Linux_curated_resources.md

Handful of useful resources for Linux command line and bash shell scripting

Guide to choosing your Linux Distribution, list of applications, etc: awesome-linux and computefreely

#️⃣ Table of Contents

• Courses: online text tutorials
• Courses: online video/interactive tutorials
• Shell Scripting
  • Scripting companion
• Books
• Tips and Tricks
• Resources for specific commands
  • Text and File processing
  • Miscellaneous
• Further Reading
• Forums

Courses: online text tutorials

• ryanstutorial
• Bash Guide
• snipcademy
• linuxcommand
• basics of linux commands
• linux basics
• learnenough

Courses: online video/interactive tutorials

• linuxjourney
• udacity
• edx
• memrise
• shortcutfoo
• youtube — command line basics

Shell Scripting

• Bash Guide
• ryanstutorial
• bash handbook
• writing shell scripts
• snipcademy
• learnshell
• bash shell scripting
• Serious Shell Programming — focuses on POSIX-compliant Bourne Shell for portability

Scripting companion

• shellcheck — linting tool to avoid common mistakes and improve your script
• bash FAQ, bash Practices and bash pitfalls — comprehensive lists
• Google shell style guide
• tips for better scripting and robust scripting
• bash reference — nicely formatted and explained well

Books

• Bash Guide
• The Linux Command Line
• Unix for beginning Mage
• Linux kernel and its insides

Tips and Tricks

• art of command line
• command line tricks
• explainshell — write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument
• commandlinefu — also explore different tags like awk, grep, sed, etc

Resources for specific commands

• Linux Commands In Structured Order
• discussion on useful Linux commands
• general purpose command line tools

Text and File processing

• My example based tutorial for various cli text processing tools
• All about replacing strings in file(s)
• Text Processing Commands
• ad-hoc data analysis
• grep
  • My book on GNU grep and ripgrep
  • alvinalexander
  • conqueringthecommandline
  • ripgrep
  • ack/ag
• sed
  • My book on GNU sed
  • gentle intro
  • grymoire — detailed tutorial, has details on differences between various sed versions as well
  • sed one liners explained
  • sed by example
  • Learning Linux Commands: sed
• awk
  • My book on GNU awk
  • gawk manual for complete reference, examples, extensions and more
  • gentle intro
  • grymoire — detailed tutorial, covers information about different awk versions as well
  • awk one liners explained
  • awk by example
• My tutorial on perl one-liners
• sort
• find
  • alvinalexander
  • conqueringthecommandline

Miscellaneous

• Unix and Linux Permissions Primer
• Linux Permissions Primer Part I — archive copy of catchlinux website
• rsync
• htop
• crontab examples

Further Reading

• Unix as IDE
• command line Q&A
• learn-anything — linux
• awesome linux resources
• awesome shell resources and awesome bash
• bash hackers wiki
• stronger shell — learnings from Matt Bowen and list of resources
• bash env variables
• Application lists — for audio, video, graphics & design, development, games etc
  • arch wiki
  • alternativeto
  • GNU packages
  • youtube-dl
  • qutebrowser
• Linux/Bash on Windows
  • git-bash
  • cygwin
  • Linux Subsystem for Windows by Microsoft

Forums

Read instructions provided by respective forums before asking a question. Try solving it yourself before asking — searching online, manual, ask a colleague, etc.

• unix stackexchange
• commandline
• /r/bash
• /r/linux4noobs
• /r/linuxquestions
• /r/linux — general linux discussion
• askubuntu — ubuntu specific as well as general linux topics
• TuxURLs — Linux news aggregator