Unix for the Beginning Mage by Joe Topjian

Unix for the Beginning Mage by Joe Topjian

By Joe Topjian

Unix for the start Mage is a brief publication that teaches the very fundamentals to studying the Unix (and Unix-like working platforms reminiscent of BSD and Linux) command line through the use of spells and mages as metaphors. every thing from typing your first command to studying approximately Symbolic hyperlinks is roofed.

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Well the spam just keeps coming in and taking up more and more disk space on the computer. Later on, after working on your research paper for the past four hours, decide to finally save it. When you hit “save”, an error pops up saying “Out of Disk Space”! s because all that spam hogged it. If you were to use partitions, you would not have run into that problem. That invisible hatch would kick in and say “Hey! You stop right there! ” Viewing Partitions You can use a command called df to see the partitions on the computer.

If you just let the water pour over your hand, that is like a Character Device and streams. However, if you cup your hands until they are full and then let the water fall, that is a Block Device -- it reads a bunch of stuff then lets it all go at once. An example of a Block Device would be your hard drive and an example of a Character Device would be a modem. That covers just about everything with file types in Unix! 57 Spells Learned in Chapter 5 Spell What it stands for What it does chmod [shield] [file] Change Mode Changes the Shield on a file ln [file1] [file2] Link Links two files together 58 Chapter Six The Young Mage learns more details about casting spells: Paths are revisited; Controlling the flow of output; and a cute calendar.

Before I end this lesson, I just want to remind you again how dangerous rm -rf can be if used the wrong way. t allow you to do such a thing. However, an archmage with more power can do it -- but why would they? It would be the same as burning your house down. Just be careful, Young Mage! 31 Exercises for Chapter 3 Remember to start from your home directory for each one. 1) Cloning boxes Go to your spell closet. Create a new fireproof box and place a copy of your shelf inside. Next, make a copy of your fireproof box called iceproofbox.

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