Check Understanding of Basic Pi Terminal Commands

[carzhero2014]

Hi Guys,
I haven't gotten my Pi yet because I lost it and I would like your help in checking if I am correct with what the functions do and explain the 3 that I am unsure about.

pwd shows you the current directory (print working directory).

ls will list the contents of the directory.

cd is used to change the directory. For example, cd edward with switch you to a child directory called “Edward” while cd.. returns focus to the parent directory.

mkdir newdir will create a new directory, where “newdir” is the directory label. You can also create a succession of new directories with mkdir -p /home/edward/newdir1/newdir2, where both newdir1 and newdir2 are created, but this will only work with the -p


These 3 I am not sure what they are. It would be appreciated if someone explains what they do.

touch mytext.txt

nano mytext.txt

rm mytext.txt

[jamesh]

Smells like spam to me, or someone on a homework assignment.

But just in case.

touch updates the timestamp on a file to the current time
nano is an editor
rm remove a file

All these could easily be found using a search engine....

[B.Goode]

cd is used to change the directory. For example, cd edward with switch you to a child directory called “Edward”

Wrong!

[jojopi]

while cd.. returns focus to the parent directory.

Also wrong.

man command will show the manual for command, so you do not have to ask the internet every time.

[pidd]

while cd.. returns focus to the parent directory.

Also wrong.

man command will show the manual for command, so you do not have to ask the internet every time.

Not sure which way you meant it but neither "man command" nor "man cd" works for me?

"cd.." needed a space "cd .."

[jowage]

while cd.. returns focus to the parent directory.

Also wrong.

man command will show the manual for command, so you do not have to ask the internet every time.

Not sure which way you meant it but neither "man command" nor "man cd" works for me?

"cd.." needed a space "cd .."

"help cd"

and cd edward will not go to directory "Edward" because file paths and names are case sensitive

[B.Goode]

while cd.. returns focus to the parent directory.

Also wrong.

man command will show the manual for command, so you do not have to ask the internet every time.

Not sure which way you meant it but neither "man command" nor "man cd" works for me?

"cd.." needed a space "cd .."

The "Don't shoot the Messenger" reply -

cd is something that is built in to the shell (command line processor) that you are using. So you would need man bash, and then search for cd, which would give you this -

cd [-L|[-P [-e]] [-@]] [dir]
Change the current directory to dir.

[bensimmo]

If the plate comes back or not at least a search will.pick it up and I may as well add.

If you're starting out, have a look at this.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issue ... ash_v1.pdf

[CaptainMidnight]

I'd also highly recommend some of the free to download raspberry pi books (you can also buy print versions at low cost).

Here's the one about the command line.

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/books/com ... nd-edition