|Ctrl+C| End a running program and return the prompt
|Ctrl+Z| Suspend a program
|ArrowUp and ArrowDown| Browse history. Go to the line that you want to repeat, edit details if necessary, and press Enter to save time.
|Tab| Command or filename completion; when multiple choices are possible, the system will either signal with an audio or visual bell, or, if too many choices are possible, ask you if you want to see them all.
|Tab Tab| Shows file or command completion possibilities.
|Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown| Browse terminal buffer (to see text that has "scrolled off" the screen).
|/bin| Common programs, shared by the system, the system administrator and the users.
|/boot| The startup files and the kernel, vmlinuz. In some recent distributions also grub data. Grub is the GRand Unified Boot loader and is an attempt to get rid of the many different boot-loaders we know today.
|/dev| Contains references to all the CPU peripheral hardware, which are represented as files with special properties.
|/etc| Most important system configuration files are in /etc
|/home| Home directories of the common users.
|/lib| Library files, includes files for all kinds of programs needed by the system and the users.
|/mnt| Standard mount point for external file systems, e.g. a CD-ROM or a digital camera.
|/opt| Typically contains extra and third party software.
|/proc| A virtual file system containing information about system resources.
|/root| The administrative user's home directory. Mind the difference between /, the root directory and /root, the home directory of the root user.
|/sbin| Programs for use by the system and the system administrator.
|/tmp| Temporary space for use by the system, cleaned upon reboot, so don't use this for saving any work!
|/usr| Programs, libraries, documentation etc. for all user-related programs.
|/var| Storage for all variable files and temporary files created by users, such as log files, the mail queue, the print spooler area, space for temporary storage of files downloaded from the Internet, or to keep an image of a CD before burning it.
The find tool, known from UNIX, is very powerful. This command not only allows you to search file names, it can also accept file size, date of last change and other file properties as criteria for a search.
The most common use is for finding file names:
NOTE: find <path> -name <searchstring>
This can be interpreted as "Look in all files and subdirectories contained in a given path, and print the names of the files containing the search string in their name" **(not in their content).**
[source,bash]
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find /etc -name "*.conf"
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=== grep
grep is used for filtering input lines and returning certain patterns to the output.