Questions Command

Listing all files and folder presents in current folder # ls

Listing all files and folder in reverse order # ls –r
Listing all files and folder in Long Listing Format # ls –l
Listing last modified files and folder # ls –t
Listing hidden files and Folders # ls –a
Listing hidden files and folders excepts .(Dot) Folders # ls –A
Listing data by their type # ls –F
Listing files and folders with disabling the colors # ls –f
Listing files and folders with their respective inode number # ls –i
Listing files and folder in Recursive format # ls –R
Listing the files and folder with their respective size # ls –s
Listing files and folders in human readable form # ls –h
Listing all files and folders with disable color and by file type # ls –fF
Read content of file using cat command # cat 0< filename
Read content of file with line numbers # cat –n filename
Read content of file and skip the blank line number to print # cat –b filename
Read content of multiple files simultaneously # cat file1 file2
Create a new file with some content (Save : CTRL + D) # cat > filename
Append some extra data to an existing file # cat >> filename
Copy content of one file to another # cat file1 > file2
Append content of one file to another # cat file1 >> file2
Copy of content of multiple files to a single file # cat File1 File2 > file3
View content of file in vertical Reverse order # tac filename
View content of file in horizontal Reverse order # rev filename
View First 10 Lines of the file # head –n 10 filename
# head -10 filename
View content of file except last 10 lines # head –n -10 filename
View n numbers of characters of a file # head –c n filename
View n numbers of characters except last n number of characters # head –c –n filename
View Last 10 Lines of the file # tail –n 10 filename
 # tail -10 filename
View Last n number of characters of the file # tail –c n filename
View content of file in range of lines [a-b] # head –b filename | tail b-a+1
From 3rd to 7th Line # head -7 filename | tail -5
From 45th to 90th Line # head -90 filename | tail -46
From 15th to 23rd Line # head -23 filename | tail -9

Count Number of Lines in a file # wc –l filename

Count Number of Characters in a file # wc –c filename
Count Number of Words in a file # wc –w filename
Count Number of Lines, words, Characters in a file # wc filename
Count Number of Lines and Words in file # wc –lw filename
Count Number of Lines and Characters in a file # wc –lc filename
Count Number of Words and Characters in a file # wc –wc filename
Print Number of characters present in longest line # wc –L filename

Redirect the output of ls command to a file # ls > filename

Redirect the output of cal command to an existing file # cal >> filename
Write to a file using cat command and redirection # cat > filename
Append to a file using cat command and redirection # cat >> filename
Show standard output for ls command to a file # ls 1> filename
Show standard output for ls command to a file as appending # ls 1>> filename
Redirect standard errors to a file not to terminal # cal linux 2> error
Redirect standard errors to an existing file # cal linux 2>> error
Redirect standard input from terminal to a file # cat 0< filename
Redirect standard input and standard output from/to a file # cat 0< input 1> output
Read input from a.txt and write output to b.txt, and if error comes then write to c.txt # cat 0< a.txt 1> b.txt 2> c.txt
Redirect standard output and error to a common file # cat a.txt 1> o.txt 2> o.txt
# cat a.txt &> o.txt
Append standard output and error to a common file # cat a.txt &>> o.txt
How to see current Terminal Number or TTY # tty
Redirect standard output from one terminal to another terminal # ls 1> /dev/pts/1