Chapter18.Becoming Familiar with Shell Environments

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 log in to and use virtual consoles

• How to reuse and edit commands that you have already entered

• How to use man and info pages to get command-line help

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 be well prepared to tackle the coming chapters on the Linux command line with style and grace.