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Oliver Sewell
Oliver Sewell
16,108 Points

What do i need to be able to do with the console , their is alot of stuff to remember!

Hi , what sort of things do i need to know how to do with the console and how much of a good understanding do i need? , is the console used alot in jobs?

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Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

If you're a developer, yes you will find yourself in the console a lot. There are no commands you have to remember, you can use documentation of find the commands, there are a few you should remember, and likely will because of how often you use them.

Commands that allow you to move through the file system, like cd for change directory, rm for remove, and mkdir for make directory.

Lots of packages you may use will be installed via the command line, or CLI (command line interface). Almost always the package will have documentation that tells you exactly what to type, so it's not hard. There is always stack overflow to help you find the command you're looking for. I don't remember many commands myself, and especially not the flags or options that can be passed, but I do alright, because I can usually find my answer in relatively short time.

Hope that helps.

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points

Learn this course - https://teamtreehouse.com/library/console-foundations. I guess, here is enough information for understanding how to work in console.

The most important things you need to know is how to perform basic file management (cp, find, mkdir, mv, ls, rm, rmdir, touch, tar, cpio, dd, file), search text files using regular expressions (grep, egrep, fgrep, sed), manage file permissions and ownership (chmod, umask, chown, chgrp), perform basic file editing operations using vi, install software (), find system files and place files in the correct location (find, locate, updatedb, whereis, which, type).

This is my opinion, but maybe you need less...

Oliver Sewell
Oliver Sewell
16,108 Points

Thankyou , how often would u use the console is it a everyday thing?

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points

Last 3 month I am using console almost every day. Today I have finished official LPI courses. And next month I plan to pass LPIC-1 certification.

If you are on Linux, it's much convenient to perform some tasks using console.