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Learning Raspbian

You're reading from   Learning Raspbian Get up and running with Raspbian and make the most out of your Raspberry Pi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392192
Length 154 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. The Raspberry Pi and Raspbian 2. Getting Started with Raspbian FREE CHAPTER 3. Starting Raspbian 4. An Introduction to the Raspbian Desktop 5. Installing Software on Raspbian 6. The Console 7. Other Linux Distributions Based on Raspbian A. References Index

Launching the bash command interpreter


The bash command interpreter is made available to us in the Xfce environment through the LXTerminal application. Other terminal clients such as Yakuake can be installed using apt-get. If you have configured Raspbian to not start the Xfce desktop environment, bash will be automatically started after you log in.

You can launch LXTerminal by double-clicking on its icon on the desktop.

LXTerminal

You can launch and run as many instances of LXTerminal as you like, but don't forget that your Raspberry Pi doesn't have unlimited resources.

Note

If you are not using the Xfce desktop environment, bash will be launched when you log in.

The first thing that you will notice is that you have Command Prompt. By default, this Command Prompt will show you the current directory that you are working in, your Raspberry Pi's hostname (by default raspberrypi), and your username (by default this is pi).

As you move around the filesystem, you will see the name of the directory that...

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