02-04 Basic Commands

01

Terminal shows, User, System, anddirectory

02

man

man is the most useful, you can use

man man
                

to see info on the man pages, along with most all other commands

03

The Synopsis contains the options for the command

04

Scroll Down for Examples

05

Some commands like

cd
                

Do not have a man page

06

pwd gives us the current or present working directory

pwd

07

we can change directories

cd
                

../ goes back a directory, and you will need to use sudo to list the items within

sudo cd ../
    

type password when needed

use ls to list directory items

ls
                

08

Use cd to change back to home directory from wherever we are

cd
            

The ~ represents the ../../home directory