Goals: Introduction to using a Terminal

• What does a prompt look like?

• General syntax of shell command.

• Commands/options are case sensitive.

• Getting Help:

  • Man pages (man)

  • Options: <command> --help

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1. Is there a difference between running ls versus ls -al?

2. How can you find out what the –al options do?

3. What does the pwd command do?

4. From the command line, what happens if you press the up/down arrow keys?

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1: Is there a difference between running ls versus ls -al?

[arcc-t05@blog1 ~]$ ls
Desktop  Documents  Downloads
[arcc-t05@blog1 ~]$ ls -al
total 76
drwxr-x---   8 arcc-t05 arcc-t05  4096 Oct  3 13:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 925 root     root     32768 Sep 27 16:21 ..
-rw-------   1 arcc-t05 arcc-t05   212 Sep 12 15:44 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--   1 arcc-t05 arcc-t05    18 Aug 10 17:00 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--   1 arcc-t05 arcc-t05   141 Aug 10 17:00 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--   1 arcc-t05 arcc-t05   376 Aug 10 17:00 .bashrc
drwx------   3 arcc-t05 arcc-t05  4096 Sep 12 11:36 .config
drwxr-xr-x   2 arcc-t05 arcc-t05  4096 Aug 10 17:00 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x   2 arcc-t05 arcc-t05  4096 Aug 10 17:00 Documents

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2: How can you find out what the –al options do?

• Use man ls or ls --help

• -a, --all do not ignore entries starting with .

• -l use a long listing format

• Options are also case sensitive:

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  [arcc-t05@blog1 ~]$ ls -A .bash_history  .bash_profile  .config  Documents  .emacs     .kshrc    .mozilla  .zshrc .bash_logout   .bashrc        Desktop  Downloads  .esd_auth  .lesshst  .sshWhat does the pwd command do?

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3: What does the pwd command do?

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