The Linux terminal can be used for many things. Launching applications, downloading software, and a lot more. However, one of the best uses of the terminal is for managing files. Linux has many commands that allows you to manipulate, and manage files right from the terminal. I am going to list all of these so that you may be able to manage files without anything other than the terminal.
  • Aiwendil@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Okay, in advance…sorry for mainly criticising, the content itself is basic but maybe useful for people coming from windows and new to linux.

    For example, if I wanted to switch to the Documents directory, I could type this.

    Cd Documents.

    Linux is case sensitive…and while this might be blog software used giving an example that won’t work is maybe not a good idea. Needs to be “cd Documents”

    Same later on with “Cp /original/pathto/filename /path/to/copy/to” and also “Mkdir “name of directory you want to make””

    cp paragraph messed up the headline ;)

    Different syntax…the rm example uses /path/to/file while the mkdir example uses “name of directory you want to make”, probably should stick to one way.

    And while I think short and very basic introductions to commands can be helpful links to full explanation/man pages for each discussed command might be a good idea or it gives the impression those commands are as limited as described there.