Hello friends, in this video tutorial we will learn some basic commands in CLI (command line interface) or Terminal, on the Ubuntu Linux operating system. If you are wondering why we use the command line or the Terminal instead of the graphical interface, the answer is as simple as possible. There are some more advanced things that cannot be done at the moment from a graphical interface and another advantage in using the terminal is that we do not use a graphical interface and due to this, what we want to do will happen much faster. still taking care to display a graphical interface. Many times using the terminal can help us diagnose problems that will occur when launching applications or system modules. Unfortunately, Linux is not very good in terms of "pop-up warning" for applications. What I mean is that you will often come across applications that do not offer any pop-ups when something is missing for the application to run properly, or when it conflicts with some modules, system services or other applications. . This way you will not be able to determine the cause of the problem unless you run the respective application from the terminal and watching the output. Such cases are very rare but it is good to be prepared to use the terminal if we need to use it.
Why most explanations and tutorials found on the internet using Terminal related instruction?
For the simple reason that a simple command like: "cp test.txt Public" given in the Terminal saves its long explanation in the graphical interface. Explaining the above command in words, it should have sounded like this:
"Right click on the file choose from the context menu Copy then go to the top panel, click on Places and then on the Public folder, then in the Public folder right click and choose from the context menu the Paste function"
Now you draw the conclusion about how much time we spend to explain a simple copy / paste command of a file using the graphical interface and how much time we spend guiding someone to write: "Open the Terminal and give: cp test.txt Public"
This is why you will often meet the guidelines for Terminal so Ubuntu.ro community forum and the websites or blogs that address this kind of articles and tutorials. Using terminal do things more quickly, stay in one window, not running like crazy with the mouse on the Desktop, once command executed will happen very quickly due to lack of graphical interface, shield very long time, we can better diagnose any problems have more power over what we want to do, basically terminal has unlimited power to use it if you know! Towards the end I invite you to follow along this video tutorial and learn the first part of the series dedicated terminal basic commands in its use.
Remember, if you have suggestions, complaints or additions do not hesitate to write in the comments box, de-also if you met the comments box a user has a problem and you can help him, do not hesitate to do it, the only way we can do this place better, see the comments box!
Enjoy !
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very loud ... honestly I didn't get to watch it but I promise I will ... you are brilliant ... I would like as many tutorials about ubuntu in particular ... if of course you can
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I look forward to the next tutorials ... gg ady
fff thank you brother hard and as many tutorials of linux is the best OS available
Congratulations very nice and helpful to those who want to imteleaga Linux OS.
Hello,
Sorry primarily because I don't think I should have posted this question here (but I don't know what tutorial). I went to someone who had linux installed and wanted to give up linux and install xp. the problem with the MBR is that it needs to be re-created. The fastest solution found was to take the hdd with linux and format it on another calc. with windows and then ... fixmbr / fixboot doesn't work because it boots after bootable CDs (eg: latest boot cd) but not after the windows cd. Can you help me with an answer? Thanks and congratulations for tutorials.
Very cool! Not wait to see and these tutoriale.Succes!
Very good tutorial much expect a terminal tutorila about me because for one year newer linux it's hard without these comenzi.Multumesc and I (hope) to be doing other tutorials of this kind for the beggining linux.Chiar to ami board than ubuntu.
Interestingly, I knew this already, I hope that the other parties are also more complicated.
Mixed. But I would also like a tutorial for windows on cmd commands, if possible?
Argentinian, man again do you want to confuse linux with windows? ... damn choose another theme on the desktop because many children will think that linux is the same as windows ... I'm not a great specialist but it's obvious that the term Linux also refers to the Linux kernel ... otherwise I increase the tutorials, you do a wonderful job but be more temperamental sometimes
I don't know what you meant by "Argentinian" ... but I don't see where these starts come from ... in the title of the tutorial it is clearly written that it's about Linux and in the tutorial I also said that it's about Linux, you have to be at least unfit (not to use another difficult term) not to understand or not to realize that it is Linux and not Windows. That's why I chose to use that theme, so that people can understand that Linux can be beautiful, that it can default to some boring and ugly themes, but it can be transformed into what you want. I'm absolutely free to use whatever theme I want, that means Linux, the freedom to use what you want, to do what you want. Not like in Windows, where you have to and you have to put I don't know how many patches you can install a poor theme. If you don't like the tutorials I made, I invite you not to watch them anymore. One theme does not influence the true identity of Linux and I take care in other ways to make people understand that Linux is not Windows, which is said in large print in the comments from the other Linux tutorials I have done before. Clarifications about "what Linux is all about" I gave in the tutorial about "3 methods of installing software on Linux", which you will find by typing up in the search box on the right on the black margin the title of the tutorial and giving enter. I also explained "what Linux is all about" in THIS article (click on the word THIS to get directly to the article) Enjoy the tutorial and don't worry about what I do, how I explain, if I clarify ... I know very well what I have to do, better than you anyway!