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Terminal Commands

The document provides commands for navigating directories, listing files, copying and moving files, creating and removing directories and users, and sorting and searching for files in Linux/Unix systems. Commands include cd, pwd, ls, mkdir, rmdir, rm, cp, mv, sudo, find and sort.

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Terminal Commands

The document provides commands for navigating directories, listing files, copying and moving files, creating and removing directories and users, and sorting and searching for files in Linux/Unix systems. Commands include cd, pwd, ls, mkdir, rmdir, rm, cp, mv, sudo, find and sort.

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cd --> change Directory.

pwd --> Present Working Directory.


ls --> List files
ls -l ---> list files with details.
mkdir new_folder_name
rmdir folder_name ---> to remove directory containing no folders.
rm -r folder_name ---> to remove the directory containing the files within it.
cp frompath topath.
mv oldfile_name newfile_name
which program_name --> will give
sudo adduser name ---> give new password and full name
sudo deluser --remove-home venky ---> to remove the user.
cd / ---> will redirect to root folder
cd ~ --> will redirect to home directory.

cd ~/Documents --> from anywhere you can get redirectd to Dcouments folder.

cp *.py tofolderpath ---> moves specific files extensions to the folder mentioned.

ls > filenamewithextension --> will copy the pwd file names and saves them in
newfile mentioned
sort -M -r monthsname in reverseorder
sort -n -r numericalfile in reverseorder
sort textfile

> --> this greater symbol is used for the creating the file and store the
contents of the
file before the greater symbol in the file
mentioned afer the great symbol

find ~ -name "*.txt" ---> search for text files * indicate that any type of file
or text or all

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