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Using your terminal

***REMEMBER that you are using Ubuntu for all of these tasks from now on.

  1. The lines of code are instructions/commands. the initial command can be modified by subsequent commands called arguments.
  2. The first argument is sometimes referred to as an option.
  3. Once executed, the results should appear under the command as separate entries.
  4. Open your terminal first, then you will be in what is called a shell.
  5. The most common shell is bash.