Type "pwd" (Print working directory) to see where you are.

Quote:Trey@Gibson ~
$ pwd
/home/Trey

As you can see it prints the directory you're currently in.
The directory path is
Obviously replace my name with the name of your user account.


Listing files.
Instead of using "dir" like you would in the windows command prompt we are going to use
(List)

and it will display the files in your current directory.
I have made a random file for the tutorial. ($ touch sinister.ly)

So now when you do the list command you will see that file.

Quote:Trey@Gibson ~
$ ls
sinister.ly

Deleting files.
So currently we have a file called "Sinister.ly" What if we want to remove the file?

We use the remove command.

So you would do the following.

And it will delete that file.

If you want to delete a folder you will need to use rm - rf (recursive force)

If there were spaces in the folder name you would add quotes, like so.


Reading files.

If you want to read a file you will use "cat"
For example we have a file called SL.txt
If we do

It will print the text inside of the file.

Quote:Trey@Gibson ~
$ cat SL.txt
Nefarious http://sinister.ly

Changing directories.

If you want to switch to another folder we will use "cd" (change directory?)

Quote:$ cd lol

Trey@Gibson ~/lol

If you do "ls" again you will see the files in that directory.

Quote:Trey@Gibson ~/lol
$ ls
It works!.txt

To go back simply do "cd"