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Navigating a command-line shell

Navigating a command-line shell

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Navigating a command-line shell

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- [Instructor] Now that we've logged in, let's start navigated within our Linux server using the command's line shell. Over the next couple videos, we'll be seeing a lot of commands. I recommend taking a look at the free quick reference manual that comes with this course. It's also helpful just to read the manual and the easiest way is to visit manpages.ubuntu.com. With the browser and search for a particular command. Well, we've got a prompt and that's about it. Let's take a look around. Right now, all I can see is the command prompt which is pretty short. Let's break down the prompt so we know what we're looking at. It starts with the username that I'm logged in with, which, in my case, is jpeck. This is followed by @ then the name of the server, which is sandbox. There's a colon and a tilde. Tilde, in unix-like systems, means the uuer's home directory. Home directories contain user data, settings and customizations, and so forth. The final character in the prompt, the dollar sign…

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