From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1
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Get help and version determination - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1
Get help and version determination
- [Instructor] I'm gonna open a Terminal and make the Terminal bigger by pressing Control plus on this Ubuntu VM, and I'm gonna use the command "uname" to see the version of operating system that I'm using. "uname" here shows me that we're using Linux, so both these operating systems are Linux. Now, when you use a command, such as "touch" which allows us to create a file, notice we're told to use hyphen hyphen, or "--help" to get information about the command, so I'll pipe that to "more" to show one line at a time, and notice here we get help about the command. We could do something similar with "uname" So, "--help," or "--help" shows me options with regards to the command. So when you use a command, don't forget that help's available. So, here's an example: "uname --help" shows me help with regards to the command. Don't forget that you can also use the "man" pages, which provide documentation about a command. This is your first step to getting information about a command. So, as an…
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