sang-nguy0920 / holberton-system_engineering-devops

Project: Shell

holberton-system_engineering-devops

Learning Objectives What is the Shell

What is the shell
What is the difference between a terminal and a shell
What is the shell prompt
How to use the history (the basics)

Navigation

What do the commands or built-ins cd, pwd, ls do
How to navigate the filesystem
What are the . and .. directories
What is the working directory, how to print it and how to change it
What is the root directory
What is the home directory, and how to go there
What is the difference between the root directory and the home directory of the user root
What are the characteristics of hidden files and how to list them
What does the command cd - do

Looking Around

What do the commands ls, less, file do
How do you use options and arguments with commands
Understand the ls long format and how to display it
A Guided Tour
What does the ln command do
What do you find in the most common/important directories
What is a symbolic link
What is a hard link
What is the difference between a hard link and a symbolic link

Manipulating Files

What do the commands cp, mv, rm, mkdir do
What are wildcards and how do they work
How to use wildcards

Working with Commands

What do type, which, help, man commands do
What are the different kinds of commands
What is an alias
When do you use the command help instead of man