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This document provides a brief description of the Linux command line. It is not a complete guide to the command line, but rather an introduction to complement <phrase>Kubuntu</phrase>'s graphical tools.
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"Under Linux there are GUIs (graphical user interfaces), where you can point and click and drag, and hopefully get work done without first reading lots of documentation. The traditional Unix environment is a CLI (command line interface), where you type commands to tell the computer what to do. That is faster and more powerful, but requires finding out what the commands are." -- from <placeholder-1/>
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This guide describes some basic GNU/Linux shell commands. It is not intended to be a complete guide to the command line, just an introduction to complement <phrase>Kubuntu</phrase>'s graphical tools.
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All command names, file names or paths to directories will be shown using a <command>monospace font</command>.
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<emphasis role="strong">Command Line Linux is case sensitive.</emphasis> User, user, and USER are each different and distinct in Linux.
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The <command>pwd</command> command displays the directory where the user is currently located (<acronym>pwd</acronym> stands for <quote>print working directory</quote>). For example, typing <screen>pwd</screen> while in the <filename class="directory">Desktop</filename> will show <computeroutput>/home/[username]/Desktop</computeroutput>. <placeholder-1/>
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The <command>cd</command> command changes directories (<acronym>cd</acronym> stands for <quote>change directory</quote>). When a terminal window is opened, it will be located in the user's home directory. Moving around the file system requires the use of <command>cd</command>.
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The <command>ls</command> command outputs a list of the files in the current directory (<acronym>ls</acronym> is short for <quote>list</quote>). For example, typing <screen>ls ~</screen> will display the files that are in the current user's home directory.
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The <command>touch</command> command is used either to change a file's access and modification timestamps or to create a new empty file. For example, <screen>touch foo</screen> will create a new empty file named <filename>foo</filename>. If <filename>foo</filename> is already a file, then using <command>touch</command> will update the timestamps on the file which will show the last time a file was <emphasis>touched</emphasis>.
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The <command>mkdir</command> command is used to create a new directory (<acronym>mkdir</acronym> stands for <quote>make directory</quote>). To create a new directory named <filename class="directory">foobar</filename>, type: <screen>mkdir foobar</screen>
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