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Lesson 6 of 16 · about 14 min

Your command-line environment

Make the shell your own. Environment variables (like PATH) tell programs where things are, aliases make shortcuts, and dotfiles save your setup. Plus how to stop runaway programs and connect to other computers with ssh.

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  • Environment variable
  • PATH
  • Aliases and dotfiles

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