In the following examples, "noob" will be used as the username. You will not ever type this in, it will just serve as reference for what you will actually see within terminal. For example, if your username is bob, your prompt will look like bob$
instead of noob$
.
Anywhere that you see something within carets, this is an argument placeholder and should be replaced when writing the actual command, for example mkdir <directory location or name>
would be written as something like mkdir example
.
ls
- List contents of current directory