Linux, terminal and Git

Stage 1 · Lesson 5 of 8

Getting help from the terminal

Set up your machine

Almost every command comes with its own instructions. man ls opens the for ls. Inside it, press / to search and q to quit.

ls --help prints a short summary instead. If you install the tldr client, tldr ls shows a few practical examples. Found a long command online?

The website explainshell.com breaks it into parts and explains each one. Learning to look things up is the skill that makes the rest of this roadmap possible.

Common traprunning commands from AI answers or forums you do not understand; look them up first, especially anything with sudo, rm or a into a shell.

A question to check yourself, an AI practice session and 1 cheat sheet entry come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it

Resources for this stage

Start with· follow one of these

Keep handy

  • Visual Studio Code

    The editor used through this roadmap, with official set-up guides for each operating system

Also worth your time

  • roadmap.sh: LinuxGo deeper

    A map of the whole Linux topic, to see how much there is beyond this stage

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