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 side:~$ echo hello hello side:~$ echo $PATH $PATH is an environment variable that lists which directories the shell should search for programs when it is given a command side:~$ which echo Finds out which file is executed for a given program side:~$ pwd Gives the present working directory side:~$ cd /home Change directory to home a path that starts with / is an absolute path. Any other path is a relative path. side:~$ cd .. Changes 🔙 to the previous directory side:~$ ls Gives what is present inside the directory side:~$ ls -l This one gives us more information about each file or directory present Most important to remember side:~$ man ls man command gives you the manual pages for a certain program in this case the ls command.