Meeting Minutes - sh - Posix Shell Session - Day 1 - July 06, 2020

July 08, 2020

Starting of the meet was a perfect storm. After much struggle we were able to bring back control to #ilugc irc channel and was able to start the presentation through presenter terminal in meet.ilugc.in. Here are the topics we covered in this session

importance of pwd command, current working directory
overview of unix filesystem, directories files
the / directory
home directory
ls command, -l option to ls command
everything in unix is a file philosophy
cd command
three types of commands, regular, built-in, aliases with example
importance of PATH variable
which command
stat command
where unix commands are saved and how shell uses PATH variable to find the full path to the executable file of a particular command
Q & A

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