Sunday, December 02, 2007
An Introduction to the Linux Command Line
One persistent, though entirely unfounded myth about Linux is that you need to use the command line to do ... well, just about everything. That’s just not true. Window managers—like KDE, GNOME, or xfce—give you a fully-graphical way of carrying out any number of tasks.
That said, even a cursory knowledge of the command line can make your life in Linux much easier. Sometimes, it’s just faster and easier to jump out to the command line, perform a task, and then return to the warm coziness of your window manager. Like when? Say, for example, you want to archive a bunch of files in a directory. Using the command line utility zip is often quicker than using a graphical archiving tool.
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