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Managing Files and Directories

If you’re a Linux newbie – and there are many – you may feel a little disoriented when you want to

accomplish your ﬁrst tasks.

Relax. If you’ve had any experience with other operating systems, learning Linux is a bit like learning

to drive in a new country: The ideas are the same, but some of the particulars are a bit different.

We’ll go over several of those “rules of the road” in this chapter.

But there’s one component of your new operating system you just can’t do without: the shell.We’ve

made numerous references to the shell – as in “shell prompt,” or “bash.”

Now, it’s time to learn a little more about this indispensable tool. But ﬁrst, a little history. . .

17.1 Shell Collecting

In the olden days (we’re talking ’60s here), when AT&T’s Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson were

designing UNIX, they wanted to create a way that humans could interact with their new system.

Operating systems at the time did come with “command interpreters,” which could take commands

from the user and interpret them for the computer to understand.

But Ritchie and Thompson wanted something more, something which could offer better features

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