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Accessing the Linux CLI from Windows

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Accessing the Linux CLI from Windows

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- To access the Linux command line remotely from Windows. We're going to use a free program called PuTTy. You'll need your Linux host IP address for this exercise. On your Windows machine you can go to putty.org in a web browser and click on download PuTTy here. This will take you to the PuTTy download page. Scroll down until you get to putty.exc for your CPU type and click on it. This will save it in the downloads folder. As soon as it's downloaded, click on run. Notice that we didn't install PuTTy at all. We just downloaded an executable. This is important because it means you can carry it around on a USB thumb drive and use it to connect to your Linux host from any Windows machine even without administrator rights. PuTTy does have installation packages if you want a more persistent installation. It also includes some other tools including an SFTP client and an SCP client. It may be worthwhile for you to check out…

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