post a reply, all that pops into my head is "Oh, no, the stalking, message-counting and hobbyless weirdo is back".

[@rabbegoviski]

I really appreciate you work . could you please give me what Terminal theme you use, I really Like it . Thank you.

[@sofadhana1289]

at 22:45 or so, grep "connected" shows the disconnected lines too, not much use in your example - how do you only get what you enter, and not entries that have that as part of the field? (pausing the video overnight to get some sleep, apologies if it's answered later)

[@DistroTube]

grep " connected" with a space will eliminate the "disconnected" monitor.

[@piadas804]

What you're referring to as Linux is, in fact, GNU/Linux.

[@reggyelizer8126]

Why do you ignore the keyboard? (No QMK videos, refuse to learn touch typing etc.)

[@randaldavis8976]

if I remember right "script" will echo the output into a file so you can record what you did while in the terminal screen

[@volodymyrkhoma9917]

Amazing. Thanks.

[@worldslayer100]

Hey DT. I declare you the Omniscient man. We need your modern Philosophical mind to guide us through the darkness of the modern void. Unravel the hidden truths that are tucked under our noses from the wolves and bent shepherds. We need the knowledge to overcome the higher order and pave way for the retribution and reconstruction of life 4.0. Please DT, we need you. tH3 w0rID n3EdS U 😶‍🌫

[@maximecyclochard6912]

Nice. Thank you DT

[@Swangorapofficial]

Thx for vid this was a banger

[@user-mr3mf8lo7y]

Much appreciated.

[@DistroTube]

Thanks!

[@ThePhantomBean]

Thank you sir.

[@wiz3905]

Great video👍 Which Linux Shell? Seams like there is no Uniform Command list that works across any of them like Elvis, Fish, Vi that I was living & it got upgrade👀 Nano... I only know a little Bash. I'd like to get to a point I could do anything I need to in a Linux Shell. I'm trying out Garuda & needed to format a USB to Flash Bios & it wouldn't give me root access or let me use the one tool I know fdisk? I was pissed, when I looked at the Garuda Forum someone was exposing root access would be dissasterius. If I trash my install then I better learn to fix it. Linux is not windows dummy down Americans dirty or stolen code! So why is it so hard to create Bios Flash USB sticks in Linux?

[@somethingcoolgoeshere]

I only recently had to use lsblk to find the device name of this usb stick so I could format it

[@davidgomez79]

touch, mount, and even gimp wow 😮

[@hexisXz]

Sounds so inappropriate. You can touch my gimp mount lmao

[@shallex5744]

finger

[@tylerdean980]

Don’t forget cp, the most unfortunate Linux command name

[@agfd5659]

It's like that meme: $ touch girl touch: cannot touch 'girl': Permission denied

[@AndersJackson]

Actually ~ is an alias in the shell. But . and .. IS two directories, that are the same as current directory and the parent directory.

[@VictoriaMan69]

294 lines on .bashrc is pretty good. nice.

[@arsacode6145]

Remember boys and girls, you can also use cat to write into a file

[@slipcurve1410]

when searching the whole system with "find / -name ..." you get alot of "Permission denied" noise. to avoid that you can do "find / -name ... 2>/dev/null" to see only the findings and no errors. (2 is stderr, 1 is stdout)

[@user-tc9tb3a]

Where is cmatrix?

[@MichaelMantion]

You should do a video with the rust alternatives since they are superior and will likely replace the current utilities eventually.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

No, that won't happen. The "software fashionistas" that treat Linux like a fashion accessory to show their peers how "l33t" they are will be able to use Rust tools until Iron Oxide itself streams from their tear ducts, whilst the more "traditional" Linux users like myself who actually know how to use Linux properly will simply continue to use those tools that make us the "power users" that we are. That's because Linux is about "choice" - you can choose how you want to use it, I can choose how I want to use it. Neither of us need to be concerned about how the other one "does their thing" on Linux. There, I fixed it for you. You're welcome, you can thank me later.

[@wiz3905]

Question, can you run seperate apps in Tiling WMs?

[@tylerdean980]

You mean things that you couldn’t run in floating? No. But if you’re asking if you can have multiple applications at once, then yes, of course. Watch some of DT’s other videos and you’ll see it in action. He has videos all about tiling window managers too.

[@dr.mikeybee]

OK. I've held off for years, but my OCD or my autism won't allow me to hold off any longer. Why do you write quit vi with esc :wq? Use esc ZZ. Sheesh! And yes, those are capital zees.

[@bullpup1337]

:x…

[@wiz3905]

Compare 2 Text files. Or scripts, edit & merge to discard duplicates?

[@tylerdean980]

Diff can compare files, I dunno about the rest

[@muxtonungulate9423]

`cat cities1 cities2 | sort | uniq > unique_cities` - sort is needed because uniq detects duplicates on adjacent lines only.

[@younesjaafar2216]

Like is a must 🙏

[@SanjayRajbanshi-ni1px]

Thank you

[@Rafxar]

Nice

[@wiz3905]

Where is your "Buy me a Kofi?" 🤖 I have a little "Linux Cheat Sheet" but you're more Fun😅

[@Spyrex420]

please another one for the windows cli pleaaase :D and thank you for the amazing content

[@helloimatapir]

DT doesn't use Windows.

[@Spyrex420]

@@helloimatapir xD true was jst wondering, if u work in IT u'r bound to use it one way or another xd and since windows sucks, knowing how to use it from the cli would help a lot, typing a cmd is way better than navigating a million window to find what ur looking for xd

[@noiamnote]

Life hack: put the video on x2 speed and the title will change to 15 minutes

[@ChrisXPZ]

No manual entry for cd :( on Pop OS

[@gimcrack555]

Do help than cd --help

[@marcossantos1998]

Hey thanks

[@TheITGuy84]

I have bookmarked this video, i always forget some commands.

[@GXShade]

I always forget about the man command

[@JLajos]

DT did some man-splaining!

[@GXShade]

@@JLajos 🤣

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

11:11 - aint it 295 .. indexing from 0.. :D

[@DistroTube]

Haha! No. The line count returned is the actual number of lines.

[@moumnalmunawy1806]

Hey dt, but that is a 40 minute video

[@DistroTube]

Just play it at 1.5 speed and you have a 30 minute video! :D

[@moumnalmunawy1806]

​@@DistroTube Brilliant as Expected from Linux user

[@ザウアークラウトマン]

I actually watched it at 2x speed but I already knew like half of the commands. I learned some good stuff because I'm often too lazy to read manpages for terminal commands.

[@CowboyTrucking61]

No its not, its 39.31 minutes long. lol

[@MaciejKurzyca]

😮it was fast

[@GrumpyDev]

DT terminal cheatsheet and alias list to all

[@wartownmadness]

bruuuuh, slow down... u 30 commands ahead... I'm still in the ls.... 👀

[@devpiggy]

No one can learn the Linux Terminal 30min. I am so tired of people post videos like this. I watch a lot of your videos DistroTube, and i like learning things from you because you are so thorough and a good teacher. But this thing about learning a concept in 10min, 30min or 2 in just hours is just not right and i usually dont watch videos that say this to people. Please stop doing that, and get real. Your videos are great, i love them, i just dont love the name you are giving some of you videos.

[@nextfangtechlead6239]

But the terminal is sooo scaaaary 🫣🫣🫣

[@tylerdean980]

Use a VM then, practice without fear

[@We_were_born_free]

1

[@leviticus8930]

I sense an Eww Widgets video coming soon

[@thesilentgeneration]

This is not for those of us nontech people, only tech types need to apply. I tried Linux, and Zorin OS, but when I ran into trouble I couldn't get any help. Even the Zorin community site ridiculed me for being naive. I spent a lot of needless time getting rid of it and going back to Windows 10. Never again will I use it no matter how much I hate Microsoft. It should be illegal for 77-year-olds to even watch videos that promote it. lol

[@Bonez0r]

36:50 𝚌𝚊𝚝 𝚡* > 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚑𝚛𝚌 I assume that cat takes the files in alphabetical order? Otherwise it could put the parts back again in the wrong order.

[@tylerdean980]

Now do BSD in 30 minutes

[@hexisXz]

third

[@eriklundstedt9469]

Incredible Not even a minute in and he's already wrong Not every terminal will open in ~ Not every shell config will open in ~ I have my system setup to open a new shell in the last opened folder, so I don't have to cd as much

[@janaki3829]

Notes for myself > writes >> appends sed 's/[search]/[replace]/g' [file] search and replace sed -i 's/[search]/[replace]/g' [file] search and replace, and write cat [file] | awk -F [seperator] '{print $[n]}' print the nth column of file, where each column is separated by symbol (symbol defaults to space) history | fzf --query [command] !! last command time [command]

[@skia5635]

It's GNU Bash, not "Linux Terminal".

[@user-zn3zx6fk7u]

who gives a poop for gnu. it's unix

[@tylerdean980]

Virtually everything said here applies to any UNIX shell; perhaps a better title would be learning the shell, but noobs won’t click on that because they don’t know what they don’t know

[@user-zn3zx6fk7u]

@@tylerdean980 you forgot to say "gnu is poop" or "gnu is useless and it hasnt to be mentioned here in vain"

[@skia5635]

"Unix" has been dead for decades, GNU is the modern day "Unix"

[@user-zn3zx6fk7u]

@@skia5635 GNU literally stands for "GNU is Not Unix"

[@andrewwigglesworth3030]

There is no such thing as "the Linux terminal", it doesn't exist. #gnu

[@edbeckerich3737]

kill - 9 - 1 sometime

[@amfa7]

Marvelous, thanks.