Author: InfiniteLoop
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Switching Hosting Accounts
The Loop Log has gone through two migrations since its inception. It started out on the WordPress.com platform under a free account, more or less as a way to see if I wanted to start blogging again. I didn’t want to pay for web hosting unless I felt like I had enough content to justify…
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System Upgrade – Bash Script
Branching off of the Learning the Shell series of posts, I have started to explore the Writing Shell Scripts chapter of William Shotts’ The Linux Command Line. I am not completely unfamiliar with the concept of writing scripts to automate functions, yet most of my experience with scripting has been in the context of Windows…
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Sunday Review – Week Ending November 23rd, 2025
After working through the Learning the Shell chapter of William Shotts’s The Linux Command Line, I now have a solid foundation in how the shell works and how to interact with it effectively. Here’s a high-level summary of the main concepts covered across the ten sections: 1. What is “the Shell”? 2. Navigation 3. Looking…
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Let’s Talk About Bits, Baby
Some of you might be familiar with the concept that at the lowest level, all data in a computer is represented by 0s (zeros) and 1s (ones). This is quite spectacular to consider when you think about the many different formats computers can work with. For example, text, audio, and video. When you post a…
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Linux – Learning the Shell (Part 3)
In Part 2 of this series, I summarized the concepts and commands covered in Learning the Shell, Sections 5 through 8, from William Shotts’ online version of The Linux Command Line. In a follow-up post, I revisited two key principles from that week’s study (relative path directory references and globbing) as part of my Sunday…
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Sunday Review – Week Ending November 16th, 2025
Sundays are my designated review days. It’s a time I set aside to revisit the material I’ve worked on throughout the week and identify any concepts, functions, or processes that still feel unclear or that I want more practice with. It gives me a chance to reinforce what I’ve learned and resolve lingering questions. Here…
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Linux – Learning the Shell (Part 2)
As mentioned in my previous post, I am working through the online version of The Linux Command Line by William Shotts. My goal is to internalize this material before I begin the LPIC-1 Study Guide. I completed sections 1 through 4 of the chapter Learning the Shell the other day. Today I picked up where…