CHAPTER 12
Shells
- The command line
- History
- Filename expansion: *, ?, [ ]
- Standard input/output and redirection
- Linux files
- The file structure
- Listing, displaying, and printing files
- Managing directories: mkdir, rmdir, ls, cd, pwd
- File and directory operations: find, cp, mv, rm, ln
The shell is a command interpreter that provides a line-oriented interactive and non-interactive interface between the user and the operating system. You enter commands on a command line; they are interpreted by the shell and then sent as instructions to the operating system. (The command-line interface is accessible from GNOME and KDE through a terminal window, from ...
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