Difference between revisions of "BasicLinuxCommands"

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

• List Files

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))

• Concatenate Files

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)

• Directory Commands

mkdir dir_name #(make a directory called dir_name)
rmdir dir_name #(remove directory dir_name. dir_name must be empty)

• Remove Files

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

• Copy Files/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)

• Print Directory

pwd #(print name of current working directory)