Tutorial: An Introduction to Linux CLI

Posted by Chris7mas on Apr 7, 2009 9:12 PM EDT
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A shell is a command interpreter which allows the user to interact with the computer. The way things work is simple: the user types in commands, the shell interprets them and performs the tasks it was asked to do, and finally it sends the result to the standard output (which is usually the screen). For example, the output of the ls command can be something like:

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