Coursera-DE-C2-Using-Linux

An exploration of the Linux Shell

Goal: Learn the basics of Linux Shell

Let's practice some common shell commands

Part 1: Navigate the file system

1. Create a directory foo via mkdir foo command
2. cd into the foo directory

Part 2: Create a file with touch

1. Create a file using touch newfile.txt
2. Run the command again? What happens?

Part 3: Remove files and directories

1. Remove the directory foo via the command rm -rf foo
2. Make a file and then delete it: touch bar.xt then run rm bar.txt

Part 4: List files

1. list the contents of /usr/bin by running the command ls -l /usr/bin
2. What did you see?