The 50 Master the 50 Most Essential Linux & Terminal Commands for Beginners 🚀
Discover the top 50 Linux commands with Colt Steele and boost your UNIX skills! Perfect for Linux, macOS, WSL, and more. Start mastering the terminal today!

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2.7M views • Nov 3, 2021

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Learn the 50 most popular Linux commands from Colt Steele. All these commands work on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment. 🐱
✏️ Colt Steele developed this course.
🔗 The Linux Command Handbook by Flavio Copes: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-linux-commands-handbook/
🔗 If you want to learn more about terminal commands and become a software engineer, check out the bootcamp Colt built with Springboard: https://www.springboard.com/courses/software-engineering-career-track-cvs1/
⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction
⌨️ (0:04:37) Why use the command line?
⌨️ (0:06:56) The world of operating systems
⌨️ (0:10:56) What is Linux?
⌨️ (0:16:58) Shells and Bash
⌨️ (0:19:28) Setup For Linux Users
⌨️ (0:20:28) Setup For Mac Users
⌨️ (0:21:05) Setup For Windows (WSL)
⌨️ (0:29:43) Using The Terminal
⌨️ (0:31:12) whoami
⌨️ (0:32:34) man
⌨️ (0:33:40) clear
⌨️ (0:36:42) intro to options
⌨️ (0:39:05) pwd
⌨️ (0:41:07) ls
⌨️ (0:49:21) cd
⌨️ (1:00:40) mkdir
⌨️ (1:06:33) touch
⌨️ (1:12:03) rmdir
⌨️ (1:13:05) rm
⌨️ (1:21:26) open
⌨️ (1:23:55) mv
⌨️ (1:27:51) cp
⌨️ (1:31:56) head
⌨️ (1:33:02) tail
⌨️ (1:35:27) date
⌨️ (1:36:02) redirecting standard output
⌨️ (1:41:48) cat
⌨️ (1:46:15) less
⌨️ (1:49:17) echo
⌨️ (1:51:38) wc
⌨️ (1:53:52) piping
⌨️ (1:56:43) sort
⌨️ (2:01:09) uniq
⌨️ (2:06:59) expansions
⌨️ (2:17:08) diff
⌨️ (2:21:01) find
⌨️ (2:32:10) grep
⌨️ (2:36:52) du
⌨️ (2:40:55) df
⌨️ (2:44:04) history
⌨️ (2:47:32) ps
⌨️ (2:51:50) top
⌨️ (2:54:02) kill
⌨️ (3:00:13) killall
⌨️ (3:01:37) jobs, bg, and fg
⌨️ (3:09:40) gzip
⌨️ (3:12:18) gunzip
⌨️ (3:15:27) tar
⌨️ (3:23:36) nano
⌨️ (3:31:17) alias
⌨️ (3:42:48) xargs
⌨️ (3:50:57) ln
⌨️ (4:01:49) who
⌨️ (4:03:47) su
⌨️ (4:08:32) sudo
⌨️ (4:18:36) passwd
⌨️ (4:21:54) chown
⌨️ (4:31:08) Understanding permissions
⌨️ (4:47:15) chmod
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👾 Katia Moran
👾 BlckPhantom
👾 Nick Raker
👾 Otis Morgan
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--
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❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp
✏️ Colt Steele developed this course.
🔗 The Linux Command Handbook by Flavio Copes: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-linux-commands-handbook/
🔗 If you want to learn more about terminal commands and become a software engineer, check out the bootcamp Colt built with Springboard: https://www.springboard.com/courses/software-engineering-career-track-cvs1/
⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction
⌨️ (0:04:37) Why use the command line?
⌨️ (0:06:56) The world of operating systems
⌨️ (0:10:56) What is Linux?
⌨️ (0:16:58) Shells and Bash
⌨️ (0:19:28) Setup For Linux Users
⌨️ (0:20:28) Setup For Mac Users
⌨️ (0:21:05) Setup For Windows (WSL)
⌨️ (0:29:43) Using The Terminal
⌨️ (0:31:12) whoami
⌨️ (0:32:34) man
⌨️ (0:33:40) clear
⌨️ (0:36:42) intro to options
⌨️ (0:39:05) pwd
⌨️ (0:41:07) ls
⌨️ (0:49:21) cd
⌨️ (1:00:40) mkdir
⌨️ (1:06:33) touch
⌨️ (1:12:03) rmdir
⌨️ (1:13:05) rm
⌨️ (1:21:26) open
⌨️ (1:23:55) mv
⌨️ (1:27:51) cp
⌨️ (1:31:56) head
⌨️ (1:33:02) tail
⌨️ (1:35:27) date
⌨️ (1:36:02) redirecting standard output
⌨️ (1:41:48) cat
⌨️ (1:46:15) less
⌨️ (1:49:17) echo
⌨️ (1:51:38) wc
⌨️ (1:53:52) piping
⌨️ (1:56:43) sort
⌨️ (2:01:09) uniq
⌨️ (2:06:59) expansions
⌨️ (2:17:08) diff
⌨️ (2:21:01) find
⌨️ (2:32:10) grep
⌨️ (2:36:52) du
⌨️ (2:40:55) df
⌨️ (2:44:04) history
⌨️ (2:47:32) ps
⌨️ (2:51:50) top
⌨️ (2:54:02) kill
⌨️ (3:00:13) killall
⌨️ (3:01:37) jobs, bg, and fg
⌨️ (3:09:40) gzip
⌨️ (3:12:18) gunzip
⌨️ (3:15:27) tar
⌨️ (3:23:36) nano
⌨️ (3:31:17) alias
⌨️ (3:42:48) xargs
⌨️ (3:50:57) ln
⌨️ (4:01:49) who
⌨️ (4:03:47) su
⌨️ (4:08:32) sudo
⌨️ (4:18:36) passwd
⌨️ (4:21:54) chown
⌨️ (4:31:08) Understanding permissions
⌨️ (4:47:15) chmod
🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters:
👾 Wong Voon jinq
👾 hexploitation
👾 Katia Moran
👾 BlckPhantom
👾 Nick Raker
👾 Otis Morgan
👾 DeezMaster
👾 AppWrite
--
Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org
Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news
❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp
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