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System basics: The command line

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System basics: The command line

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- [Instructor] One of the primary ways of interacting with a Linux machine is through the command line. Instead of using a graphical interface with windows, links, and buttons, we can communicate with the system through typed commands and read information through text respsonses that the system gives us. This text interface is called the command line and we use that mode of communication through software called the shell. A shell provides a place where we can type commands and depending on the shell, it can have other helpful features aside from just accepting commands. The commands we use are generally in the pattern command, options, arguments. The command portion is the name of a program or a tool that we want to use in order to accomplish something. If we wanted to send a network message to a computer to see if it was responding, we'd use ping. To see what files and folders there are in a certain path, we'd use ls. And to edit text, we might use nano or vim. Some commands work…

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