Mastering navigation: moving around with ease
The command line, also known as the terminal or shell, is a text-based interface. Instead of clicking buttons and icons, you type commands to interact with your operating system. Mastering navigation is the first step to becoming comfortable with it.
Important note
Using the command line can be very powerful and is the ideal way to follow carefully outlined instructions.
As you are learning your way around and using resources on the internet to help get the most out of your Ubuntu system, be cautious about copying and pasting commands found online. Read them carefully and ensure you understand what they are doing before you run them yourself. A malicious person on an online forum could hide a command in those instructions that could do anything, even delete everything on your computer.
Opening the terminal
You can open the terminal like any other graphical application by clicking the Terminal icon. You...
