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An Illustrated Shell Command Primer Featured Products

An Illustrated Shell Command Primer

By Brennen Bearnes

A fast, simple overview of basic shell commands, with pictures.

Introduction
Listing Files: ls
Changing Directories: cd
Looking Inside Files: cat, less, head, and tail
Attaining Superpowers: sudo
Creating Directories and Files: mkdir and touch
Editing Files: nano
Moving, Renaming, and Copying Files: mv and cp
Deleting Files and Directories: rm
Disk Space, Memory Use, and CPU Load: du, df, free, and w
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Difficulty: Beginner

Guide Type: Skill

Categories: Raspberry Pi
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