The Linux command line for beginners — by Canonical (Ubuntu tutorials)

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A gentle introduction to the terminal: opening it, moving around the file system, creating and deleting files, pipes, man pages and safe use of sudo. The page says it has been replaced by a newer version and targets Ubuntu 18.04.

Quick steps

Open a terminal and use pwd, cd and ls
Create and manage files with mkdir, cp, mv and rm
Chain commands with pipes
Use sudo for single privileged commands

Paraphrased from the source. Menus can differ by version, so check the original for full details.

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Source: The Linux command line for beginners by Canonical (Ubuntu tutorials). Licence: Link only (©).

Source reviewed: 2026-11-02
Link checked: 2026-11-02
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