Fear is a painful emotion by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread; like our fear of ghosts and zombies as a child, and our fear of failure and death as an adult. I’m here to help Linux newbies defeat their fear, but not the kind of fear that I was talking about. Instead, I’m here to assist those who are suffering from CLI-phobia, or the “fear of Command Line Interface”. I will list some indispensable commands and keyboard shortcuts with their corresponding functions to guide the fearful in their journey to conquer the horror of using the Linux terminal.

Essential Commands:
Commands - Functions
Directory navigation
Pwd - "Print working directory" - show what dir you're in.
ls - List the contents of a dir.
ls –l - List the contents of a dir and show additional info of the files.
ls –a - List all files, including hidden files.

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