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Type the following code into your terminal, then press Enter: echo "Hello World" This will produce the following output: Hello World

Files and directories (another name for folders) are at the heart of Linux, so being able to create, view, move, and delete them from the command line is very important and quite powerful. These file manipulation commands allow you to perform the same tasks that a graphical file explorer would perfo...

The ls command has several options that can be used together to show more information. Details/Rights The l option shows the file permissions, size, and last modified date. So if the root directory contained a dir called test and a file someFile the command: user@linux-computer:~$ ls -l Would ...

Linux has a command for almost any tasks and most of them are intuitive and easily interpreted. Getting Help in Linux CommandUsabilityman <name>Read the manual page of <name>.man <section> <name>Read the manual page of <name>, related to the given section.man -k <e...

Linux uses some conventions for present and parent directories. This can be a little confusing for beginners. Whenever you are in a terminal in Linux, you will be in what is called the current working directory. Often your command prompt will display either the full working directory, or just the l...

Using The Terminal The examples in this document assume that you are using a POSIX-compliant (such as bash, sh, zsh, ksh) shell. Large portions of GNU/Linux functionality are achieved using the terminal. Most distributions of Linux include terminal emulators that allow users to interact with a...

A common and task of someone using the Linux Command Line (shell) is to search for files/directories with a certain name or containing certain text. There are 2 commands you should familiarise yourself with in order to accomplish this: Find files by name find /var/www -name '*.css' This will...