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The document provides information on several Linux commands: 1. The cat command is used to display the contents of a file and is commonly used to view programs. 2. Nano and vi are pre-installed text editors that can be used to create and edit files. Nano uses color-coding and vi is simpler. 3. The sudo command runs other commands with administrative privileges, such as editing configuration files that require root access.

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Cat - Use The Cat Command To Display The Contents of A File. It Is

The document provides information on several Linux commands: 1. The cat command is used to display the contents of a file and is commonly used to view programs. 2. Nano and vi are pre-installed text editors that can be used to create and edit files. Nano uses color-coding and vi is simpler. 3. The sudo command runs other commands with administrative privileges, such as editing configuration files that require root access.

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 cat — Use the cat command to display the contents of a file.

It is
usually used to easily view programs.

3. nano, vi, jed — nano and vi are already installed text editors in the


Linux command line. The nano command is a good text editor that
denotes keywords with color and can recognize most languages.
And vi is simpler than nano. You can create a new file or modify a
file using this editor. For example, if you need to make a new file
named "check.txt", you can create it by using the command “nano
check.txt”. You can save your files after editing by using the
sequence Ctrl+X, then Y (or N for no). In my experience,
using nano for HTML editing doesn't seem as good, because of its
color, so I recommend jed text editor. We will come to installing
packages soon.
4. sudo — A widely used command in the Linux command
line, sudo stands for "SuperUser Do". So, if you want any command
to be done with administrative or root privileges, you can use
the sudo command. For example, if you want to edit a file like viz.
alsa-base.conf, which needs root permissions, you can use the
command – sudo nano alsa-base.conf. You can enter the root
command line using the command “sudo bash”, then type in your
user password. You can also use the command “su” to do this, but
you need to set a root password before that. For that, you can use the
command “sudo passwd”(not misspelled, it is passwd). Then type in
the new root password.
5. df — Use the df command to see the available disk space in each
of the partitions in your system. You can just type in df in the
command line and you can see each mounted partition and their
used/available space in % and in KBs. If you want it shown in
megabytes, you can use the command “df -m”.

6. du — Use du to know the disk usage of a file in your system. If


you want to know the disk usage for a particular folder or file in
Linux, you can type in the command df and the name of the folder or
file. For example, if you want to know the disk space used by the
documents folder in Linux, you can use the command “du
Documents”. You can also use the command “ls -lah” to view the file
sizes of all the files in a folder.

7. tar — Use tar to work with tarballs (or files compressed in a


tarball archive) in the Linux command line. It has a long list of uses.
It can be used to compress and uncompress different types of tar
archives like .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2,etc. It works on the basis of the
arguments given to it. For example, "tar -cvf" for creating
a .tar archive, -xvf to untar a tar archive, -tvf to list the contents of
the archive, etc. Since it is a wide topic, here are some examples of tar
commands.

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