August 2022
Beginner
992 pages
24h 14m
English
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Chapter 3Managing Files, Directories, and Text
In the original Linux years, to get anything done you had to work with the Gnu/Linux shell. The shell is a special interactive utility that allows users to run programs, manage files, handle processes, and so on. The shell provides a command-line interface, which furnishes a prompt at which you can enter text-based commands. These commands are actually programs. There are literally thousands of commands you can enter at the command line. However, you need to use only a few hundred commands on a regular basis in your daily job.
While it is highly likely that you have had multiple exposures to many of the commands in this chapter, ...