From the course: Unix Essential Training
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Logging in and using the command prompt - Unix Tutorial
From the course: Unix Essential Training
Logging in and using the command prompt
- [Tutor] In this movie, we'll talk about what it means to log into Unix and begin to learn to use the command line. When I launch the terminal application it opened a window that has a prompt in it, waiting for me to type commands. Your window may look different than mine. It is configurable. I can go to the terminal preferences to change the way that mine looks. In the preferences, I can set the background, the text size, the color and more. Old Unix systems were usually green or yellow text on a black background. And I still prefer that. I think it's easier on the eyes and easier to read. The window has a prompt right here. That's that cursor waiting for me to give it some kind of input. The text of your prompt will be different than mine. It's configurable and different versions of Unix have different default settings. Yours may be showing your username, the current directory or the date and time or something else.…
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