Re: how to practice.
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On 18/05/12 13:18, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and
> half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said
> to me lately that if you start loving black and white terminal then you
> will never look back to Windows GUI. I literally can experience this thing
> at the stage I am standing with Linux. As I consider myself a newbie in
> Linux but according to my previous experience if i don’t practice I will
> forget things very easy (as there are tons of commands to remember which I
> will forget with less or 0 practice). so i am here to ask all the old Pros
> that how you guys manage to remember all the commands and practice all the
> previous work. Since after the deployment of some Linux services there is
> only the log which i have to see for further errors. So how it is possible
> to keep in my mind all the old stuff and along with that I can move forward
> with the new goals.
As people have pointed out, the command line is the way to go. It can be
intimidating (i.e.`rm` unless you apply safeguards, does *mean* `rm`
especially if you put a `-Rf` after it) but that's part of its beauty:
simplicity & absolute power when run as root (or sudo).
I use man pages a lot. I also use vim for everything. Reading man pages
with less can be a tedious affair so I put:
`manvim() { vim -c "Man$1" -c 'silent! only';}` &:
`export TERM=xterm-256-color`
in my ~/.bashrc
&:
`source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim`
in my ~/.vimrc & then calling the man page like so `$ manvim foo`
& they're much easier to read. For everything else, I have hard copies
of "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth &
others & "Classic Shell Scripting: Hidden Commands that Unlock the Power
of Unix" by Arnold Robbins & "Sed & Awk" by Dale Dougherty. For
everything else, there's the internet.
As was pointed out by an earlier poster, just keep reading. I read
hundreds of pages of documentation a day on every different circumstance
I'm likely to encounter. That in itself is a full-time job :-).
Cheers,
Phil...
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currently (ab)using
Debian Squeeze, Fedora Verne, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Oneiric
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