LINUX BASIC COMMANDS | For biginner | linux | 50+ commands

LINUX BASIC COMMANDS  | For biginner | linux| 50+ commands

LINUX BASIC COMMANDS  | For biginner | linux| 50+ commands

Linux basic commands

LINUX BASIC COMMANDS | For biginner | linux| 50+ commands

 alias: Allows you to set aliases and view the current aliases. 

awk: Search for a pattern within a file.

 alien: Converts .tgz and rpm's to .deb format. 

banner: Prints characters as a poster. 

badblocks: Searches a device for bad blocks.

 biff: Turns mail notification on and off. bg: move a job running in the foreground to the background.

 bzip2: Used to compress and decompress files. Similar to gzip.

 cardctl: Used to control PCMCIA cards.

 cfdisk: Used to partition a hard disk. 

cp: Copy

 chattr: Changes the attributes of a file or folder. 

chroot: Change the root directory for a command. 

chmod: Used to change permissions on a directory or file. 

chown: Used to change the owner of a file or directory.

 chgrp: Used to change the group a file belongs to. 

clear: Clears the screen cpio: Copies file. 

cat: Displays the content of a file

 chpasswd: Used to change a large number of passwords at once.

 cd: Changes directories.

 chage: Sets password aging parameters.

 cal: Displays a calendar.

 cron: Used to execute commands at a certain time. 

crontab: Allows you to view or edit the current cron jobs. 

dselect: A graphical front end for dpkg.

 dpkg: Installs packages on debain distro's.

 date: Prints current date to the screen

 du: Lists disk usage in a directory.

 df: Reports disk usage information. 

df -h dmesg: Used to view the kernel boot file. 

dump: Used for backing up. edquota: Sets quotas for specific users.

 env: Lists current environment variables.

 fdisk: Used to create/edit/delete partitions.

 fsck: Checks a file system for consistency.

 fg: Used to send jobs to the background.

 fuser: Checks to see what processes and users have open files.

 find: Searches for a file. 

free: Will show total memory, used memory, and free memory.

 gcc: Used to compile C, Assembler, and Preprocessed C source.

 gpasswd: Used to set a password for a group.

 grep: Used to search through a file for a specified pattern.

 getty: Set terminal type, modes, speed, and line discipline .

groupadd: Create new group account.

 groupdel: Deletes a group.

 groupmod: Used to modify a group. 

groups: Shows what groups a user is part of. 

gunzip: Uncompress files compressed by gzip. 

head: Displays the first 10 lines of a file to the screen. 

hdparm: Gets disk information.

 history: Lists recently executed commands.

 host:Used to get DNS info.