From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1
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Bash, home directories, and permissions - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1
Bash, home directories, and permissions
- The Linux shell is what provides the command line interface or CLI and is how you most likely gonna interact with the Linux system. Again, in the same way that Cisco have a command line interface using a Cisco shell or that event such as arista have a Linux shell or bash shell as well as a Cisco-ish type shell. Linux has a shell which gives you your shell line. The most common shell is bash or the Born Again Shell, which is a pun on the original Linux shell, the born shell. So in most cases, you're gonna be interacting with the bash shell these days and that's the shell that I'm gonna concentrate on in this course. Now in the same way that the Cisco CLI or other CLI's have thousands of commands that you can learn, you can do many things in the bash shell and we're not gonna try and cover all of that in this course. I wanna simply get you comfortable using the bash shell and interacting with Linux. Have a look online for various books, event cover the bash shell in a lot of detail…
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