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Important commands

Important commands - Linux Tutorial

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Important commands

- [Instructor] There's a lot to know to administer a Linux server regardless of what (mumbles) is. You have to start somewhere though. And so what I've done is I've picked out a couple of the commands that we're gonna run at the command line in the shell environment. Sort of give you the tools you need to get started on the other commands. So I'm gonna through these and later I'll show you how to get more information about these commands so you can research them further. Right now, I've logged in on a terminal and I am user named User and I have the name of the box that I'm on, Linux-wnls and then a tilde. The tilde means Home directory. Now how do we know where the Home directory is? For every user there is a directory created by the user name in the Home Directory. So the first thing I'm gonna start out with is a command PWD for Print Working Directory. And what it shows us is that we are indeed in Home user. And Home is where you keep all of your more personal files. Your…

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