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EXPERIMENT-1

Practicing of basic UNIX commands.


1) The man command:
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals man is the system's
manual pager. Each page argument given to man is normally the name of
a program, utility or function.
Example:
$man pwd

2) The who command:


who - show who is logged on Print information about users who are
currently logged in.
Example:
$who
root console july 2 10:30
aaa tty01 july 2 10:40
bbb tty02 july 2 10:55

3) The cat command:


cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output Concatenate
FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.
Example:
$cat > newfile
Hi
Hell
Welcome
$
The input operation is terminated by using <ctrl+d> command
4) The mkdir command:
mkdir - make directories
It creates the directories if they do not already exist.
Example:
$mkdir user1
$
5) The cd command:
cd - change directories
It is a command-line OS shell command used to change the current
working directory
Example:
$cd user1
user1]$
6) The cp command:
cp - copy files and directories
This command is used to create a duplicate of a file, a set of files or a
directory The cp command copies both text and binary files
Syntax:
$cp source-file/directory destination-file/directory
Examples:
i) $cp file1 file2
ii) $cp dir1/file1 dir1/file2
7) The ls command:
ls - list directory contents
This command lists the contents in a directory.
Syntax:
$ls
Example:
$ls
8) The mv command:
mv - move (rename) files
This command is used to move either an individual file, a list of files or a
directory
Syntax:
$mv source-file/directory destination-file/directory
Example:
$mv dir1/file1 dir2
The mv command is also used to rename a file or directory
Syntax:
$mv old-file-name new-file-name
Example:
$mv file1 file7
9) The rm command:
rm - remove files or directories
This command is used remove a file or a directory
Syntax:
$rm filename
Example:
$rm file1
10) The rmdir command:
rmdir - remove empty directories
This command is used to delete a directory
Syntax:
$rmdir directory-name
Example:
$rmdir user1
11) The echo command:
echo - display a line of text
This command is used to display messages. It takes zero, one or more
arguments.
Example:
$echo “Hello World”
Hello World
12) The date command:
date - print or set the system date and time
Using this command, the user can display the current date along with the
time nearest to the second
Example:
$date
Sat Jan 10 11:58:00 IST 2004
$
13) The time command:
time - time a simple command or give resource usage
This command is used to know the resource usage It runs a program or
command with given arguments, generates a timing statistics about the
program run and directs this statistics report to the standard output.
Example:
$time
real 0m0.000s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
$
14) The kill command:
kill - terminate a process
To kill a background process a kill command is used.
This command is given with the PID of the process to be killed as its
argument
Example:
$kill 555
Here, 555 is the PID of the process

15) The history command:


history – Used to display the history of previous executed commands
With no options, display the command history list with line numbers
Example:
$history
1 pwd
2 date
3 cal
4 history

16) The chmod command:


chmod - change file mode bits
The chmod command is used to change permissions of a file after its
creation
Only the Owner or Super User can change file permissions
Syntax:
$chmod assignment-expression filename
Example:
$chmod u+x sample
$ls -l sample
- r w x r - - r - - sample

17) The chown command:


chown - change file owner and group
Only the owner can change the major attributes of a file
Sometimes it is necessary to change the ownership of a file.
Example:
$ls -l sample
-rwxr--r-x 1 dhoni July 19 11:55 sample
$chown virat sample
$ls -l sample
-rwxr--r-x 1 virat July 19 11:55 sample
18) The pwd command: pwd – print name of current/working directory.

This command is used to determine the location of the current directory in


the directory structure
Syntax:
$pwd
Example:
$pwd

19) The cal command:


cal - displays a calendar
This command is used to print the calendar of a specific month or a
specific year
Example:
$cal 03 2018

20) The logout command:


logout - Exit a login shell.
Example:
$logout

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