Hello and welcome to lesson 5.
In this lesson you will learn about the bare shell, the command interpreter on Linux.
This lesson is about the different features that help make working on the command line
easier.
You will learn how to work with redirection and piping, as well as history.
Next I will show you some keyboard shortcuts that will make working with the shell easier.
Then you will learn about shell expansion and how to escape special characters.
You will also learn how to use variables and alias, and in the end I will show you how
to tune the bash environment using its different startup files.
At the end of this lesson you will find the lab as well as the lab solution.