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Termux - The android Terminal

Termux No hesitation, you can certainly call Termux “The Android terminal”. Owing to it’s simplicity and capabilities, Termux stand so close to the original Linux terminal. Who is it for and who should read this? This is beginner article which will introduce you to the fundamentals of using Linux terminal on android devices. To understand something here, you should barely understand English and nothing else is a pre-requisite. 🤓 Let us figure out the basics.   Android If you are using an android device, you know that android is the operating system that run the show on your mobile phone. Android is an operating system with its core based on Linux. In fact, android is based on a modified version of Linux optimized for mobile devices. Terminal Terminal is a command line interface which can be used to communicate with or control the Operating system. So, a linux terminal can be used to control a Linux device. Terminal is a tool that comes default with a full fat Unix or Linux oprating

Github - Basic commands

Github - Basic commands The windows portable git will work in most cases when you are working on Windows OS. Initiate the git in the current folder. Right click and open the git bash.  Opening the git client If on command line, git init should work. git init Cloning the entire remote repo to a local location with root folder name as the repo name. git clone https://github.com/rapidsailor/ShellScripts Now navigate to the the newly created folders. Use cd command as needed. Make some code changes.  To verify the changes and status git status Add any new files to the repo or add the changes to existing files. git add Commit the changes Commits all the changes to the remote repo. This may ask for your github user and password. git commit -m “comment for check-in” Note : Any file changes to be done using the vi, ( i for insert mode, put in some comments. All the lines starting with # will be ignored. put some new lines without # as starting char.) esc for going to command mode