// hands-on lab

Navigation drills

~12 min

Move, look, and find until it's automatic.

In the shell below:

pwd — confirm you start at home (~)
ls -la — read one line fully: permissions, owner, size, name
cd /var/log && ls — the incident room
cd - — bounce back home
find ~ -name "*.txt" — locate your text files
tree ~/projects — see structure at a glance

// checklist 0/4

pwd shows /home/student
ls -la read and understood
Visited /var/log and listed it
find located the *.txt files

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practice-shell — bash

Navigation drills — move, look, find, until it is muscle memory.

Instant practice shell (simulated) — everything for this lab works here. Need the real thing? Open the full Linux VM ↗