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2 You Are Here

Let's say you want to buy a pair of sneakers at a nearby shopping mall. You may not be familiar with the mall, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Why not? Because of the maps, which you can usually find near all the major entrances to the mall.

The same can be said for your Red Hat Linux system: Navigation's easy once you know where you're going.

  • Tip: Make sure you've logged into your user account! Remember that unless you like to live on the wild - and dangerous - side, using a root account for all your activities is toying with disaster. If you haven't created your user account yet, turn to Chapter 1 and do it now. Really... no kidding...

  • 2.1 Finding Yourself With pwd

    2.2 Getting From Here to There: cd

    2.3 Looking Around With ls

    2.4 A Larger Picture of the Filesystem

    2.5 ``Washing'' the Window

    2.6 Using cat

    2.7 Using Redirection

    2.8 Appending Standard Output

    2.9 Redirecting Standard Input

    2.10 Pipes

    2.11 Stringing Commands Together

    2.12 Ownership and Permissions

    2.13 Fun with Numbers in chmod


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