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Well, I've been dreading writing this section of the website
because I don't feel like an "expert" in this
area, but it's part of my online knowledge and I thought
that maybe a newbie could help other newbies with Linux.
With most of the current distributions of Linux you have
an xwindow system that looks remarkably easy to understand...umm,
but eventually you have to go to a shell...eventually...yes...you
have to face the evil that is the command line. Now
don't worry, this is okay, just breathe deep, there you
go, keep breathing deeply, continue, come on, getting lightheaded
yet? Soon you'll be in that state of euphoria where
you'll be game enough to start putting in some commands.
Okay, it isn't that bad, the thing you have to do is remember
back to the days of DOS and Microsoft and when you had
to type in commands to get anything done. Basically
that's the best way to describe it to Windows users.
Okay, so you're at a terminal and you don't know any commands,
here are a few (the list will expand as I learn more).
cd
- this basically works like the old MSDOS command, this
stands for Change Directory and basically you can change
the directory your in with this command.
cp
- this is the copy command. Basically you can use
this command if you want to copy the contents of a file
to some other place. Not so different from the Copy
command in MSDOS. You can use this to copy the content
to other folders, etc.
ls
- This is the list command, very similar to the MSDOS
Command Dir. Basically it lists all the contents
in a directory or a folder. This had a bunch of
wildcards you can add to it, like ls -l will list the
file in it's long format... ls -a will allow you to see
all the files in a directory including hidden files.
mkdir - This command will make a directory. The
command would look something like mkdir testfolder and
this would create a directory with the name testfolder.
mv
- this stands for move...basically this allows you to
move files from one directory to another or you can move
it within the same folder.
rm
- this stands for remove. This will allow you to
delete files without confirmation. Okay a delete
command, basically you can delete files but also important
ones you didn't mean to delete, umm, well, yeah, okay
you know how I know this fact.
rmdir - This will allow you to remove a directory, if
you add rmdir -r the directory doesn't have to be empty
before deleting it.
passwd - if you type in passwrd it will allow you to change
your password. It will ask for you old one and then
make you type in the new one twice...the password has
to be at least 6 characters long.
Okay, this is it for now because I don't have my linux
box open at the moment and I'm not exactly pleased with
what I wrote here, hmm, okay so this tutorial is at best
so so...I'll need to work on this more and get back to
you. If there are any Linux pros out there that
would like to write articles for this website, just drop
me an email...trust me, I'm humble, I don't pretend to
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