Friday 9 September 2011

The Terminal

Ok to learn Unix/Linux you should have access to something called the terminal which is like a note pad or like a command prompt in windows.... command prompt seems to be more appropriate....


In UBUNTU the Terminal is on accessories...
 

When you open the terminal you see something like this...


It will start from the home directory. Home directory is the default directory in which you are in I mean it is the directory from which Linux allows you to use. A directory is a collection of sub-directories and files. Technically in Linux a directory is also a file of type directory will deal with this later.

Now coming back to the terminal. Terminal is like a gate which allows you to interact with the hart of the OS the kernel. The kernel interacts with the hardware and the hardware, the terminal interacts with the kernel and you interact with the terminal.

Now this is the terminal. You can start interacting with it soon...



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