Using terminal

[John Heim]

I'm trying to convert from Windows to MacOS. The one thing i need the most 
is to ssh to my linux machine. I can't figure out how to do that. I 
understand you use a program called terminal. I've run that and I think it's 
giving me a bash prompt -- which would be way cool. However, when I type a 
command, nothing happens.  I mean, I run terminal, I hear it says "bash" I 
think. But then if I type something like "ls", I do not hear a file list.

Anybody got a tutorial on using terminal with voiceover?