This article is concerned with the creation, deletion, and manipulation of files. By the end of this section, the user should be able to identify all files within a directory, create new ones, remove others, display the contents of some, rename others, and more. ls: Listing The contents of a directory can be displayed using … Read more
The command that we are going to talk about is tasksel. This stands for “task select.” Now, Ubuntu is trying to become the premier provider of Linux distributions. They have really done a lot of work … Read more
In this post we learn to manage environment variables in the shell. These variables are often needed by applications. $ dollar sign Another important character interpreted by the shell is the dollar sign $. The shell will look for an environment variable named like the string following the dollar sign and replace it with the … Read more
In this post we learn how to recognise, create, remove, copy and move files using commands like file, touch, rm, cp, mv and rename. all files are case sensitive Files on Linux (or any Unix) are case sensitive. This means that FILE1 is different from file1, and /etc/hosts is different from /etc/Hosts (the latter one … Read more
This post will explain the use of man pages (also called manual pages) on your Unix or Linux computer. You will learn the man command together with related commands like whereis, whatis and mandb. Most Unix files and commands have pretty good man pages to explain their use. Man pages also come in handy when … Read more