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  2. cd (command) - Wikipedia

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    A directory is a logical section of a file system used to hold files. Directories may also contain other directories. The cd command can be used to change into a subdirectory, move back into the parent directory, move all the way back to the root directory or move to any given directory.

  3. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    MS-DOS command prompt with drive letter C as part of the current working directory. File Manager displaying the contents of drive C.. In computer data storage, drive letter assignment is the process of assigning alphabetical identifiers to volumes.

  4. Device file - Wikipedia

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    ttyUSB: USB serial converters, modems, etc. The canonical list of the prefixes used in Linux can be found in the Linux Device List, the official registry of allocated device numbers and /dev directory nodes for the Linux operating system. [11] For most devices, this prefix is followed by a number uniquely identifying the particular device.

  5. Live USB - Wikipedia

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    Non-Macintosh systems, notably Windows and Linux, may not be typically booted in EFI mode and thus USB booting may be limited to supported hardware and software combinations that can easily be booted via EFI. [8] However, programs like Mac Linux USB Loader can alleviate the difficulties of the task of booting a Linux-live USB on a Mac.

  6. Startup Disk Creator - Wikipedia

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    Startup Disk Creator (USB-creator) is an official tool to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from the Live CD or from an ISO image. The tool is included by default in all releases after Ubuntu 8.04, and can be installed on Ubuntu 8.04. A KDE frontend was released for Ubuntu 8.10, and is currently included by default in Kubuntu installations. The KDE ...

  7. NDISwrapper - Wikipedia

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    It's possible from a Linux driver (NDISwrapper is a Linux driver) to call a Windows driver because they both execute in the same address space (the same as the Linux kernel). If the Windows driver is composed of layered drivers (for example one for Ethernet above one for USB) it's the upper layer driver which is called, and this upper layer ...

  8. Command-line interface - Wikipedia

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    A command prompt (or just prompt) is a sequence of (one or more) characters used in a command-line interface to indicate readiness to accept commands. It literally prompts the user to take action. A prompt usually ends with one of the characters $ , % , # , [ 18 ] [ 19 ] : , > or - [ 20 ] and often includes other information, such as the path ...

  9. Shell (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Command Prompt, a CLI shell in Windows Bash, a widely adopted Unix shell. A command-line interface (CLI) is an operating system shell that uses alphanumeric characters typed on a keyboard to provide instructions and data to the operating system