This course introduces you to the basic concepts and commands you need to start using Bash on Linux and Mac OS X.

Overview
Why Bash?
What to expect from this course
UNIX, Linux, Mac OS
The UNIX philosophy
Introduction
A Word of Warning
Prerequisites
Starting bash
Starting bash on linux
A simple commandline session
A small difference between Linux and Mac OS
Review of the first session
Check that you are running Bash
Commands, Arguments and Options
Getting help
Putting it into practice
History
Summary
Introduction
Appetizer
Creating Files
About Filenames
Filenames with special characters
Absolute and Relative Paths
Copying Files
Copying Directories
Moving Files
Deleting Files
Safety first: the -i switch
Summary
Introduction
Wildcards
Brace Expansion
Output Redirection
Pipes
Command Substitution
The Terminal vs. The Commandline
Some Key Combinations
Searching Through History
Summary
Introduction
Editing Text Files on the Command Line
Sorting with sort
Head and Tail
Counting with wc
Searching for Text with grep
Searching for Files with find
Replacing characters with tr
Advanced tools
Column-based data
Summary
Introduction
Background jobs
Job Control
Killing jobs and Processes
Inspecting processes
Summary
Introduction
Aliases
Saving your customization with .profile and .bashrc
Environment Variables
Setting your default shell
Summary