Linux bash is going way beyond the scope of this book, but I will cover basic commands, which you may need in your daily work with SQL Server on Linux, such as creating folders, copying files, navigating through a tree of folders, deleting files and folders, listing content of folders and current position in the folder tree.
pwd
ls
cd
mkdir
cp
rm
rmdir
You can run the command line bash tool in many ways. Here, you can find two of the most common ways. Assuming that you have a KDE environment, click on K menu | System | Konsole
.
Alternately, press Alt+Space and start typing Konsole
. You will see at the top of the screen a menu with a list of tools, programs, files, and everything else that has the word Konsole
in the name. Just choose Konsole Terminal
as shown in the following screenshot and press Enter:
Figure 2-1. Choosing Konsole Terminal
option to run bash
After you run the Konsole Terminal
bash application, depending on the version of Linux, username, and host name, you...