01. Learning the Shell

Question 1

What is the Shell?

Answer 1

A program that takes keyboard commands and passes them to the operating system for execution.

Question 2

What Shell does most distros include

Answer 2

Most provide bash (Borne Again Shell). It is a replacement for sh, the original UNIX shell

Question 3

When using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) what do we need to interact with the shell

Answer 3

Terminal emulator such as KDE konsole or GNOME gnome-terminal

Question 4

What is a shell prompt?

Answer 4

[username@hostname] working directory and either a $ or #. The # represents you are working as a superuser

Question 5

command history navigation

Answer 5

use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through your command history

Question 6

what keyboard short cuts do not work in the shell?

Answer 6

Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v

Question 7

If you would like to enter the console what keystroke can you use?

Answer 7

Ctrl-Atl-F1 throught Ctrl-Alt-F6 to toggle between console press Ctrl-Alt- and the corresponding function key.

Question 8

How do you return to the GUI?

Answer 8

Alt-F7