When you first open the terminal, the first command you may type could be:
ls
It will display the contents of the current directory.
If there is nothing in it, it will not display anything.
A current alias for this command, is:
ll
This is an alias for:
ls -l
The -l option, asks the
request to the ls command
to display more informations.
If there is nothing in the current directory, it will probably display:
. ..
with the ls -a option.
It is also possible to combine several
options: ls -al.
You can probably create a new directory
with the mkdir command:
mkdir dir_name
You can later remove this directory
with rmdir:
rmdir dir_name/
This operation will be operated, only if the directory is empty,
otherwise it will display:
directory not empty
When ls is invoked with
-a, the two characters .
and .. are there to stand for:
.: the current directory...: the parent directory.If you try to type:
cd .
You will just stay at the current place.
cd dir_name/
is a cmd which means: change-directory.
cd
If you type it with-no arguments
it will change you to the default
start - dir.
You can create a new file in the current dir w/ vim:
$ vim file.txt
:wq
type the :wq to exit.
It will leave w/ an empty
file.
Learn more vim w/: vim-tut.
versions of this file.