Difference between revisions of "BasicLinuxCommands"

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)