Types of shell commands

We can find internal and external commands.
Comandos internos fazem parte do próprio shell.
Comandos externos são binários armazenados nos diretórios /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, /bin ou /usr/local/bin.

Text typed into the terminal can be divided into three parts, the command, options starting with or, and the argument. These divisions must be separated by spaces.

As an example, let’s list the files inside the tmp folder, using a long listing.

ls -l /tmp/