Chapter 18. Becoming Familiar with Shell Environments
What You'll Learn in This Chapter:
How to switch between the desktop display and virtual consoles
How to reuse and edit commands that you have already entered
This chapter begins Part IV of this book, which focuses on using the Linux command line. To get a real feel for the command line, in this chapter, you learn about virtual consoles, man pages, and info pages. You also learn a little bit more about the Terminal application introduced in Chapter 6, “Working with Files in the Shell,” that lets you use the Linux command line in a window on your desktop.
By the time you've finished this chapter, you'll ...
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