This tutorial on the Unix command-line interface is designed to provide the aspiring web developer with just enough skills to manage files and directories through a Unix shell for the purpose of creating and maintaining a website.

To enable practice with remote server features such as ssh, scp, sftp, rsync, and setting up a web server, all lessons in this tutorial have been tested on a Raspberry Pi computer running Raspberry Pi OS on a home network set up as a web, ssh, and rsync server.

After completing this tutorial, you will be ready to start learning HTML using Getting Down with HTML.

Table of Contents

• Lesson 1: What is the Unix CLI?
• Lesson 2: Files and the file system
• Lesson 3: Editing files with GNU nano
• Lesson 4: The rm, cp, and mv commands
• Lesson 5: Editing files with Vim
• Lesson 6: Remote connecting with ssh, scp, and sftp
• Lesson 7: Locating file system resources with find
• Lesson 8: Searching for text within files using grep
• Lesson 9: Where to go from here