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Command Line Fundamentals
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Command Line Fundamentals

by Vivek Nagarajan
December 2018
Beginner
314 pages
5h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Appendix

About

This section is included to assist the students to perform the activities in the book. It includes detailed steps that are to be performed by the students to achieve the objectives of the activities.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Command Line

Activity 1: Navigating the Filesystem and Viewing Files

  1. Use the cd command to navigate to the appropriate folder and use less to read the relevant information:

    robin ~ $ cd Lesson1/data

    robin ~/Lesson1/data $ cd pinaceae/cedrus/deodara/

    robin ~/Lesson1/data/pinaceae/cedrus/deodara $ less data.txt

  2. Use the cd command to navigate the appropriate folder and view the file with less. Use the / command to search for the phrase "derives from" and read the rest of the sentence to get the answer: ...
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