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Kiran Sethumadhavan
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Top 50 Linux Commands You Must Know as a Regular User

The top 50 Linux Commands You Must Know as a Regular User are

  1. ls - view contents of directory (list)

  2. pwd - path of the current directory

  3. cd - change directory

  4. mkdir - make new directory

  5. mv - move files / rename files

  6. cp - copy files

  7. rm - remove files

  8. touch - create blank new file

  9. rmdir - delete directory

  10. cat - list content of file to terminal

  11. clear - clear terminal window

  12. echo - move data into a file

  13. less - Read text file one screen at a time

  14. man - show manual of Linux commands

  15. sudo - enables you to perform tasks that require administrative or root permissions

  16. top - task manager in terminal

  17. tar - used to archive multiple files into a tarball

  18. grep - used to searching words in specific files

  19. head - view first lines of any text file

  20. tail - view last lines of any text file

  21. diff - compares the contents of two files line by line

  22. kill - used for killing unresponsive program

  23. jobs - display all current jobs along with their statuses

  24. sort - is a command line utility for sorting lines of text files

  25. df - info about system disk

  26. du - check how much space a file or directory takes

  27. zip - to compress your files into a zip archive

  28. unzip - to extract the zipped files from a zip archive

  29. ssh - a secure encrypted connection between two hosts over and insecure network

  30. cal - shows calendar

  31. apt - command line tool for interaction with packaging system

  32. alias - custom shortcuts used to represent a command

  33. w - current user info

  34. whereis - used to locate the binary, source, manual page files

  35. whatis - used to get one-line man page description

  36. useradd - used to create a new user

  37. passwd - used to changing password of current user

  38. whoami - print current user

  39. uptime - print current time when machine starts

  40. free - print free disk space info

  41. history - print used commands history

  42. uname - print detailed information about your Linux system

  43. ping - to check connectivity status to a server

  44. chmod - to change permissions of files and directories

  45. chown - to change ownership of files and directories

  46. find - using find searches for files and directories

  47. locate - used to locate a file, just like the search command in Windows

  48. ifconfig - print ip address stuff

  49. ip a - similar to ifconfig but shortest print

  50. finger - gives you a short dump of info about a user

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Jon Randy 🎖️

touch is actually for updating the last access date/time of a file. The fact that it creates the file if it doesn't exist is just a convenient side effect

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Kiran Sethumadhavan

yes you are right !, but it can also be used for creating a file.