Difference between revisions of "Navigating the Command Line"
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Before you can use commands on the command line you need to know how to even get there and then it helps to know some keyboard shortcuts for basic editing. |
Before you can use commands on the command line you need to know how to even get there and then it helps to know some keyboard shortcuts for basic editing. |
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+ | When you are logged in the graphical environment on a Linux desktop you can open a <q>Terminal</q> window. There are many different versions of it: gnome-terminal, Konsole, rxvt, lxterminal, xterm, st, ... and many more. Basically all do the same: They present you with a terminal window where you text-characters can be displayed and you can enter text. |
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| + | There are tools where you can connect to remote computer via network and get a text console there. On a naked Linux system without a graphical environment you |
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Revision as of 12:14, 21 March 2020
Navigating the Command Line
Before you can use commands on the command line you need to know how to even get there and then it helps to know some keyboard shortcuts for basic editing.
When you are logged in the graphical environment on a Linux desktop you can open a Terminal
window. There are many different versions of it: gnome-terminal, Konsole, rxvt, lxterminal, xterm, st, ... and many more. Basically all do the same: They present you with a terminal window where you text-characters can be displayed and you can enter text.
There are tools where you can connect to remote computer via network and get a text console there. On a naked Linux system without a graphical environment you
