Welcome to the Debian Command Line Interface Portal

Like all GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems Debian has a powerful command line interface, or CLI. Far from a thing of the past, it offers efficient, robust and complete control for beginners and experts alike.

General articles

• The Command Line

• The Unix Way

• Definitions: terminal, terminal emulator

Quick guides

• ?An Introduction to the Shell

• How to survive on the Linux console

The shells

• Bash

• Dash

• Default and other available shells

• Shell Tricks

Common commands

• CommandsCLI

• ShellCommands ( CategoryRedundant: merge ShellToolTricks, PrincipalCommands and coreutils)

Configuration

• ShellConfiguration

• Shell Startup Magic (example)

Scripting

• ShellScript

• ?BashScripting

External links:

• Bash Definition

• http://manpages.debian.net

• Comparison_of_computer_shells

• http://www.spack.org/wiki/InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine - Tutorial

• https://gna.org/projects/mbfl - Marco's Bash Functions Library

• http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal - Terminal

• http://www.ssuet.edu.pk/~amkhan/Linuxbooks/Linux%20Shell%20Scripting%20Tutorial.pdf - Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial

• http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html - Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

• http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html - Bash Guide for Beginners

• http://linuxcommand.org/ - "...tired of changing your desktop themes. You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Now what?"

• http://web.archive.org - The history of unix shells

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