Most people I know, whom aren’t very used to linux yet, are afraid of the command line, they think it’s hard to learn and somehow useless but that is entirely false… The command line is very easy to learn, well at least the basics of it, but you should know that the shell is much more powerful than anything you have, or will, ever use…

In this small article I will try to show you all the basics on the command line, but first things first, let’s start with the directory layout:

/bin: Contains binaries that are needed for the boot process or for working in single mode, this folder should always be within the root partition!

/boot: Contains boot information, usually it’s where grub/lilo and kernel files ends up.

/dev:

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