GNU/Linux Command Line session (1) :
In GNU/Linux everything is a file ... All configurations have files Using the text mode on GNU/Linux Operating System is pretty light .. The following figure shows how does the system work on your GNU/Linux Operating System ( User - Utility - !Shell - Kernel - Hardware )
We have to types of Termianls :
- Virtual Terminal ---> cause there is no other machine ( as in figure 2 ) " A mainframe with terminals "
- Terminal Emalaturs ( Pesudo ) ---> from the GUI ( Graphical User Interface )
tty , pts
try using the command tty from any GUI terminal ( pesudo ) , most probably you'll get something like : /dev/pts1 or /dev/pts now use the terminals through Alt+Ctrl+F1 .... F6
The general form of any command is like :
- command -option []
[] == argument
ls -k is your friend ..
What manual page do you want?
usage of man -k is something like :
so you can get use of it when you don't know the specific command to get it's manual directly like
man is the short name of manual
and you can use the command info as well which is a documention browsing system
- ___/
- |
- |___/bin
man is the short name of manual and you can use the command info as well which is a documention browsing system
- ___/
- |
- |___/bin
| ___/boot |
| ___/dev |
| ___/etc |
| ___/home |
| ___/initrd |
| ___/lib |
| ___/lost+found |
| ___/media |
| ___/mnt |
| ___/opt |
| ___/proc |
| ___/root |
| ___/sbin |
| ___/srv |
| ___/sys |
| ___/tmp |
| ___/usr |
| ___/var |
Old School ASCII Graphics ;)
the famous command cd cd .. " Up " cd - " Back"
Comments
So you get the session
Cool, looks like you're aiming at owning the command line session, well it's yours, go add your name. So long and thanks for all the fish.