Debian GNU/Linux Crash Course -- Lesson 2

Debian GNU/Linux Crash Course -- Lesson 2

In this lesson we cover several shell commands including mv, cp, tree, tee, find, man, info, apropos, ls, less, and more.

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[Devourer09]

Isn't sudo specific to Ubuntu and not Debian?

[MartianStation]

No, sudo is available on most Linux type systems.

[Devourer09]

Really? I've only seen it with Ubuntu. So it's a program right so you could install it on any Linux system right?

[MartianStation]

Exactly. sudo is a program that you can install and set up. I'm going to do a lesson on how to do it on debian. In fact i think i'll do the next lesson on permissions and sudo.

[Charas66]

thx, again very helpfull :)

but i have 2 questions:

- when i type find ... --> it seems it search only in the current directory and no subfolders are included into the search, what did i wrong?

- what is the shortcut for leaving manuel descriptions in the prompt (also needed for the less command, ...)

i misinterpret this word and also my brute force search failed :D

sry english is not my mother tongue ;)

Keep it up! I like ;)

Greetz Charas66

[MartianStation]

Hi Charas66,

the find command follows the following syntax

find [options] [path] [expression]

so if you want to search ~/ for text you would type

find ~/ -name text*

you can also use the locate commands which does an indexed search.

As for exiting a man page or less hit q.

Hope that helps!

[merkur32123]

@Devourer09 Becaus of the Fact MacOS is Unix-Like too, you can install it on a Mac too!

[rinkavideos64]

@MartianStation What happens if you sudo apt-get remove sudo, then?

[Devourer09]

I learned a lot about file permissions from TLDP's Introduction to Linux HOWTO. I'm still reading through it. It's quite long.

[Charas66]

thx, now i got it :)