Basic Linux commands

Open a terminal window. First thing we will do is create a directory where you will store 580 related files. For that, use the mkdir command as follows:

mkdir cs580

Note that Linux is case-sensitive.

To see what we have done use the command ls which shows the contents of a directory.

Now let's create a directory called week1 within that directory:

mkdir cs580/week1

Note that the path separator in Linux is "/" rather than "\" which is used in Windows.

Now let's go into that directory:

cd cs580/week1.

(cd is the change directory command)

We are now ready to start some coding!