Tutorial: Terminal Commands in Ubuntu Linux

[sudagatz]

Great video. It helped me a lot. My professor sucks.

[mikesynan]

this was great! thank you! so helpful for beginners...

[azozy00]

thank man but if u did the cp thing, it would be a complete job ,, thanks any way

[andysadova]

03:06 how the u exit stupid bastard ..dont make tutorial if u dont know how.u stupid son of the bich

[gulernhagen]

I have a small problem, when I watched the video I followed along myself in the Terminal, and then I explored some other directories as well. However, now when I try to get back to the Desktop directory by typing cd Desktop, just as I diid the first time, it says: No such file or directory. What do I do, and why does this occur?

[AppleFreakTripleS]

@gulernhagen Sorry for the late reply. If you havnt figured it out by now I still hope this helps. Of what I remember you cant just cd Desktop but instead you have to cd .. back as far as you can and then cd your way back to the Desktop. Ex)

cd ... (x5)

cd Users, cd User(you), cd Desktop

That was a basic example but I hope it helps.

[UltimateTomato]

Just what i needed, thanks! My fave colour scheme too.

[JesDav95]

What did you use to record this?:) Im using recordmydesktop atm but the quality isn't that great i might make a mistake with the mencoding or something. Any suggestions on how to get this to 720pHD?:) Thanks alot

[AppleFreakTripleS]

@JesDav95 honestly I do not remeber I believe I was using record my desektop and I also have no real idea how i got the quality to work so well it was more of an accident.

[america0014]

The > key is for basically taking a output of a command and making it into a text file. So if I cd to ~/Desktop and type out: find -iname "*.AVI" > all\ my\ videos\ on\ my\ Desktop.txt ...that'll search my Desktop (not case sensitive) and directories on my Desktop for any .AVI (movies) files and then creating a text file called "all my videos on my Desktop.txt" from what the search found. You can use the > in other ways but for this example I used it for a output text file.

[AppleFreakTripleS]

@america0014 Wow thanks for the comments and for taking the time to write all of this. I have learned and do use a lot of the commands you listed below. When I was making the video I was kind of rushing because I have not really worked with the video portion of linux. Which reminds me, do you know of any good screen capture programs for linux and how to use them for both you screen and voice. Also I have used RecordmyDesktop and it saves in .ogv and I do not know how to convert them for.....

[AppleFreakTripleS]

@AppleFreakTripleS ....YouTube and I dont know of a high quality video editor for linux. I primarily use Linux Mint 10 currently. If you can help that would be great and thanks for your time and comments.

[america0014]

@AppleFreakTripleS Well there's the command line recordmydesktop and the gtkrecordmydecktop. They're the same...only difference is one is a gui and one is straight command line. For recording voice, I recommend downloading: sudo apt-get install pavucontrol ...which is the pulseaudio volume control which is a mixer...that's where you can change it so you can record your voice along with recording video...at the same time.

[america0014]

@AppleFreakTripleS Editors for video are "Kdenlive", "Pitivi", and my fav is "Openshot" because it's freakin' ridiculously easy to render for youtube. There are alot more out there but these are the 3 I've used. Those all are good for adding soundtracks, clipping video...basically straight video editing. Now I've used another video editor but for converting movies to my mp4 player. It's called "Avidemux"...I'm not sure how well this works to render to youtube but for my mp4, video look good!

[america0014]

@AppleFreakTripleS Everything I've talked about is in the repositories...and Mint is based off Ubuntu so your all set with the apt-get command. Other terminal programs that I personally love are vim (like nano but with alot of commands from inside the vim window. Mplayer...from the command line this player is absolutely my favorite when playing media from just inside of the terminal and/or TTY (audio only in TTY). Comes in handy for listening to music with no X display lol. Good ol' Xorg :)

[america0014]

I don't know what you mean though when you say "I have not really worked with the video portion of linux", because your video looks very good and audio is very good too.

[AppleFreakTripleS]

@america0014 Wow ok thanks again for your reply it helps a lot. I will be sure to check it out. With the working with the video part of Linux I meant recording and rendering. Truthfully with the Ubuntu vids I just got lucky with how the sound and video work so well, but i haven't been able to do the same on Linux Mint.

Thanks again for your help.

[america0014]

Here's a awesome one that I still use daily, but isn't a command, is using the * key and the > key. Say if I cd to my /ect directory and want to view only the rc files but I don't know their full names (there are 7 files that begin with rc in that directory)...I can type out: sudo ls rc* ...with the * at the end...and that'll list all files that begin with rc. Example: rc0.d rc1.d rcS.d

[america0014]

Cat is a way to view text files without using a text editor. Say if I type: sudo cat /ect/sudoers  ...that'll display the sudoers file in the terminal as just print in the terminal. Good if you are afraid of overwriting a file by accident.

[america0014]

Now if I cd to /ect and type out: sudo tree -a ...that'll basically do the ls but in a tree, letting me see whats every directory from the directory that I'm in. Tree is a good one for seeing further directories.

[america0014]

Nice video. 3 other good commands in Linux are "man", "tree", "cat", which worded together sounds awesome but if I type out in a terminal: man ls ...that'll give me a manual on how to use ls. Another way most of the time is typing out:  ls --help ...that'll give me a shorter version of "man". Now the "-lettershere" are arguments or flags to commands so if I type: ls -a ...that'll use the ls command but show me everything in the directory like hidden files.