Bash: Executing Commands

Executing commands in Bash is typically the same throughout all shells. You are presented with a prompt:

[user@localhost ~]$

You simply type in the name of the command you would like executed:

[user@localhost ~]$ date
Tue Feb 24 08:48:02 EST 2009

As you can see from the above example, I executed the date command and it printed the date to the shell.