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6. Using the Command-Line Apps

Brian Schell1 
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Flint, MA, USA
 

Now that you can get to a command line and move things around in there, it’s time to get some real work done.

In Chapter 4, I showed you the best two or three apps for most tasks. These were all well-known apps that have millions of users, and although some of them have been around a while, they’re all still constantly updated and maintained.

In this chapter, I’ll show you a few examples of the most common and popular commands to do most tasks, but keep in mind that people have been doing these tasks using similar tools literally for decades (Unix came about in the 1970s, and Linux is ...

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