Diving Into Bash

Introduction to Linux(Linux 4 n00bs)

Where am I?

At this point you should have your shell open and ready for input.

To find which directory you are in type the following command.

 pwd

This will output the directory that you are currently working in.

pwd stands for Print Working Directory.

Make a directory

 mkdir myNewDirectory

See contents of that Directory

 ls

The ls command will list the contents of a directory.

Change Directory

 cd myNewDirectory
 cd ..
 cd /
 cd /home/linux101
 ls -l

Notice that we've added more to the end of the ls command. This is a parameter. You can learn more parameters by prefacing your command with man. i.e. man ls will output the man page of ls

 cd /
 cd ~
 pwd
 ls -l

 chmod 777 myNewDirectory
 ls -l
 rmdir myNewDirectory

External Links

1. linux.com : Bash 101: Working at the CLI, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier