[NTLUG:Discuss] Really Basic

[Robert Citek]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Allen Meyers <chef11994 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I grew tired of asking questions so I decided on an online organized linux course. Who am I kidding I have more questions now then I did before.

Does the class have an on-line discussion forum for you to ask
questions of your instructor and classmates?  You may not be the only
person in that situation.  The instructor should be made aware.

> We are on the linux shell and they are giving comman line codes to put into the terminal to familiarize ones self with command line.
> Example cd / nothing happens

Something should have happened.

> So got innovative sudo cd / and asked for password hey felt like I was getting somewhere no such command

Interesting.  Who set up your Linux environment?

> So what is it about terminal and command line I do not know. The enter key is the trigger is it not.

Trigger?  I'm not sure I follow.

> Please advise and thanks

Personally, I would start with something that give guaranteed instant feedback:

$ echo "Hello, world"
Hello, world

What distro are you using?  What shell?

Regards,
- Robert