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Advanced Commands in Linux

Edward Falzon

Instructor: Edward Falzon

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1.5 hours
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Hands-on learning
Learn, practice, and apply job-ready skills with expert guidance
4.7

(20 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1.5 hours
Learn at your own pace
Hands-on learning

What you'll learn

  • Download a whole Web-site.

  • Synchronize a directory to a backup location.

  • Search for, monitor and forcibly terminate applications.

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Taught in English
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About this Guided Project

Learn step-by-step

In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:

  1. Introduction

  2. Download anything with wget

  3. Continuing with wget

  4. Optional Activity: Shorten the wget command

  5. Synchronize files with rsync

  6. Monitoring Running Processes

  7. Terminating ("Killing") Processes

  8. Bonus Command for the Awesome

  9. Optional Activity Capstone

Recommended experience

No experience required. This guided project is appropriate for beginners. It may help to do "Command Line Basics in LinuxOpens in a new tab" first.

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