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🐧 Linux Commands - A Complete Handbook for beginners 💻

Kaiwalya Koparkar on May 24, 2021

Hello folks, You might be working on GUI based interfaces to do your daily tasks. But do you know that you can do the same and some advance tasks j...

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CyberJack • May 24 '21 • Edited

cd or cd ~ does not go to the root directory, but to the users home directory. They may be the same, but this is highly unlikely.

In addition,cd - goes back the the previous directory. So, when in a project, type cd to go the your home directory, and cd - to go back to the project directory.

peter279k • May 25 '21

Correct. Thanks for your detailed explanation so that I don't need to do that :).

Kaiwalya Koparkar • May 25 '21

Thanks, I am learning too. Thanks for the detailed explaination. I will edit the blog soon! :)

peter279k • May 25 '21 • Edited

This rmdir directory_name ==> This will delete the directory (Cannot be undone) explanation should change into: rmdir directory_name ==> This will delete the directory (Cannot be undone if the directory is not empty.).

And it will be better than previous explanation.

The curl command is not installed on Linux distribution by default. It should use the package install command (such as apt-get, yum and dnf commands) to install that before using the curl www.example_website.com command.

Kaiwalya Koparkar • May 25 '21

Thanks for that I would rephrase that soon! Thanks for the comment, I appreciate that

anscarlett • May 24 '21

I think you need to rename your article

myleftshoe • May 24 '21

Yes, this is every possible linux command in one handbook! Not complete and not a handbook. Maybe the title should be "Some basic, useful linux commands"