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Linux Command Cheat Sheet With 100 Commonly Used Commands

Linux command cheat sheet with 100 commonly used commands

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Linux Command Cheat Sheet With 100 Commonly Used Commands

Linux command cheat sheet with 100 commonly used commands

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Here’s a Linux command cheat sheet with 100 commonly used commands:

1. pwd — Print the current working directory.

2. ls — List directory contents.

3. cd — Change directory.

4. mkdir — Create a new directory.

5. rm — Remove files or directories.

6. cp — Copy files and directories.

7. mv — Move or rename files and directories.

8. touch — Create an empty file or update the timestamp of an existing file.

9. cat — Display the contents of a file.

10. head — Display the first few lines of a file.

11. tail — Display the last few lines of a file.

12. grep — Search for a pattern in files.

13. find — Search for files and directories.

14. tar — Create or extract tar archives.

15. gzip — Compress files.

16. gunzip — Decompress files compressed with gzip.

17.zip — Create or extract zip archives.


18. unzip — Extract files from a zip archive.

19. ssh — Connect to a remote server using SSH.

20. scp — Copy files between local and remote machines over SSH.

21. wget — Download files from the web.

22. curl — Transfer data from or to a server using various protocols.

23. man — Display the manual pages for a command.

24. which — Display the location of a command.

25. history — Display the command history.

26. sudo — Run a command with administrative privileges.

27. su — Switch to another user account.

28. chmod — Change the permissions of a file or directory.

29. chown — Change the ownership of a file or directory.

30. chgrp — Change the group ownership of a file or directory.

31. du — Estimate file and directory space usage.

32. df — Display disk space usage.

33. top — Display system resource usage and running processes.

34. ps — Display running processes.

35. kill — Terminate processes.

36. ifconfig — Configure network interfaces.


37. ping — Send ICMP echo requests to a host.

38. nslookup — Query DNS servers for DNS records.

39. netstat — Display network connections, routing tables, and interface


statistics.

40. ssh-keygen — Generate SSH key pairs.

41. grep — Search for a pattern in files.

42. awk — Text processing tool for extracting and manipulating data.

43. sed — Stream editor for text manipulation.

44. diff — Compare files line by line.

45. sort — Sort lines of text files.

46. cut — Extract sections from lines of files.

47. wc — Count lines, words, and characters in a file.

48. tee — Redirect output to multiple files or processes.

49. uptime — Display system uptime and load averages.

50. who — Display logged-in users.

51. date — Display or set the system date and time.

52. cal — Display a calendar.

53. tar — Create or extract tar archives.

54. df — Display disk space usage.


55. free — Display memory usage.

56. uname — Display system information.

57. ifconfig — Configure network interfaces.

58. route — Display or manipulate the IP routing table.

59. iptables — Administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT.

60. shutdown — Shut down or reboot the system.

61. reboot — Reboot the system.

62. halt — Halt the system.

63. locate — Find files by name.

64. updatedb — Update the file database used by ‘locate’.

65. alias — Create an alias for a command.

66. source — Execute commands from a file in the current shell.

67. tar — Create or extract tar archives.

68. gzip — Compress files.

69. gunzip — Decompress files compressed with gzip.

70. zip — Create or extract zip archives.

71.unzip — Extract files from a zip archive.

72. crontab — Schedule commands or scripts to run at specified intervals.


73. nohup — Run a command immune to hangups and with output to a
non-tty.

74. wget — Download files from the web.

75. curl — Transfer data from or to a server using various protocols.

76. grep — Search for a pattern in files.

77. find — Search for files and directories.

78. wc — Count lines, words, and characters in a file.

79. sed — Stream editor for text manipulation.

80. awk — Text processing tool for extracting and manipulating data.

81. cut — Extract sections from lines of files.

82. sort — Sort lines of text files.

83. diff — Compare files line by line.

84. ssh — Connect to a remote server using SSH.

85. scp — Copy files between local and remote machines over SSH.

86. rsync — Synchronize files and directories between systems.

87. crontab — Schedule commands or scripts to run at specified intervals.

88. tar — Create or extract tar archives.

89. top — Display system resource usage and running processes.

90. ps — Display running processes.


91. kill — Terminate processes.

92. lsof — List open files and processes that use them.

93. lscpu — Display information about the CPU architecture.

94. lshw — Display detailed hardware configuration.

95. lspci — Display information about PCI devices.

96. lsusb — Display information about USB devices.

97. uname — Display system information.

98. iftop — Display network bandwidth usage.

99. sar — Collect, report, or save system activity information.

100. nc — Netcat utility for reading from and writing to network


connections.

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