Putting It All Together

Comprehension Check¶

CLI Comprehension Check

Application¶

Q2: Describe your experience working through different tasks and commands in the previous section of the lab. How does working at the command line compare to other ways of navigating and interacting with a computer?

Q3: Type the ls -l (lower-case letter l, lower-case letter s, space, dash -, lower-case letter l) command in your shell and press Enter/Return. What can you decipher about the information that is displayed?

• HINT: Watch https://youtu.be/exQNuYxqFpA to help decode the information.

Q4: What command line expression would we use to create a new directory? What command line expression would we use to remove or delete a directory?

• HINT: Consult Mary Brent’s “Linux Command Cheat Sheet”

Additional Resources¶

If you want to further explore command line syntax:

• Software Carpentries, “The Unix Shell” lesson

• Mary Brent, “Linux Command Cheat Sheet”, Guru99 (28 May 2022)

• Ian Milligan and James Baker, “Introduction to the Bash Command Line,” The Programming Historian 3 (2014), Milligan & Baker (2014).

• Miriam Posner, “Getting Started With Unix” tutorial