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Linux Command Line Interface: The Basics — Part 7

7. Better listing

Adding more order with the ls -l option

Now that we have more files and directories in the ~/workspace directory, is there a way of displaying them in a more…

Linux Command Line Interface: The Basics — Part 6

6. Creating files

The mkdir command makes directories, but what about files?

Wonderful question! In order to create files, execute the following inside our new dir2 directory:

Linux Command Line Interface: The Basics — Part 5

5.0 Creating directories

Creating new directories and files

If you are asked to start a new software project, you’ll almost certainly need to create a directory that can hold…

Linux Command Line Interface: The Basics — Part 4

4.0 Changing directories

Navigating directories using the CLI?

Bash provides a widely used command called cd or change directories command that allows the user to navigate…

Linux Command Line Interface: The Basics — Part 3

3.0 Listing directory contents

Let’s list the ~/workspace directory contents

So we now know that we are currently on the /home/root/workspace. The pwd command tells us that.

Linux Command Line Interface: The Basics — Part 2

2. The current directory

Where we are currently?

As the CLI does not provide a graphical user interface or GUI for interacting with files and folders, how do we…

Linux Command Line Interface: The Basics — Part 1

1. The Command Line Interface, CLI

The command line interface, better known as CLI, is just another way to interact with the computer. This technology works with text commands typed line by line…