May 31st, 2008

Basic Shell Scripting

Hello to all. Sorry for delayed posting of posts.I was little bit busy in Server settings of RHEL.

So you have in mind what is shell scripting ????

Shell scripts or simply scripts are collection or group of command that are stored in a file.Now you will think what’s the use of it ?
Actually it is not possible to run each and every command manually on pc.If this is a repetative job then its again became a headache. So we use Scripting to store those commands and get Outputs. Even we can sheduled the script to run at particular time.

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May 17th, 2008

Why You Should Use Ubuntu 8.04

Linux-The first word that comes to the mind of any normal human being is an Operating System which is not at all User Friendly, you need to have a real in depth knowledge of Computers to use Linux. Well all this was true earlier but not now! Linux is has developed a lot and is very userfriendly as well! Linux has many Variants like Windows XP has in the form of Home and Professional Editions, these variants of Linux are known as Distro and we are going to talk about the most popular linux distro “Ubuntu”

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May 17th, 2008

Basic Command - II

cd :- change directory

usage
cd path [ and press enter ]
eg.
cd /boot
cd /var/www/html

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May 6th, 2008

Basic Commands

As we are now aware of file system now its good to learn about basic Linux Commands that will help in our day to day life
To run all these commands please use a terminal window.
To run terminal follow following commands
Press Alt+F2
Type gnome-terminal or use xterm

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May 5th, 2008

File System in Linux

Well it’s a good thing to know about file & folder system in Linux. Like in windows, Program Files are stored is “Program Files” and System components in “windows” folder , same way it is assigned in Linux too .

So here it starts

“/” :- this is root of all the file system. All things [ including hardware ] comes under it.

“/boot” :- As the name indicates it contains boot [ grub ] files.

“/dev” :- Contains device files [ as I said in earlier post that hardware are in file form ]
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