Track 1 of 12
Foundations
Get comfortable at the prompt.
Beginner 7 lessons Prerequisite: Nothing. Start here.
Start from a fresh Termux install and learn the commands everything else is built on. You will move around the filesystem, read and search files, chain commands together, and set sensible permissions. Nothing here is advanced. It is the vocabulary the rest of the course assumes.
By the end, you can find your way around a Linux filesystem and get what you need out of a file.
Lessons in this track
- 01 Getting started with Termux Install Termux and take your first confident steps at the command prompt, one command at a time.
- 02 Navigating the filesystem Learn how paths really work and how to move around the filesystem with confidence in Termux.
- 03 Reading and searching text Read files and search inside them line by line using cat, head, tail, less and grep.
- 04 Pipes and redirection Chain commands together with pipes, and send their output into files with redirection.
- 05 File permissions Learn to read the ten-character mode string and set safe permissions on every file with chmod.
- 06 Managing packages Update, search, install and remove packages with pkg, and know where they land.
- 07 Shell config and aliases Shape the shell you get every time you open Termux with a few small edits.