Everybody and welcome to part one of the Linux command line mini module.
So this particular video we're going to go over navigation just like we did in the windows counterpart.
Now the navigation for Linux command lines or pretty close to the windows one.
However there's a few key differences that you'll need to understand.
The first one is on a Windows machine.
If we need to these to opt right let's assume that Optus similar to what we'll do home.
So home is similar to what we did that.
Right.
So we're going to the users directory.
So the difference being is if we see on windows to the sky
that would work that would work that would work.
It's not case sensitive.
However on on Linux going here and going here is two different files or folders.
So with Linux everything is case sensitive in Windows it's not always case sensitive.
So for example you can out you can't have Windows machine you can have a folder that contains two files
called test got to 60 and have them be just uppercase and lowercase it would just it's all just treated
as one one single file name.
Now on Linux you can have one called home and you can have one called home or all caps it they it is
will it will be considered different for each one.
So just as a quick example here we'll we'll go over some of this all the commands in just a second.
So I just want to clear this up for us all.
So there's currently nothing.
So think of this as the desire command.
I'm just going to show you a quick quick thing of what I'm talking about here.
So if I create the file called test that takes time.
Right we have our test texting and on a Windows machine.
If we did
it would fail.
However on a Linux machine we could see that there's there they're different.
They're considered different files so we're going to go ahead and clear that out.
Now back to navigation I just want to get that out of the way.
So navigation things are relatively the same.
You still use CDE and you can go back a few directories.
However the difference being is on windows you would use the backslash and using the Forward arms are
you would use the forward on Linux and the back on Windows.
So this would not work and ends up throwing it weird.
So that slash on the on the Linux command line is telling it that it wants to go to a new line.
So then you could do that slash but appends itself so you can see that whatever you put on the previous
screen that dot dot and then it just moves to the new line.
So if I wanted to do.
Let's see that.
And then when dot dot slash it would then bring me back a directory which is what I did.
So that's really the biggest differences.
And then around help like I said you can do for C.D. as an example on windows you would normally do
some sort of slash but on Linux you're going to want to do slash slash or dash dash or sometimes dash
depends on the application.
But most of the time you're not going to see a forward slash on a Linux command line unless there's
a specific reason for it especially during arguments are just gonna be dashes.
So for this one if you wanted to do dash dash help that gives you your help while on windows you would
do that.
So it's just a quick video just to kind of tell you the differences between the two.
In most cases what you do is going to be relatively the same.
Just keep in mind those subtle differences especially the key difference between the files name or the
folders name and any anythings name in Linux if it is case sensitive.
So if you have a character in there a number it doesn't matter.
It will be treated differently while on a Windows machine it's treated as the same file regardless of
case.