Unix Terminal Introduction

Checkout The Linux command line for beginners on ubuntu.com for a short and good-enough introduction.

If you're looking for something more in depth, please checkout UNIX / LINUX Tutorial on tutorialspoint.com.

If you find other resources that you liked more or resources for non-Unix terminals/command-line-interfaces, please let me know!

What you need to know

There's a lot of material to cover. Here are a few questions to check if you got the most important parts:

• What is the ~ directory/folder?
• How can you list what files are in your Desktop directory?
• How can you list all C++ files in your current directory?
• How do you compile a single-file, foo.cpp, C++ source code?
• How do you run a program, named a.out, and redirect the output to a file named lol.txt (as if you copy-pasted the output into lol.txt)?
• How do you run a program, named ilovedonuts, and redirect a file named lmao.txt as input (as if you typed the contents of lmao.txt yourself)?