Linux Tutorial - Basic Command Line

This video is for absolute beginners. I will show you how to navigate your system in Linux/Unix. For this video we are using Linux Ubuntu 16.04.
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[@taariqq]

I found a 38 video series on Linux Command Line and I thought Brad must have a concise and to the point tutorial ... and ... here it is. Awesome!

[@karlahnorris3262]

Brad I love your tutorials! Im working on a BS degree in software dev and your channel is honestly a better resource than most of my professors . Thank you for all that you do!

[@karlahnorris3262]

@Rationalistic I was brand new and you're a troll... move along child.

[@mikuculus3720]

@@karlahnorris3262 Did you get your bachelors

[@ishmeet6]

you are the best brad. there are not enough words to describe how good you are at teaching at such simplicity and precision in a short duration. THANK YOU so much.

[@marthacarson-stevens9888]

Thanks Brad I’m new to Linux and this really helped me grasp the basics.

[@TroySupermanGentle]

Wow, just starting to learn Linux CLI while on furlough and taking a free class through our public library online. The instructor barely digs into Linux CLI and spends most the sessions on Windows CLI, this was leaving me frustrated. The first KZbin video that popped up in my search is this one and what a Gem! Thank you!!!

[@ralph3932]

very useful tutorial. your voice is unmistakably clear and the instructions were very straightforward!

[@nitishkhanna9368]

Noted down the commands that he went through in this video. Just sharing it here pwd ==> path ls ==> listing ls -a ==> lists all files including hidden file ls -l ==> lists files with info mkdir ==> create directory cd ==> change path cd / ==> goto root cd ~ ==> goto home touch file.txt ==> creates file nano file.txt ==> edit file on cmd line cat file.txt ==> shows what's in file less file.txt ==> show whats in file in new tab (for big files) mv file1 file2 ==> renames file (replaces) cp file1 file2 ==> copies from 1 file to another rm file ==> delete file rmdir dirname ==> delete directory (only umempty dirs) which mongo ==> finds the path of mongo history ==> shows last 500 commands ifconfig ==> shows info (like ipconfig) iwconfig ==> shows wireless info ping google.com ==> pings server uname -a ==> system info blkid ==> hard drive info top ==> process and memory info (like task manager) df ==> disk space info lsusb ==> usb devices sudo apt-get install packagename ==> installs package sudo apt-get remove packagename ==> removes package sudo apt-get update packagename ==> updates package sudo shutdown -h now ==> shut down

[@ajimahifeanyi2784]

Thanks for this Man.

[@ajimahifeanyi2784]

Very thoughtful of you.

[@heytbnk2023]

I watched your html/css series, looked for a linux command line video, clicked on this one without knowing and BOOM. Traversy Media. Dope. Haha thanks for the great content!

[@riaznapa]

Always love your tutorial; precise and useful.

[@houseofoddity2031]

This was so well laid out and perfect for any newcomer to the Linux distributions. Very informative and a great stepping stone if you want a no BS, straight to the point tutorial. Great video and I have subscribed. Clearly a well-educated gentleman with perfect delivery of this content. I cannot bitch about anything!! A+ and I look forward to future video's

[@houseofoddity2031]

Coke Esto estaba muy bien diseñado y era perfecto para cualquier recién llegado a las distribuciones de Linux. Muy informativo y un gran trampolín si no quieres un BS, tutorial directo al grano. Gran video y me suscribí. Claramente, un caballero bien educado con una entrega perfecta de este contenido. ¡¡No puedo quejarme de nada !! A + y espero con ansias futuros videos

[@jamescarson4507]

Dude I just came across your video it is so helpful... I just put Kelly legs on my laptop a half an hour ago this has been so helpful

[@abdulfazul]

Brad, just getting into AWS Solutions Architect - your tutorial on Linux basic commands is very helpful.

[@dungeoncrawler2011]

Great video my doode. Currently taking Linux 1 through Netcad and now I feel confident to work ahead

[@Leonid_P]

Thanks Brad! We need a new crash course - Linux Crash Course :) Please, more about Linux, Vim, VM, SSH on Linux and etc.

[@astratow]

Yep, vim is very missed command. Or at least vi...

[@lorenzvader7918]

5:07 The d stands for directory and not delete. If you can write to a file you can delete it.

[@TraversyMedia]

Right, brain fart :(

[@TheGryphon14]

"If you can write to a file you can delete it" No you must have *write* and *execute* permissions on its parent folder. The file permissions don't matter.

[@squish6912]

having 0 knowledge of tech and completing all of these commands was somehow the most satisfying/rewarding thing ever

[@claudebizaare8991]

My first time on linux and you made it look easy

[@isunaslabs4733]

Dude,ur videos are amazing.Thank you so much.Greetings from China😜

[@Esore996]

You got the permissions part for ls -l wrong I think. It's not delineated by the dashes like you indicated, its divided in to letter groups of size 1+3+3+3. The first digit indicates file (-) or directory (d). And the next 3 tuples of rwx indicate what permissions are granted to the user, group, and all. For example -rwxrwxr-x would indicate a file that grants read, write and execute to the user and group, but only read and execute to others.

[@faresgeek-dz5692]

you are the best instructur in youtube🤗👏👏

[@nabeelyousafpasha]

Following you since 2017 👍👍

[@diggerfdf]

Your videos are awesome! Keep up the good work! I guess I work in a similar way. I got a Macbook Pro and It's very annoying to program on it. Linux is far better! So I use all the "normal and mundane" stuff like logic and final cut pro. Everything else goes to my VM with xubuntu. Your videos are helping me to accelerate the process to use ONLY Linux for all. I'm a Brazilian dude. And I can be held back hostage because of apple hardware prices.

[@unkown3305]

hey im french and i was pretty scared to watch an english tutorial and finally yours is 10 times better than french ones

[@rajendrawagle1854]

In Windows 10 build 1607 i.e Anniversary Update, Microsoft listened to developers and added support for 'Bash' which runs on Ubuntu and its not a VM or any virtual box, it's the similar concept to WINE but doesn't run GUI based applications and they called it WSL i.e Windows Subsystem for Linux. So you'll probably don't need to install a separate OS for normal development tasks. By the way Windows 'Bash' is created in collaboration with Canonical i.e Ubuntu Developers which uses Ubuntu 14.04. It will be helpful for new developers as well :). Kindly cover it in your next video.

[@amirmoezi8316]

Thanks a million for your invaluable content.. it's just wonderful

[@aviipatel8760]

Great,,. Today i learned alot of Basic Things about CLI

[@Chickennugget-vq6lw]

omg thank u so much i was learning this in school today but i was so confused i thought it was so hard but u made it so easy for me to understand thank u so much ... heart heart

[@MianAyazAfzal]

Very amazing 😍 thanks a lot for basic info 😉 thumbs up for you 👍😊

[@jonnjordan4420]

Another great tutorial Brad, could you make a tutorial about MERN Stack? It would be great

[@lanegalambos7645]

Brad this was an enormous help. Thanks

[@hil449]

13:17 actually the which command is not gonna search for any file or directory. It actually only shows the full path for a specific binary executable file that is listed in the PATH environment variable. You can search for multiple of these binaries but it just does that. It only shows what's already inside of the PATH environment variable. It doesn't search for any file in the system

[@masudurrahman125]

Best linux basic video, Thanks !

[@shadmansoumik9535]

A wonderful to the point Video, Sir. One thing, Does not "which" command shows only the path of Executable Files? Thank you.

[@beefypeanuts3321]

Really helpful thanks Brad, earned a sub

[@Jel.Awesh.M]

What do you think about Arch Linux (or similar like Antergos / Manjaro)?

[@aeid101]

Brad, can you share why you prefer web development on a linux machine? What are the advantages over OSX?

[@suyashgupta4019]

Is there any way to play around with non-.txt files using terminal? I mean, what output can we expect if we use the cat command? Brilliant tutorial,though.

[@ZenIsBestWolf]

Thanks so much! This is super helpful.

[@Doorsfan13]

Awesome tutorial! I have Debian 11 on a chromebook in Linux Beta, and I have basically no idea how to use any of it but I'm trying to learn. The nano command was not found when I tried it, is there an alternative? Or a reason that this wasn't working?

[@onearth68]

Actually "d" in ls -al command stands for Directory.

[@astratow]

Missed commands: vim emacs and keys tab and up arrow key to reuse input or get hints/autocomplete

[@pramoddp9591]

very useful information for beginners...tysm

[@ddddaaddaaaa]

this one is very useful! will this work on CentOS?

[@RameshKumar-mv3jd]

Awesome primer, thank you! I think "which" only searches for executable files, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[@nabeelyousafpasha]

Respect from Pakistan. Thanks 🙏

[@Lana-rx6qe]

very good video. good explanation! Thank you

[@yomajo]

Hey. Just started using ubuntu for python development. Using vscode, have been digging around internet, but can not find. When project directory is open in vscode and I run in terminal touch .gitignore What the next command to open this newly created file would be?

[@kitchenspider1539]

The best Linux distro is the one that works with your hardware. If you want a solid Linux machine for developing, I'd suggest a Thinkpad. Generally, Thinkpads seem to be very compatible with just about any version of Linux. Just my 2 cents.

[@tanveertouhid9483]

do you recomand download any application for Mac to learn Basic Terminal

[@DenzelHooke]

Great one Brad!

[@balli5824]

sir pls make tutorial on electron. thanks.

[@TheXiaoCi]

Let's do a in-depth one!

[@Mirauge]

Was there ever an in depth guide? Please post a link if so. Loved this.

[@codingschool1496]

i love it so much bro. u just saved my ass. but one question what passcode did u use in sudo

[@RB-cx3ce]

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you. a million times thank you. 🙂

[@MoChev20]

Awesome man great video.

[@nicholasjoiles8999]

good content Brad. thanks

[@muldurksk]

This guy is so cool and awesome!!!

[@oOcitizenOo]

Sadly, i have never used Linux in my life even regarding the fact i worked as a system administrator :) But willing it improve my skills i decided to take a Linux course on Udacity, and here is your video. Coincidence? Don't think so.

[@TraversyMedia]

Hey some people just do not get around to certain technologies. Like for me, I am a web developer and I have only used a mac a handful of times. That is also kind of weird. Ive always been interested in building powerful gaming PCs and that whole world so I never had a mac. I built all my machines

[@oOcitizenOo]

I see your point :) Speaking about Mac - for an average citizen it's not affordable in my country since it costs as hell, but i know people working with virtual Mac machines in order to have a bit of understanding it. All i wanna i say is that even though we have our main jobs it's ok to learn something new - so i'm a junior web developer but still wanna grow in networking engineering field (in case the whole dev community ruins :D) Thnx for all your videos, they're really helpful!

[@mayaali55]

oOcitizenOo

[@fakfatkids1812]

Brad i love you, thanks.

[@cochemas]

At the beginning of the video, you are talking about a Linux based recording solution as an alternative for Windows based Camtasia. What kind of software is that? Sorry, if I missed smth. And if that's not a secret))

[@TraversyMedia]

Screen recording and video processing. I have tried Kazam, OBS, Screenrecorder and some others but they were either buggy, slow or couldn't do what I need

[@cochemas]

+Traversy Media Oh, I got it. I'll have those onto my blacklist in order not to waste time messing around with them. Your opinion based on experience is very welcome. Thnx

[@shreyazore4384]

Thanks alot its just awesome

[@olixz]

Thank you Sir!

[@supermario6654]

Awesome tutoiral !

[@sagar-gavhane]

Great tutorial...

[@carletonai6597]

The command "ifconfig" does not work on my windows subsystem for Linux. what is the problem?

[@don23817]

Please show us how to make application with electron.

[@rayamoooooo685]

Thank you ! 🧚🏽‍♀️

[@haydarhilly6387]

thanks. that was very useful.

[@100salonichoudhary]

What is the command of a text file having 100 lines, you need to display line number 40 to 60 in linux?

[@jnwte]

sed -n '40,60p'

[@zzRider]

Great job!

[@JC-wv9ss]

Hey brad! Near the end of the video you show how to get an update. When you do it it doesn't allow you to do it without using 'sudo' and when you use 'sudo' it asks for your password. For me, when I use 'sudo apt-get update' it goes through without requesting a password. What does that mean? Am I already the root user? Should I be?

[@vivonschristtv1]

Did you log in as the root user? if you had created an user with root privileges, it should have requested you the password normally

[@hamilton2861]

Thanks for this have a test on Linux cmd tomorrow morning and my virtual machine chose yesterday to somehow lose its files needed to run or something even if I uninstall and reinstall idk what's wrong but even using other apps Ubuntu crashes

[@kynan9465]

Did you pass?

[@user-te6td6dz9f]

Thanks

[@anjanashamika3269]

first d is for directories no?

[@muralidharan5348]

I have folders named exp1, exp2, ......exp99. I need to remove "exp" from those names. The encypted scripts work only when the folders are "1, 2, 3 .....99: . Can someone please help me with that? Thanks in advance!

[@2Clean4This1]

Thanks, Like + Comment!

[@directtoanne]

THANK YOU BRAD

[@isharaperera419]

Thanks brad!

[@naumansafdar6821]

Sir very nice video

[@lightsnsiren79]

Thanks. Thumbs up, but the 3 minutes of intro describing reasons for linux vs windows seemed to be a bit of a digression...

[@Madjidbr]

Thanks dude.

[@rahulsriram6295]

will all these work if i use Ubuntu on Windows 10 as subsystem?

[@chrissabre1761]

you can download it into virtual box, Ubuntu or centos

[@John_Ridley]

@5:13 d is not delete it's directory. Also you have the grouping wrong. The group can read and execute, and also "everyone else" can read and execute. it's owner=rwx, group=r-x everyone else=r-x

[@benzeltser9851]

AMAZING!

[@rahj1365]

Finally clear English!!

[@hamidmohamadi2943]

I like you brad, thanks

[@chookiatj.8766]

Will this OBS , obsproject.com/ , work for you?

[@assadzakir5819]

Awesome :)

[@prajwalm.s7976]

Amazing

[@scottpaulsen1400]

Thank you

[@jpro2222]

Thanks dawg

[@piyush9555]

Starts at 02:52

[@aliizzetmetin6382]

getting deeper into the Matrix....

[@adeltahenti1330]

Thanks :)

[@averyrobbins68]

helpful!

[@umerchohan3468]

chmod command missing

[@abdulwaheedkashmiri4624]

Great❤️

[@bjarkijonsson8899]

ls command isnt working for me

[@IamTiernO]

When I try and intall ubuntu on a VM it runs really slow

[@TraversyMedia]

How much memory are you assigning the VM? You may want to try assigning more and maybe bump up the CPU cores to 2 if possible. Try with and without 3d acceleration too (VM settings)

[@IamTiernO]

Traversy Media I'm new to all this haha I allocated 2gb of ram and 8gb hard drive space , I'll try the other things tho thanks

[@TraversyMedia]

how much RAM on your computer total? Also, check in your BIOS settings and see if there are any options for virtualization

[@IamTiernO]

Traversy Media there is 8gb on my system and yes virtualization is enabled :)

[@rayhanmahamud2280]

Good Man, :)