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Navigating a shell

Being a terminal hacker mastermind can seem like an enormous feat, but fear not: it is more simple than you may expect.

The shell will probably have a prompt that looks like one of the following:

            username@hostname:)~
            
            hostname:~$

For simplicity's sake, $ will be used in this guide.

You really only need to pay attention to the working directory part of that.

~ indicates you are in your home directory. Only you can access this, unless you choose otherwise.

You're almost on the road to being a terminal master hacker. Now, you just need to get some output...

Type pwd now. You should probably see something like /home/yourname.

            $ pwd
/home/username
        

How about we make a directory? Lets do mkdir mydirectory

$ mkdir mydirectory

And now...

            $ ls
mydirectory
        

ls will show you all files and directories in your working directory.

Lets go into that directory.

$ cd mydirectory

Lets edit a file.

$ nano myfile

Use control + x; y to save and exit.

Lets see what you wrote

            $ cat myfile
Hello! I am using a terminal.
Wow so cool.
        