Command Line

Question 1

What is CLI?

Answer 1

Command Line Interface: processes commands to a computer program in the form of lines of text. The program which handles the interface is called a command-line interpreter or command-line processor.

Question 2

What is GUI?

Answer 2

Graphical user Interface: is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

Question 3

man

Answer 3

displays the user manual of any command that we can run on the terminal.

Question 4

cat

Answer 4

reads data from the file and gives their content as output.
EX: $cat filename
$ cat file1 file2

Question 5

ls

Answer 5

displays a list of files inside the active folder

Question 6

pwd

Answer 6

print working directory and will show you the name of your current working directory

Question 7

mkdir

Answer 7

make directory and allows for the creation of new directories

Question 8

mv

Answer 8

move files or directories to somewhere else or also can be used to rename a file

Question 9

rm

Answer 9

remove files

Question 10

cp

Answer 10

copy files or directories