𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝟓𝟎 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐱 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬: 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 🐧
𝐩𝐰𝐝 - Print working directory. 📂
𝐥𝐬 - List directory contents. 📋
𝐜𝐝 - Change directory. 📁
𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 - To create a file without any content. 📄
𝐜𝐚𝐭 - Concatenate and display file content. 🐱
𝐜𝐩 - Copy files or directories. 📁📂
𝐦𝐯 - Move or rename files or directories. 🔄
𝐫𝐦 - Remove files or directories. 🗑️
𝐦𝐤𝐝𝐢𝐫 - Create a new directory. 📁
𝐫𝐦𝐝𝐢𝐫 - Remove an empty directory. 📁🗑️
𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐨 - Display a line of text or a variable value. 📢
𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐨 - A simple text editor. ✏️
𝐯𝐢 - A powerful text editor. ✒️
𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐝 - Change file or directory permissions. 🔐
𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐧 - Change file or directory owner and group. 👤
𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 - Search for files in a directory hierarchy. 🔍
𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐩 - Search text using patterns. 🔎
𝐦𝐚𝐧 - Display the manual for a command. 📖
𝐩𝐬 - Display information about running processes. 🔄
𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 - Terminate processes by PID. ⚰️
𝐭𝐨𝐩 - Display and update sorted information about processes. 📊
𝐝𝐟 - Report file system disk space usage. 💾
𝐝𝐮 - Estimate file space usage. 📏
𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 - Display memory usage. 🧠
𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 - Print system information. ℹ️
𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - Tell how long the system has been running. ⏳
𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐚𝐦𝐢 - Display the current user. 👤
𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐨 - Execute a command as another user, typically the superuser. 🛡️
𝐚𝐩𝐭-𝐠𝐞𝐭 - Package handling utility for Debian-based distributions. 📦
𝐲𝐮𝐦 - Package manager for RPM-based distributions. 🍲
𝐭𝐚𝐫 - Archive files. 🗃️
𝐳𝐢𝐩 - Package and compress (archive) files. 📦
𝐮𝐧𝐳𝐢𝐩 - Extract compressed files. 📂
𝐰𝐠𝐞𝐭 - Retrieve files from the web. 🌐
𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥 - Transfer data from or to a server. 🔄
𝐬𝐬𝐡 - OpenSSH client (remote login program). 🚪
𝐬𝐜𝐩 - Secure copy (remote file copy program). 🔒
𝐫𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜 - Remote file and directory synchronization. 🔄
𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 - Show or set the system's host name. 🏠
𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 - Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts. 📶
𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭 - Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships. 🌐
𝐢𝐟𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐠 - Configure a network interface. 🌐
𝐢𝐩 - Show/manipulate routing, devices, policy routing, and tunnels. 🌐
𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 - Administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT. 🛡️
𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐜𝐭𝐥 - Control the systemd system and service manager. 🔄
𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐭𝐥 - Query and display messages from the journal. 📜
𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛 - Schedule periodic background jobs. ⏰
𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐮 - Allows us to switch to a different user and execute one or more commands in the shell without logging out from our current session. 🛡️
𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 - Mount a file system. 📂
𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 - Unmount a file system. 📂
🐧 Use these commands to interact with your Linux system and perform various administrative tasks! 🚀
Top comments (14)
That's a great summary. Adding
htopas it provides us the very nice UI and metrics of our process usageSome ppl might have to install that first, there is also
topwhich is usually installed by default :)A humble suggestion; Instead of "sudo su", "sudo -i" would be more correct.
Thanks for the comments
for detailed process you can use glances also but you have to install first
can you please guide me for that ?
helpful!! :)
thanks for your comment
A little curiosity: the touch command is not primarily intended to create a new file; it is used to change the access and/or modification date and time of an existing file. However, if you use touch on a non-existent file, it will create a new file. To explicitly create a new file, you can use:
nice article!
very helpful
Thanks a lot!!
If there is example for each command it would be even more helpful
will share each & every Example Later Thanks
Nice resource