Howtoforge posted a tutorial to show new Linux users how to handle Linux without having to browse through your desktop to edit files.

This tutorial is supposed to show new Linux users how to handle Linux without having to browse through your desktop to edit files. The core commands to do this are the same on every Linux distribution, however there is a large variety of commands that differ from distribution to distribution, as does the install command.

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