August 26, 2007 at 4:38 am
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| man |
Get help. |
| cd |
Move to a different directory. |
| pwd |
Print working directory. |
| find |
Search directories for matching files. |
| whereis |
Find files from files directories. |
| locate |
Locate files from locate’s database - locatedb. |
| updatedb |
Update locatedb database. |
| whatis |
Get command summaries. |
| makewhatis |
Build the whatis database (db of command summaries). |
| apropos |
Search for whatis database to get the program you want. |
| ls |
List files and directories. |
| dir |
List directories. |
| tree |
List graphic directory. |
| cat |
List, create, and combine files. |
| more |
Read files. |
| less |
Read files (allows scrolling, have more options than the more command). |
| head,tail |
Read the beginning and the end of files. |
| touce |
Create files. |
| rm |
Delete files. |
| mkdir |
Create directories. |
| rmdir |
Removing directories. |
| mv |
Rename files. |
| cp |
Copy files. |
| ln |
Create hard and symbolic links. |
| mc |
Visual shell that display files. |
| grep, egrep, fgrep, zgrep |
Search inside files (zgrep can search compressed files). |
| tar |
Create archives file. |
| cpio |
Copy files in and out of tar or cpio archives. |
| gzip, gunzip |
Compress and uncompress files. |
| compress |
Compress files. |
| ps |
Process status command. |
| kill |
Terminate a process. |
| Ctrl-z |
Put a running program into background in bash shell. |
| fg |
Bring back a program from background. |
| pine |
A Linux mail program. |
| job |
Get a list of suspended programs. |
| sc |
A Linux spreadsheet program. |
| mount, umount |
Mount or unmount a file system. |
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