Getting Your Bearings

Learn about the command-line interface, pwd, and ls command.

The CLI

When we first open the CLI, we’re be presented with something that looks like this:

root@educative:/#

This is the prompt, and it’s the CLI’s way of saying it’s ready for us to type a command. This prompt is from the Ubuntu operating system.

In this case, the current working directory is represented by a tilde (~), which means our ...