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Mohd Talha
Mohd Talha

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The Shell

#bash #linux #discuss #beginners

Hi everyone, i am sharing some useful information of the Bash Terminal with important beginner friendly commands.

What is the shell?
Character User Interface: The Shell, is available on nearly all platforms, nearly all are roughly the same: they allow you to run programs, give them input, and inspect their output in a semi-structured way.

Here we focus on Bash Shell
Some useful commands -

side:~$ date Wed 09 Sep 2020 with the current time will be displayed
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side:~$ echo hello hello
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side:~$ echo $PATH $PATH is an environment variable that lists which directories the shell should search for programs when it is given a command
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side:~$ which echo Finds out which file is executed for a given program
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side:~$ pwd Gives the present working directory
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side:~$ cd /home Change directory to home a path that starts with / is an absolute path. Any other path is a relative path.
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side:~$ cd .. Changes 🔙 to the previous directory
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side:~$ ls Gives what is present inside the directory
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side:~$ ls -l This one gives us more information about each file or directory present
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Most important to remember

side:~$ man ls man command gives you the manual pages for a certain program in this case the ls command.
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What commands would you like to add here?

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Jérémie Astor •

Did you consider putting your code in blocks?
as in

side:~$ date Wed 09 Sep 2020 with the current time will be displayed
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Mohd Talha •

Ohh sorry, thank you so much, i will do it now. 😊