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Explain the terms “shell”, “terminal”, “cli”, and “command prompt”. Why are these still used today, when we have graphical interfaces?

The terms, shell, terminal, CLI, and command prompt, are all different forms of ways of sending text commands to a server that is also wrapped with tools so that way it can execute text based programs to have basic functionality on the computer. It is still used today due to the fact that it is still efficient and still faster than running any kind of graphical program due to it just being text which makes it extremely lightweight, resource wise.

What are the commands to change directories, list the file’s contents and rename/move files?

The commands to change directories, list a file's contents, and rename/move files are cd, ls, and mv respectively.

What are relative and absolute paths? What is special about starting with a ~ (tilde) or a ‘/’ character in the path?

Relative paths are paths the paths that are in the folder that you are currently in while absolute path is the entire path starting from the root directory. Starting with the tilde means that the path is going to start with your home directory such as /home/user while starting with a slash means that your path is starting in the root directory.

Explain what Linux is, using anything except English.

Linux は、主にコミュニティによって保守されているオープンソースの無料オペレーティング システムです.

Things I would like to know more about

I would like to know more about the multiple different layers of the linux operating system

Source: Linux command line for beginners