There were a few commands in this lab whose function I was well familiar with, but the commands themselves were new. For instance ifconfig instead of ipconfig to display your network information. Ping works pretty much exactly like it does on Windows, which was fun to see. We also learned how to adjust the hostname on the machine itself. A fun thing I learned was that just using the hostname command only temporarily changes the hostname. To permanently adjust your hostname, you must use the vi editor to adjust the /etc/hostname file and only then will the changes remain past reboots.
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