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Linux Commands

The document discusses various Linux commands used for file and directory management, compression and archiving, searching, networking and permissions. Commands covered include mkdir, ls, rm, tree, gedit, mv, cp, more, less, head, tail, wc, du, tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, unzip, which, whereis, apropos, find, locate, grep, history, w, who, whoami, ifconfig, ping, ln, free, df, chmod, ssh, and scp.

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Linux Commands

The document discusses various Linux commands used for file and directory management, compression and archiving, searching, networking and permissions. Commands covered include mkdir, ls, rm, tree, gedit, mv, cp, more, less, head, tail, wc, du, tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, unzip, which, whereis, apropos, find, locate, grep, history, w, who, whoami, ifconfig, ping, ln, free, df, chmod, ssh, and scp.

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mkdir -p - this is used to create multiple directories.

can also be used to creat e directories one inside the other in a single step ls -l -used for longlisting ls -a -used to see all files,folders(including hidden ones) rm -r -used to delete directories which contain something in them. rm -f -delete something forcefully rm -i -prompt before deleting anything tree -a -shows even hidden files,folders in tree format tree -f -shows path for each file,folder gedit (Not shell command, GUI editor)-text editor mv-used to rename or move files cp -r -copy folders cp -p - copy things including permissions more -displays the contents of a file one screenful at a time less -similar to more but it is more efficient(we can scroll up and down as well ) head -used to display first 10 lines of a file head -<number> -displays the first <number> number of lines the above two statements hold for tail as well wc -used to count the number of lines words characters of a file( -w for words, -c for characters, -l for lines) du, du -s, du -h, -find out the size of a folder tar cvf -for creating a tar archive tar xvf -for extracting a tar archive gzip -for creating a gz archive gunzip -for extracting a gz archive bzip2 -for creating a bz2 archive bunzip2 -for extracting a bz2 archive zip -for creating a zip archive unzip -for extracting a zip archive which -shows path of the command whereis -shows the binary,manual page of the command apropos -for searching the manual pages find -search for files in a particular directory locate -search for files in the entire system grep <word> <filename> -search for a word in the file grep -A<n> - display the <n> trailing lines after each match to the word in a li ne grep -B<n> -display the <n> preceeding lines after each match to the word in a line history - shows the commands u have executed w -find out who are logged ina the system and what they are doing\ who -find out who are logged in whoami -find out who the present user is /sbin/ifconfig -find out the IP address ping -used to check connectivity ln -used to create a hard link , ln -s -used to create a soft link free -find out the free RAM space available df -find out the space availaible in partitions chmod -used to change permissions on a file ssh -used to login as somebody <syntax>=ssh user @server.ac.in scp -used to copy files from one system to another <syntax> -scp <IP address 1>:path of file <IP address of 2>:path of destination

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