Linux Basic Commands
Linux Basic Commands
COMMANDS
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BY – PANTHERETHICS
COMMAND LIST
SYSTEM
• w => to know how is online
• cal => show calander
• whoami => to know login type
• hostname –i => to know system host ip
• hostname => to know host name
• date => show current date
• uname –a => system info
• uptime => how long system has been running
• uname –r => to know kernel information
• last reboot => show sys reboot history
• finger user => user info
COMMAND LIST
PROCESS RELATED
• ps => show currently active process
• ps aux | grep ‘telnet’ => find all process id related to telnet
• top => show all running process
• bg => resumes suspended jobs without bringing them to foreground
• pmap => memory map of process
• kill pid => kill process with mentioned pid id
• killall proc => kill all process named proc
• fg => brings the most recent job to foreground
• ctrl + z => to stop any process
• fg n => Brings job n to the foreground
• pkill process-name => sendsignal to a process with its name
COMMAND LIST
DIRECTORY
• cd .. => to go back from any directory
• cd /test => change to /test directory
• cd => go to shome directory
COMMANDS LIST
HARDWARE
• dmesg => Detected hardware and boot messages
• cat /proc/cpuinfo => cpu model info
• badblocks –s /dev/sda => Test for unreadable blocks on disk sda
• hdparm –tT /dev/sda =>Do a read speed test on disk sda
• dmidecode => show hardware info from the Bios
• lsusb –Tv => show usb devices
• hdparm –i /dev/sda => show info about disk sda
• lspci –tv => Show PCI devices
• free –m => Used and free memory (-m for MB)
• lsblk => Displays block device related information in
Linux
• lshw => Displays information On hardware configuration
of the system
• cat /proc/meminfo => Hardware memory
• cat /proc/interrupts => lists the number of interrupts per
cpu per i/o device
COMMAND LIST
USERS