Command line class redesigned
This page contains a proposed redesign that is not taking place. Instead, the Knowledge Bees committee is breaking command line into 2 classes and working with Reuse Program Coordinators and command line instructors to create the curriculum.
2 hour class (simply not enough time otherwise)
In order to cover the suggested topics, we really should have a system where we can run sudo. It would also be good to be able to mount a drive, or run a utility like "fsck". I suggest we fit the classroom terminals with small hard drives, then for the class, boot from a live cd and then be able to mount, format, fsck or whatever with the drives. The normal boot for the terminals would remain network and ltsp.
topics covered (initial list taken from ticket 15108):
- process control
- top
- kill, killall
- sudo, root
- hardware support
- lspci
- modprobe
- /proc (temperature, etc)
- bat_check and wc bat-time (part of the normal build/qc process)
- rmmod
- linux filesystem structure
- using gedit or nano or whatever text editor is necessary
- changing permissions
- groups
- grub & yaboot commands
- grub menu changes
- grep
- basic piping and redirection ( |, > , >>, etc.)
- networks
- ifconfig
- iwconfig and other wireless stuff
- dhclient
- apt
- apt-get install
- apt-cache
- dpkg-reconfigure, dpkg --configure -a
- practical stuff
- dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
- mount, cfdisk, fsck
- sudo lshw -xml >printme.xml
- apt-get upgrade
- config file syntax
-level 1 (these are things that builders should ideally learn)
basic structure
becoming comfortable
tab completion
up arrow
ls (listing files, looking at content)
editing - nano, including some configuration file syntax
-post build
iwconfig
wireless stuff - configuring networks
dhclient
reading logs
dmesg
apt-get
apt-cache
more detail about the file system
piping and redirection
top
conifg file syntax
modprobe
grub and yaboot commands
command line to run printme