Planet Drupal TV

This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server's document root and that is the example we use here.

This command line video covers the three most common commands for compressing and archiving files, including how to get them back out again. Most commonly you first hit the need for these when you download a file and need to get it uncompressed. We'll cover the following commands:

• zip
• unzip
• gzip
• gunzip
• tar

The next video covering command line basics, this one covers common commands for dealing with files:

• cp
• mv
• rm

Fair warning: I say the word "stuff" way too many times in this video. Please just bear with it.

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This is the first video in a series that shows basic command line usage for *nix systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X, and on Windows, using applications like Cygwin. This video shows the following commands and spends the most time explaining how to move around your file structure from the command line:

• pwd
• ls (and ls -al)
• less
• cd
• man
• clear

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Windows XP doesn't come with native tools for working with some common development tasks such as creating and applying patches. In the *nix world the tools diff and patch are standard in a dev toolbox. Cygwin will give Windows users a Linux-like command line and the ability to install a number of common Linux tools. This video will show you how to install the Cygwin base as well as diff, patch and CVS, which is the version control system that drupal.org uses for all of the core and contributed code.