30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 18

From the beginning of the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux series I have had readers suggest solutions for various issues that involve the command line. In general, I prefer to work with the graphical interface, but it is worthwhile to be familiar with the command line interface so today I decided to poke around on it.

Before I started using Windows, I used DOS, and I was fairly adept at navigating and manipulating DOS from the command prompt. I have used Windows since Windows 3.0–when it was still a separate graphical user interface application that ran on top of DOS. Since Windows 95, though, DOS has been integrated with Windows as a single unit, and the command prompt has been relegated to a sort of legacy role that only IT admins ever really master.