Tag: command structure

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Heya,

did you notice the general command structure? To remind you, it looks like:

command -options arguments

Let’s take a look at the commands we learned so far, applying the abstract command structure over them:

• cd arguments
• pwd
• man arguments
• ls options

I hope this helped shed light on the underlying general command structure.

Talk soon!

Here is the video version, if you prefer it:

Before we begin learning the commands, let me tell you that commands generally look like this: (Shotts, 2019)⁠

command -options arguments

Keep this in mind as you progress through the following posts.

Thank you for reading!

References

Shotts, W. (2019). The Linux Command Line, Fifth Internet Edition. Retrieved from http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php. Page 38