Red Hat Linux

RH124-Day01
Written by Razib Shahriar Rubence
Thursday, 09 June 2011 04:52 - Last Updated Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:03

----------Day 01:
----------Date: Friday 17th, June
Time: 19:00 to 22:00
-----------------------------------------01. Introduction and Orientation
--------------------------------------------02. Linux History and Redhat Certification
--------------------------------------------------------03. Linux Installation I - Graphical Installation
------------------------------------------------------------04. Introduction to vi/vim editor
--------------------------------------------- vi (pronounced vee-EYE, short for “visual”) provides basic text editing capabilities.
- Two Mode - Insert Mode and Command Mode
- Insert mode by pressing "Insert". Command mode by pressing escape
- You can type whatever you want in Insert Mode
- Command mode by its name indicate you can command the vi editor to perform something save,search and replace,move cursor,quit without saving,cut,copy,paste,remove etc
- Being in Command Mode you can switch to Insert mode by simply pressing "i"
- in command mode type:
:q! --> to exit without saving
:wq --> save and exit
:w --> save
More detail about vi will be shown in our LAB Class when we will work with various files.
Students are encouraged to visit:

http://www.washington.edu/computing/unix/vi.html http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html

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RH124-Day01
Written by Razib Shahriar Rubence
Thursday, 09 June 2011 04:52 - Last Updated Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:03

05. Getting started with Bash
--------------------------------------------------------------Command = 1st on command line
Option = starts with - or -Argument = additional parameters

For example with the command "yum install httpd* -y" yum = command install = argument httpd* = argument
-y = option (which measn dont ask me whether you do or not do my answer is