Summary

There are more Linux commands than you’ll ever be able to memorize. Most of us just memorize our favorite commands and variations of commands, and you’ll develop your own menu of these commands as you learn and expand your knowledge. In this chapter, we covered many of the foundational commands that are, for the most part, essential. Commands such as grep, cat, cd, ls, and others were explored this time around. The next chapter is essentially a continuation of this one, but I wanted to split the foundational concepts into two chapters rather than one enormous one.

In the next chapter, we’ll expand our foundational knowledge with a deeper look at file management, including editing files, input/output streams, and symbolic links, and we’ll even reveal the secret to life itself. Well, maybe not the latter, but the next chapter will still be great. See you there!