An Introduction to the Command-Line (on Unix-like systems)

by Oliver; 2014

4. The Definitive Guides to Unix, Bash, and the Coreutils

Before going any further, it's only fair to plug the authoritative guides which, unsurprisingly, can be found right on your command line:

$ man bash
$ info coreutils

(The $ at the beginning of the line represents the terminal's prompt.) These are good references, but overwhelming to serve as a starting point. There are also great resources online:

• The Linux Information Project
• GNU Bash Reference Manual
• The Linux Documentation Project
• SS64 | Command line reference
• Stack Overflow
• Wikipedia

although these guides, too, are exponentially more useful once you have a small foundation to build on.

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