Computing from the Command Line

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ This is a work-in-progress book on Linux command line and Shell Scripting for beginner to intermediate level users.

Click this link for an earlier version of the book in this repo.

See my curated list on Linux CLI and Shell scripting for more learning resources.

E-book

For web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/

• Links to pdf/epub versions of the book will be added once they are done
• See https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/ for a list of my other books

Feedback and Contributing

Open an issue if you spot any typo/errors.

⚠️ ⚠️ Please DO NOT submit pull requests. Main reason being any modification requires changes in multiple places.

I'd also highly appreciate your feedback about the book.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/learn_byexample

Acknowledgements

• stackoverflow and unix.stackexchange — for getting answers on pertinent questions related to cli tools
• /r/commandline/, /r/linux4noobs/ and /r/linux/ — helpful forums
• Warning and Info icons by Amada44 under public domain
• oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner for optimizing images
• mdBook — for web version of the book
  • mdBook-pagetoc — for adding table of contents for each page
  • minify-html — for minifying html files

License

The book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The code snippets are licensed under MIT, see LICENSE file