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 file3 ... (cat also works for multiple files)

• 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)