Bash

Navigating the command line is a skill that can greatly enhance your efficiency as a programmer or system administrator. It allows direct communication with your operating system via specific commands. This guide will demonstrate command line basics. We'll cover essential commands and provide explanations for their use.

Command lines on different operating systems make use of different languages. Throughout the tech docs, we demonstrate things using bash. Bash is the language used on Linux operating systems, which powers most servers around the world.

Before we start learning the commands, let's take a look at getting bash up and running on your machine.