Beginner’s Guide to the Bash Terminal

This video is a crash course to help new users get started with BASH. Here is a list of the commands we’ll cover: BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE BASH TERMINAL NAVIGATION ls - list directory contents pwd - print name of current/working directory cd - change working directory pushd/popd - put working directory on a stack file - determine file type locate - find files by name updatedb - update database for locate which - locate a command history - display bash command history GETTING HELP whatis - display the on-line manual descriptions apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals WORKING WITH FILES mkdir - create a directory/make directories touch - change file timestamps/create empty files cp - copy files and directories mv - move (rename) files rm - remove files or directories rmdir - remove empty directories TEXT FILES cat - concatenate fi