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Operating Systems

Basic Linux Commands

Name:Thanu Athitya M
Reg No:22BDS0170

Aim: To perform basic commands in Linux.

1. mkdir – creates a new folder/directory

2. cd – navigates to the current folder/directory


3. touch – creates an empty file in the particular folder/directory

4. ls – list the files present in the current directory

5. clear – clears the terminal


6. pwd – Gives the current working directory path

7. cat – Prints the content present in the text file in terminal


8. echo – displays the lines of text which are passed as arguments

9. echo – rewrites the content of whatever has been written in the existing document
10. wc – count the number of lines, words and characters in the file.

11. cp – copy the contents of one file to another file


12. mv – move the files to the current working directory.

13. date – shows the current date

14. file – tells what sort of file it is


(This is the current working directory for the above command)

15. cal – to display the current month’s calendar

16. Sleep – to pass the current terminal

17. cc – compile a C program


(The c program file has been compiled.)

18. quota – Shows how much disk space has been left

19. rmdir - Delete a directory.


After deleting demo folder:
20. rm – Delete files

21. uname – check the complete OS information of the system.


22. ps – check the active processes in the terminal.

23. whoami – provides basic information, which is extremely useful when working on multiple systems.

24. Sort – sort the data in alphabetical order in a specified file.

25. cmp – Compare two files and display the line and byte difference

(Demo.txt)

(Demo1.txt)

26. diff – Displays the different contents present in two files.

(Taking the example of the above two text files – Demo.txt and Demo1.txt).
27. grep – used to find a specific string in a series of outputs.

(Taking the example of Demo.txt)

28. more – used to view the contents of a file one screen at a time.

(Taking the example of Demo1.txt)

29. df – used to display the amount of disk space used and available on the file systems.

30. man – display the manual page for the specific command.

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