Linux basic commands for beginners

Hello Readers,

Good to have you here my new friends. Before we begin, I'm excited to let you know that I recently got onboarded into the SCA Cloud School program with SheCodeAfrica in partnership with DeimosCloud, can you spot me here?.

The purpose of this post blog is to document this new journey and my learning path with you and I hope you stay with me.

Today I am going to be highlighting some of the basic commands that I have used as a beginner and in no particular order.

Lets' begin...

cd is used to navigate through your files and folders, also you can switch to specific folders by naming their path. For instance, cd Documents opens Document directory, and cd wanted opens a folder in the directory. See example below

cd - (cd with a hyphen) takes you to your last working directory

cd takes you to home folder

2. pwd allows you to see your current working directory carbon (3).png

3. ls allows you to view the files and folders in a directory, using this command with no option will only list out files and directories where you won't be able to view the contents carbon (4).png

Let us see what we get when we add options -

ls l shows directory, size, modified date and time, file and folder names, owner of the file and its permission
ls wanted lists out contents in the folder 'wanted'

4. mkdir is used to create a new directory. Let's create a new directory 'Hello' carbon (7).png

5. rmdir is used to delete a directory. In the example below, we created a directory 'Example' for the purpose of this demo
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6. history if you use Linux every day you will most likely run hundreds of commands for a certain period, the history command will show you all the commands you have recently used.

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7. chmod is used to change permissions and access mode of files and directories. In doing this, you use indicators to specify

who you are setting these permissions for, that is the users
what are you making? Either granting + or removing - the permissions
Which of the permissions are you granting read write or execute

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lookout for a detailed explanation of thechmod command in my next article

8. clear you can use this command to clear your terminal if it gets cluttered carbon (12).png

9. passwd if you want to change your user password carbon (13).png

10. sudo apt-get install <package name> Linux has an Advances Package Tool apt that makes it easy to install any software package directly from your terminal. For instance, you can install a VLC player... carbon (15).png

I have had a good experience with Linux so far and these basic commands have made the execution of tasks quite easy. You do not need to memorize the commands but I believe you get more familiar with them. I am also learning still about it and will be sharing it to help newbies like me.

That would be all for today!