Accessing your favorite media via the terminal
This article is touches upon learning how to leverage some of the real power of Linux via the terminal. As such, the terminal is required for this article/tutorial. You will find the terminal at Applications > Accessories > Terminal.
The terminal gives you full control of everything behind the scenes. The ability to manipulate processes (top), install and remove software (aptitude), change file permissions (chmod) and basically anything you can do with a GUI and more. You have to keep in mind, Linux has evolved into the desktop we know today from a server operating system.
Typically, unless you’re a power-user you don’t have much interest in the terminal unless you’re reading a tutorial that gives commands and you can just paste them to get things setup. I want to break you of that habbit and introduce some common ways to access media via the terminal. When you mix the following techniques with other commands such as ‘locate’ or ‘find’ as I’ve discussed on my blog, you won’t even think twice about opening a gui to search for and open your media.
Of course, the first step in making using the terminal more habitual is to provide quick access, so lets get on with the tutorial.
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