Introduction To Basic Terminal Commands For Linux - Part 1

In this tutorial you will learn to use linux
terminal. You will learn to navigate on the
terminal, learn to create and remove file and
much more. Most of this commands also
works on Mac Os X and powershell on
windows.

What is terminal?
Basically you are reading this tutorial because
you are new to linux or want to learn using
terminal to navigate. Before you get started
you must have linux installed or running
virtually on your computer. I would
recommend downloading fedora or ubuntu (If
you have trouble installing ubuntu leave a
comment below and i will post a tutorial).
Commands to remember
This are some of commands you must
remember which will help you to use terminal
more easily.
ls - it will list all files and folder in your
current directory
ls -l it will give detailt listing of all files and
folders
ls -a it will list all files and folder in your
current directory including hidden files (files
and folders that begin with period)
pwd will print your working directory or
simply your current directory

Navigating in terminal
Here i may refer folder as directory so dont
get confused. This is the term we use in linux
for folders.
cd - cd stands for change directory. we use cd
follow by path address to navigate ro that
folder.
Eg: cd Desktop will make desktop as my
current directory.
cd / will make root as you current directory
cd ~ will make home as your current directory
Typing cd alone is same as cd ~ and it will
make home as your current directory
cd .. will make parent directory i.e directory
above your current directory
cd ../../ will take you two folder up

Creating files and folders
mkdir - we use mkdir follow by path or folder
name to create a directory
Eg mkdir car will create directory car in your
current directory
to create folder recursively i.e folder inside
folder inside folder we use -p flag
Eg mkdir -p vehicles/car/truck will create
directory vehicles in your current directory
which have car inside it and car has directory
truck in it.
touch - we use touch follow by file name to
create empty file.

Removing files and folders
rmdir - we use rmdir follow by path to to
remove any directory. This will not work if
folder you are trying to remove has
something in it.
rm -r to remove file recursively which can
not be removed by rmdir
rm - We use this command to remove files