Chapter 2: Command-line essentials
Log in to a Linux system, run commands from the Bash shell, and save time with completion, history and line editing.
What you will learn
- Explain what Linux, a distribution and the shell are, read the shell prompt, and log in to another machine with SSH.
- Run commands with options and arguments, and read files with cat, less, head, tail and wc.
- Save keystrokes with Tab completion, the command history and the line-editing shortcuts.