LINUX IMPORTANT & BASIC COMMANDS..



 LINUX IMPORTANT & BASIC COMMANDS

File/Directory Basics Command

Ls                                List files
cp                                Copy files
mv                               Rename files
rm                                Delete files
ln                                  Link files
cd                                Change directory
pwd                              Print current directory name
mkdir                            Create directory
rmdir                             Delete directory

File Viewing Commands

Cat                              View files
less                             Page through files
head                            View file beginning
tail                               View file ending
nl                                 Number lines
od                                View binary data
xxd                              View binary data
gv                                View Postscript/PDF files
xdvi                              View TeX DVI files

File Creation and Editing Commands

emacs                         Text editor
vim                              Text editor
umask                         Set default file protections
soffice                         Edit Word/Excel/  PowerPoint docs
abiword                       Edit Word documents
gnumeric                     Edit Excel documents

File Properties Commands

stat                              Display file attributes
wc                               Count bytes/words/lines
du                                Measure disk usage
file                               Identify file types
touch                           Change file timestamps
chown                         Change file owner
chgrp                           Change file group
chmod                         Change file protections
chattr                           Change advanced file attributes
 lsattr                           List advanced file
                                    attributes
                                



File Location Commands

Find                            Locate files
slocate                        Locate files via index which Locate commands
whereis                       Locate standard files

File Text Manipulation Commands

grep                            Search text for matching lines
cut                               Extract columns
paste                           Append columns
tr                                 Translate characters
sort                              Sort lines
uniq                             Locate identical lines
tee                               Copy stdin to a file and
to                                 stdout simultaneously

File Compression Commands

Gzip                             Compress files (GNU Zip)
compress                     Compress files (Unix)
bzip2                            Compress files (BZip2)
zip                                Compress files
                                     (Windows Zip)

File Comparison Commands

Diff                              Compare files line by line
Comm.                        Compare sorted files
Cmp                            Compare files byte by byte
md5sum                     Compute checksums

Disks and Filesystems Commands

df                                Show free disk space
mount                         Make a disk accessible
fsck                             Check a disk for errors
sync                            Flush disk caches

Backups and Remote Storage Commands

mt                                Control a tape drive
dump                           Back up a disk
restore                         Restore a dump
tar                                Read/write tape archives
cdrecord                      Burn a CD 
rsync                           Mirror a set of files

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