In today’s Command Line Basics we’ll create some customized commands with alias. You can think of alias as a sort of command line shortcut. Odds are, your system already has a few aliases defined by default. If you enter the command by it’s self, without an argument, it will tell you what aliases already exist …
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One of the most fundamental things you may want to do from the command line is to list the files in the current directory. That’s where the ls command comes in. ls stands for, you guessed it, list.
Continue reading Command Line Basics: List Files with lsToday’s Command Line Basics focuses on Navigating the File System with the cd command. cd stands for change directory. The cd command on its own will take you to your home directory (/home/userid/). If you have a directory in your home called Documents, then cd Documents will take you there. Following are the basic uses …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Navigating the File SystemIn the first installment of Command Line Basics, I explained the use of the echo command. In this first installment of Bash to Basics, I’ll show how to use the echo command in a script. Open up a text editor and paste the following text into it.
Continue reading Bash to Basics: Print Text with echoI’m starting a new feature called Command Line Basics. In this first installment I’m going to cover the echo command. The echo command is used for sending text to the standard output. In most cases, the standard output is your terminal. For example, to print the word “echo” to your terminal output, enter the command
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