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The 12 days of Unix

Opinion
Dec 15, 20143 mins

The 12 Days of Unix Your first twelve days using Unix can be some of the most eye-opening and insightful days in your career.  How do you pass on the excitement of Unix to new users?  You sing to them! On the first day of Unix, my admin showed to me how to roam and go home with cd

On the second day of Unix, my admin showed to me ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the third day of Unix, my admin showed to me the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the fourth day of Unix, my admin showed to me how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the fifth day of Unix, my admin showed to me sed and awk!!!!!   how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the sixth day of Unix, my admin showed to me command completion   sed and awk!!!!!   how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the seventh day of Unix, my admin showed to me scripting with bash   command completion   sed and awk!!!!!   how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the eigth day of Unix, my admin showed to me ifconfig and netstat   scripting with bash   command completion   sed and awk!!!!!   how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the ninth day of Unix, my admin showed to me systemctl   ifconfig and netstat   scripting with bash   command completion   sed and awk!!!!!   how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the tenth day of Unix, my admin showed to me NFS and Samba   systemctl   ifconfig and netstat   scripting with bash   command completion   sed and awk!!!!!   how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the eleventh day of Unix, my admin showed to me LVM   NFS and Samba   systemctl   ifconfig and netstat   scripting with bash   command completion   sed and awk!!!!!   how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

On the telfth day of Unix, my admin showed to me firewalld   LVM   NFS and Samba   systemctl   ifconfig and netstat   scripting with bash   command completion   sed and awk!!!!!   how to use vi   the chmod command   ls -l   and how to roam and go home with cd

Maybe it takes a lot longer than 12 days to learn Unix well enough to base your career on it the way I have, but there’s nothing quite like the excitement of those first days of discovering this amazing OS.  A merry Unix to you!  I hope you still get excited every day and learn something new every week.

sandra_henrystocker

Sandra Henry-Stocker was a programmer, Linux systems administrator, security engineer and Linux journalist for most of her 30-year career. She describes herself as "USL" (Unix as a second language) but remembers enough English to write books and buy groceries. She lives in the mountains in Virginia where, when not working with or writing about Unix, she's chasing the bears away from her bird feeders. Tune into her 2-Minute Linux video tutorials and take command of your command line.

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