In my last post I discussed node.js. This can be installed on a server. Originally I wanted to talk through how I installed Node.js and what plugins I have come to use. I took a look around and found a few ppl struggling with ssh. I figured best to cover some of the basics of server based commands first. I expect any one reading this have some Technical/Programming experience.
I am going to assume you have a sever and are working from a Unix based machine(Linux or OSX).
Accessing your server:
usr: would be your user name to the server for the sake if this example lets say your user name is peter
host: is your server url/ip lets say for this example its Watson.com
so in your command window type in your server details press enter:
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#these are fake details use your user name and server in their place ssh peter@watson.com |
Enter you password and you should be in.
Basic Commands:
Here is a list of basic commands to help you move around the folders and manipulate the files.
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#this is how you comment if you where to write a script file ls |
Type that and it will list all the files and folders
That will show all the hidden files too.
Primary navigation command.
goes up a folder.
navigates to the folder with the name folderName
Takes you to your home directory.
creates a directory
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cp txtFile.txt somefolder/copyOfFile.txt |
copies file.txt to someFolder and renames the file.
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mv txtFile.txt somefolder/copyOfFile.txt |
moves file.txt to someFolder and renames the file.
deletes txtFile.txt
touch creates the file with no content
Displays resources and process
Downloading
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wget http://www.google.co.uk/index.html |
wget downloads a file at a location the above line downloads googles index.html page
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git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git |
git clone will clone a git repository to your current location
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svn checkout http://as3-youtube-data-api.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ as3-youtube-data-api-read-only |
svn checkout checks out a svn repo
Editors
You will edit a lot of text files on server a far bit. So I will list 3 Degrees of editors.
Easy
this one is easy all shortcuts (^ is ctrl) are listed at the bottom but not as powerful as the other two.
Medium
this is obviously more powerful than pico but to achieve that it uses states when u start you can’t type you need to enable typing. This is just a taster of how to use it. There are entire pages on the web that list all the shortcuts.
i
press i when u are not in edit mode and it will insert the cursor to allow you to type
press ESC then :wq
esc enters command mode w stands for write and q stands for quite so save and exit
press ESC then :q!
quit with out saving
Hard
best text editor i could write a whole post on it. If you wana use google it.
Compiling Code
In Unix you can tailer a build for your system. so its compiled for you and you alone 🙂 Lets say you downloaded a project from the internet using git or svn.
Complete in order below
cd
to the location of the files
set settings in the build for your machine its automated it just does it
compiles your code
tests the compile
installs your compiled code
Removes all the compiled files and cleans up for you
Comming soon 🙂 sudo pico /etc/motd
Posted in Mac + OSX, Node.js, Server, ssh, unix
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