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OS Commands

1- PWD: show Current Directory (Present working directory)


2- LS: List all files and directories in your current directory
3- LS -al: List detailed information about files
4- Cd /directoryname (ex: cd /bin): change directory to another
5- cd: move to home
6- cd /: move to root
7- cat > filename: create a new file and add the content then press ctrl+d to return to command line
8- cat filename: show content of the file

9- cat file1 file2 > newfile: merge 2 files in one file


10- rm filename: remove a file
11- MV: Renaming the file or directory
12- mkdir directoryname: Create a directory
13- rmdir directoryname: remove a directory
14- Man commandname (Man history): gives information about this command
15- History: shows all the commands that you have used.
16- pr -x filename (pr -3 file1): divides the data into 3 columns.
17- pr -h “Header” filename: Making header for file.
18- pr -n filename: denotes all the lines in the file with numbers
19- Chmod (764) filename: changing the permissions of file by ABSOLUTE(NUMERIC)
METHOD 20- Chmod (g+w) filename: changing the permissions of file by SYMBOLIC METHOD
21- ls -al > listing: redirect the output

22- echo “welcome” >> filename: add more content to an existing file
23- cat Filename | less: Pipe is a command in Linux that lets you use two or more
commands 24- cat filename | grep (word): search a particular information in the file
25- cat filename | grep -v (word or letter): Shows all the lines that do
not match the searched string

26- cat filename | grep -i (word or letter): Match both (upper and
lower) case

27- cat filename | grep -c (word or letter): Displays only the count
of matching lines

28- cat filename | grep -n (word or letter): Shows the matching line and
its number

29- Sort filename: sorting the contents of a file alphabetically


30- Sort -r filename: reverse sorting
31- Sort -n filename: sort numerically
32- cat filename | grep -i a | sort -r: filtered output of the first command is given to the
next 33- Variablename=vale: creating a new variable

34- echo $VARIABLENAME: determine value of a variable


35- unset variablename: remove a Variable from the system

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