Proficient Tool Use

Tools used during the course.

Graphical user interfaces are great for many things, but many system management tasks, especially if they involve automation, still require the command line.

• In Linux and macOS, this will be called the Terminal.
• In Windows, the built-in terminal is called the Command Terminal, or we can also use Power Shell.

The main things we need to know are:

• How to move around in the directories
• How to manage the environment variables
• How to run commands in the background
• How to see what is running
• How to kill processes we no longer want to be running