Useful commands for Linux beginners can help you get comfortable on the command line.

There are a lot of ways on Linux to make repeating commands easier than retyping them, and here's a nice collection of them. Life on the command line on Linux is clearly something most of us enjoy ...

1. mkdir The mkdir is exactly what it looks like -- make a directory. When you need to create a new directory (aka "folder"), this is the command you use.