The Terminal & Basic Commands

The terminal is where real Linux work happens. Learn the 10 commands you will use every day.

These six commands let you move around the filesystem confidently.

• pwd — where am I?
• ls -la — what is here?
• cd /path — go there
• mkdir — create a folder
• rm -rf — delete (dangerous, always double-check)
• man — read the docs

$ pwd
/home/user

$ ls -la
total 40
drwxr-xr-x  5 user group 4096 Jan 10 09:30 .
-rw-r--r--  1 user group  220 Jan  1 12:00 .bash_profile

Complete these three tasks in a terminal:

• Navigate to /etc and list all files
• Print /etc/os-release with cat
• Create a folder called falconverse-test in your home directory, then delete it