Understanding Default Terminal Commands & Path

# Understanding Default Terminal Commands

This is very small topic to just introduce some specific symbols before introducing commands.
It will help you for better understanding. 

For demonstration, i am using " Cygwin64 Terminal " software which helps you to run Linux commands in Windows P.C 

you can also use Linux Terminal(any distribution).

shanti1 @ shanti2 : ~ $

shanti1 ® Username

shanti2 ® Computer Name – used to identify the computer over the network.

@ (at the rate) ®  Simply means user(shanti1) is working on a computer named (shanti2) over the network.

: ( colon )® Simple Separator

~ (tilde sign) ®  Shows that user working in home directory – if you change the directory, this sign will vanish.

$ (doller) ® Suggests you are working as a regular user in Linux.

Note - # (pound ) sign for root or master user displayed instead of $ (dollar sign).

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# Path & its type


Path:-  A path, the general form of the name of a file or directory, specifies a unique location in a file system. A path points to a file system location by following the directory tree hierarchy expressed in a string of characters in which path components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory.  (Source - Wikipedia )

Eg. – For download folder

Windows  C:\documents\user\download

Linux - /home /user /downloads

Note – In Windows, backward slash (\) is used, but in Linux, forward slash (/) is used.

There are two kinds of path -

1- Absolute Path -- An absolute or full path points to the same location in a file system, regardless of the current working directory. To do that, it must include the root directory.

2- Relative Path -- A relative path starts from some given working directory, avoiding the need to provide the full absolute path.