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    Linux Shell or "Terminal"

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    Linux is an open-source operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds. It is widely used for servers, powering about 90% of internet servers due to its speed, security and free cost compared to Windows servers. Popular Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Mint, Debian, and Fedora. The Linux shell provides a command line interface to interact with the operating system and basic commands like pwd, ls, and cd allow users to navigate directories and view file listings.

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    Linux is an open-source operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds. It is widely used for servers, powering about 90% of internet servers due to its speed, security and free cost compared to Windows servers. Popular Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Mint, Debian, and Fedora. The Linux shell provides a command line interface to interact with the operating system and basic commands like pwd, ls, and cd allow users to navigate directories and view file listings.

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    Linux is an open-source operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds. It is widely used for servers, powering about 90% of internet servers due to its speed, security and free cost compared to Windows servers. Popular Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Mint, Debian, and Fedora. The Linux shell provides a command line interface to interact with the operating system and basic commands like pwd, ls, and cd allow users to navigate directories and view file listings.

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    Linux is an open-source operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds. It is widely used for servers, powering about 90% of internet servers due to its speed, security and free cost compared to Windows servers. Popular Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Mint, Debian, and Fedora. The Linux shell provides a command line interface to interact with the operating system and basic commands like pwd, ls, and cd allow users to navigate directories and view file listings.

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    Linux is an operating system's kernel.

    You might have heard of


    UNIX. Well, Linux is a UNIX clone. But it was actually created by
    Linus Torvalds from Scratch. Linux is free and open-source, that
    means that you can simply change anything in Linux and redistribute
    it in your own name! There are several Linux Distributions,
    commonly called “distros”.

     Ubuntu Linux
     Red Hat Enterprise Linux
     Linux Mint
     Debian
     Fedora
    Linux is Mainly used in servers. About 90% of the internet is powered
    by Linux servers. This is because Linux is fast, secure, and free! The
    main problem of using Windows servers are their cost. This is solved
    by using Linux servers. The OS that runs in about 80% of the
    smartphones in the world, Android, is also made from the Linux
    kernel. Most of the viruses in the world run on Windows, but not on
    Linux!

    Linux Shell or “Terminal”

    So, basically, a shell is a program that receives commands from the


    user and gives it to the OS to process, and it shows the output. Linux's
    shell is its main part. Its distros come in GUI (graphical user
    interface), but basically, Linux has a CLI (command line interface). In
    this tutorial, we are going to cover the basic commands that we use in
    the shell of Linux.
    To open the terminal, press Ctrl+Alt+T in Ubuntu, or press Alt+F2,
    type in gnome-terminal, and press enter. In Raspberry Pi, type in
    lxterminal. There is also a GUI way of taking it, but this is better!

    Linux Commands

    Basic Commands

    1. pwd — When you first open the terminal, you are in the home
    directory of your user. To know which directory you are in, you can
    use the “pwd” command. It gives us the absolute path, which means
    the path that starts from the root. The root is the base of the Linux file
    system. It is denoted by a forward slash( / ). The user directory is
    usually something like "/home/username".

    2. ls — Use the "ls" command to know what files are in the directory


    you are in. You can see all the hidden files by using the command “ls
    -a”.
    3. cd — Use the "cd" command to go to a directory. For example, if
    you are in the home folder, and you want to go to the downloads
    folder, then you can type in “cd Downloads”. Remember, this
    command is case sensitive, and you have to type in the name of the
    folder exactly as it is. But there is a problem with these commands.
    Imagine you have a folder named “Raspberry Pi”. In this case, when
    you type in “cd Raspberry Pi”, the shell will take the second
    argument of the command as a different one, so you will get an error
    saying that the directory does not exist. Here, you can use a backward
    slash. That is, you can use “cd Raspberry\ Pi” in this case. Spaces
    are denoted like this: If you just type “cd” and press enter, it takes
    you to the home directory. To go back from a folder to the folder
    before that, you can type “cd ..” . The two dots represent back.

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