Dorcas

CS grad 🎓 | Passionate about tech and lifelong learning | #100Devs

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@MotlalepulaSel6 😂😂😂

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@LeahTCodes Hope you feel better soon, Leah.

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I have a question buzzing in my mind: Any tips on where a first-year uni student can snag a second-hand or donated laptop for their studies? 🤔

*Know of any awesome orgs or programs helping out?

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@Eduardo82545622 Congradulations on your graduation, Eduardo!

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@TheTshegofatso 🥳🥳🥳

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@MotlalepulaSel6 It's a good way to learn. You'll be alright😀

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@MotlalepulaSel6 Ah, got it.

Have fun with the project😊

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@TheTshegofatso Congratulations, Tshegofatso🥳🥳🥳

Seems like just yeaterday when you were saying "road to 20k"

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@TheTshegofatso Looks delicious☺

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Absolutely excited about this chapter🤓

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This was an interesting chapter demonstrating how to use variables to control the look and feel of the system.

Looking forward to Chapter 8: Bash Scripting😎

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Done with Chapter 7.

The chapter gave a brief introduction to variables, differentiating between Environment Variables and User Variables.

Variables are basically strings in key-value pairs: KEY=value.

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An example of a variable is the PATH variable, which I've encountered multiple times in the past without really understanding what it does🤔

We can view the contents of a variable using the echo command.

echo $PATH will display the list of directories found in the PATH variable

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@jasheloper Love the setup, Jashele!

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I always enjoy running the commands in my shell and seeing the output, even though somethings look like gibberish🫣

On to chapter 7 which covers variables😎

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Continuing to learn Linux.

This was an interesting chapter about managing processes. It covers how to:
- view processes with the ps command and aux options.
- filter search results with grep to find a particular process.

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- discover which processes are using the most resources with the top command
- prioritize processes with the nice command
- kill processes using the kill command and signals such as SIGKILL, SIGTERM, etc.
- scheduling processes using the at daemon.

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@collins_deniqua Yaaaaay! 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

Congratulations, Deniqua! You did very well.