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Ali Aslam at 04:15, 28 October 2008

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Athar Hameed at 05:15, 15 August 2007

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Athar Hameed at 05:08, 15 August 2007

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Arif Iqbal at 04:56, 15 August 2007

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Arif Iqbal: format changes

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format changes

Athar Hameed at 10:12, 14 August 2007

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Athar Hameed: New page: There are some of the basic shell commands that you will need. * ls (list directory contents) ls -l (verbose directory listing) ls -ltrh (verbose directory listing, sorted in revers...

2007-08-14T10:12:21Z

New page: There are some of the basic shell commands that you will need. * ls (list directory contents) ** ls -l (verbose directory listing) ** ls -ltrh (verbose directory listing, sorted in revers...

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There are some of the basic shell commands that you will need.

* ls (list directory contents)
** ls -l (verbose directory listing)
** ls -ltrh (verbose directory listing, sorted in reverse order (r) according to time (t), file sizes displayed in human-readable format (h))
**

* cat (concatenate files and print on standard output)
** cat file_name (view the contents of file_name)
** cat file1 file2 ... (concatenate file1 and file2 and print on standard output)

* mkdir dir_name (make a directory called dir_name)

* rmdir dir_name (remove directory dir_name. dir_name must be empty)

* rm file_name (remove (delete) file_name)
** rm -f file_name (force delete file_name)
** rm -rf * (force delete all files and directories)

* cp file_name copy_file_name (copies file_name to copy_file_name)
** cp -R * dest (copies all files and directories in the current working directory to a destination directory)

* pwd (print name of current working directory)

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-There are some of the basic shell commands that you will need.
+There are some of the basic shell commands that you will need. You can type in the following command to see detailed documentation for any command.
-* List Files
+<pre>
 <pre>
 ls (list directory contents)
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 </pre>
-* Concatenate Files
+* Create/remove directory.
 <pre>
-cat (concatenate files and print on standard output)
+mkdir dir_name (make a directory called dir_name)
-cat file_name (view the contents of file_name)
+rmdir dir_name (remove directory dir_name. dir_name must be empty)
 </pre>
-* Directory Commands
+* Copy/move files and directories.
 <pre>
-mkdir dir_name (make a directory called dir_name)
+cp file_name copy_file_name (copies file_name to copy_file_name)
-rmdir dir_name (remove directory dir_name. dir_name must be empty)
+mv file_name new_file_name (moves file_name to new_file_name)
 </pre>
-* Remove Files
+* Delete files and directories.
 <pre>
 rm file_name (remove (delete) file_name)
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 </pre>
-* Copy Files/Directories
+* Dump file contents on screen. Actually concatenates files and print on standard output.
 <pre>
-cp file_name copy_file_name (copies file_name to copy_file_name)
+cat file_name (view the contents of file_name)
-cp -R * dest (copies all files and directories in the current working directory to a destination directory)
+cat file1 file2 file3 ... (cat also works for multiple files)
 </pre>
-* Print Directory
+* Find out current working directory
 <pre>
 pwd (print name of current working directory)
 </pre>

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 * List Files
- ls #(list directory contents)
+<pre>
- ls -l #(verbose directory listing)
+ls (list directory contents)
- ls -ltrh #(verbose directory listing, sorted in reverse order (r) according to time (t), file sizes displayed in human-readable format (h))
+ls -l (verbose directory listing)
 * Concatenate Files
- cat (concatenate files and print on standard output)
+<pre>
- cat file_name #(view the contents of file_name)
+cat (concatenate files and print on standard output)
- cat file1 file2 #... (concatenate file1 and file2 and print on standard output)
+cat file_name (view the contents of file_name)
 * Directory Commands
- mkdir dir_name #(make a directory called dir_name)
+<pre>
- rmdir dir_name #(remove directory dir_name. dir_name must be empty)
+mkdir dir_name (make a directory called dir_name)
 * Remove Files
- rm file_name #(remove (delete) file_name)
+<pre>
- rm -f file_name #(force delete file_name)
+rm file_name (remove (delete) file_name)
- rm -rf * #(force delete all files and directories)
+rm -f file_name (force delete file_name)
 * Copy Files/Directories
- cp file_name copy_file_name #(copies file_name to copy_file_name)
+<pre>
- cp -R * dest #(copies all files and directories in the current working directory to a destination directory)
+cp file_name copy_file_name (copies file_name to copy_file_name)
 * Print Directory
- pwd #(print name of current working directory)
+<pre>

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 * ls (list directory contents)
-** ls -l (verbose directory listing)
+ ls -l (verbose directory listing)
-** ls -ltrh (verbose directory listing, sorted in reverse order (r) according to time (t), file sizes displayed in human-readable format (h))
+ ls -ltrh (verbose directory listing, sorted in reverse order (r) according to time (t), file sizes displayed in human-readable format (h))
 * cat (concatenate files and print on standard output)
-** cat file_name (view the contents of file_name)
+ cat file_name (view the contents of file_name)
-** cat file1 file2 ... (concatenate file1 and file2 and print on standard output)
+ cat file1 file2 ... (concatenate file1 and file2 and print on standard output)
 * mkdir dir_name (make a directory called dir_name)
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 * rm file_name (remove (delete) file_name)
-** rm -f file_name (force delete file_name)
+ rm -f file_name (force delete file_name)
-** rm -rf * (force delete all files and directories)
+ rm -rf * (force delete all files and directories)
 * cp file_name copy_file_name (copies file_name to copy_file_name)
-** cp -R * dest (copies all files and directories in the current working directory to a destination directory)
+ cp -R * dest (copies all files and directories in the current working directory to a destination directory)
 * pwd (print name of current working directory)