First steps in the shell

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First Steps in the shell

The notation 'Shell' refers to a Terminal Window, such as Konsole in KDE. Konsole is an extremely powerful utility as it is possible to input a wide range of commands. See the #Basic Commands section to see some of the first steps which you may take when using Konsole.

Basic Commands

ls

cp

mv

cat

Useful Files

/etc/fstab