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How do you use commands in Linux?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Open your distribution's terminal emulator application, or hit Alt-F2 and type in the command. For help about a specific command, you can almost always follow the command with something like --help or -?.

For example, typing:

wget --help

would display help for wget.

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