Bash Cookbook

Getting started with Bash and CLI fundamentals

First, we need to open a Linux terminal or shell. Depending on your flavor (distribution) of Linux, this will be done in one of several ways, but in Ubuntu, the easiest way is to navigate to the Applications menu and find one labeled terminal. The terminal or shell is the place where commands are entered by a user and executed in the same shell. Simply put, results (if any) are displayed, and the terminal will remain open, waiting for new commands to be entered. Once a shell has been opened, a prompt will appear, looking similar to the following:

rbrash@moon:~$

The prompt will be in the format of your username@YourComputersHostName followed by a delimiter. Throughout this cookbook, you will see ...