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Linux' Basic Use

Welcome to the Haifa Linux Club lecture about Basic Use of Linux. This lecture will cover both using "X-Windows", the Linux windowing interface, with a lot of focus on its KDE desktop environment. It will also cover using the Linux' command-line interface, because some things in Linux can only be done or are better done at the command-line.


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1 X-Windows and KDE


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1.1 Similarities to Windows


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1.2 The Workspaces


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1.3 Show the Desktop


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1.4 Cut and Paste in X-Windows


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1.4.1 Klipper


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2 The Linux Console


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2.1 Opening a Console Window


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2.2 Exiting from a Console Window


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2.3 The Command Loop

shlomi:~$ ls
apps      cddb        Download      mail       nsmail          smart-link.txt~
Arcs      CD-Writing  GNUstep       Mail       progs           tmp
autosave  conf        index.html    Music      Projects        To_Send
Backup    Desktop     ip-noise.fig  Nautilus   Rpms            Xrootenv.0
bin       Docs        links         nohup.out  smart-link.txt
shlomi:~$ pwd
/home/shlomi
shlomi:~$ cd Download/
shlomi:~/Download$ ls
Arcs  Docs  From_Win  Images  unpack
shlomi:~/Download$ echo Something
Something
shlomi:~/Download$ cd ..
shlomi:~$ exit

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2.4 Shell Goodies


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3 Getting Help


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3.1 The Man Pages


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3.2 Apropos


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3.3 The "Info" manuals


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3.4 The on-line HOWTO's


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3.5 Internet Resources


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4 Editing with Vi


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4.1 Invoking Vi


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4.2 Command Mode and Editing Mode


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4.3 Exiting from Vi


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4.4 Entering and Exiting from Editing Mode


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4.5 Deleting Text


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4.6 Saving the File


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4.7 Exiting without saving changes


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5 Links and References

Command-Line Usage

UNIX Help for Users - a detailed on-line guide that explains the basic of UNIX usage

The Linux Installation and Getting Started Guide - another good online book.

The Linux Users' Guide - a book available for download in PDF format.

X and KDE

The KDE Documentation - contains a user guide and a quick start guide.

Vi

The Vim HOWTO - contains a lot of information regarding Vi, including many links.


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