Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 Edition, Eighth Edition

Chapter 32. Command-Line Master Class

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• Why Use the Shell?

• Basic Commands

• Combining Commands

• Multiple Terminals

• Date and Time

• Capturing Screen Images

• Reference

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In the earlier years of Linux, people made a big fuss of the graphical environments that were available—they rushed to tell new users that you really did not need to keep going back to the command line to type things. Now that Linux is more mature, people accept that the command line is still a reality, and a welcome one. Although the GUI does make life easier for day-to-day tasks, your options are limited by what the developers want you to have—you cannot bring commands together in new ways, and neither can you use any of the GUI features if, for ...