This exercise is designed to get you familiar with the Ubuntu command-line editing features. It also introduces you to the concept of command-line history.
Follow these steps
- Type the words "We all love Ubuntu" (without the quotation marks) but do not press Enter.
- Press the left arrow key to move the cursor to the letter "a" in the word "all".
- Press Alt+D to delete the word "all".
- Re-type the word "all" at the present cursor position.
- Press Ctrl+A to move the cursor to the beginning of the command line.
- Press the right arrow key to move the cursor to the letter "l" in "love".
- Press Ctrl+K to delete the line from the current cursor position.
- Press Ctrl+A and then press Ctrl+K to delete the entire line.
- Type "echo $SHELL" and press Enter.
- Type "date" and press Enter.
- Type "cal" and press Enter.
- Press the up arrow three times. You should see "echo $SHELL" on the current command line. Press the down arrow once. The current line will show "date". Now press Enter.
- Type "clear" and press Enter.
Last edited by happygeek; Dec 18th, 2006 at 5:09 pm. Reason: Formatting
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