Episode 40 - Bash Aliases vs. Functions

I cover some of the most basic Linux commands a new user is likely to want to learn and play with. This includes pwd, cd, ls, echo, cat, cp, mv, rm, and touch. We're just scratching the surface here...

We go through the 'cd' command, its options, and some useful aliases. We also cover some of the "universal" options for most Linux commands.

Discussion of the 'which' and 'tlrd' commands. Thank you for the comments.

You get to find out why I've been absent for so long. Also, we'll take a mild dive into the grep command. Cheers!

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What Virtual Machines are good for (evaluating Linux distros) and which ones to use. An example of how and why to use a Bash function. Overview of manual pages and the tldr command.

What is an alias? How to create them. What is a function? How to create them. Some miscellany along the way... :-)

We will go through a detailed example of how to string commands together on the command line using pipes.

This continues from Episode 37 on the terminal shell