Linux commands

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Table of contents

1 I need help 2 Files and Folders 2.1 Listing Files 2.2 Creating Files and Directories 2.3 Moving and Copying Files 2.4 Looking In and For Files 2.5 Tape Archive files 2.6 Compressing files 2.7 Permissions 3 More commands 3.1 Useful commands 3.2 Process Information 3.3 System information 3.4 Connecting commands 3.5 Connecting to other machines 3.6 Other unix tools 3.7 Shell programming

I need help

man, whatis and info

Files and Folders

Listing Files

ls

cd and pwd

Creating Files and Directories

mkdir and touch

Moving and Copying Files

mv and cp

rm and rmdir

Looking In and For Files

cat, more, less, locate

Tape Archive files

Files With .tar Extensions

Compressing files

Files With .gz Extensions

Files With .bz2 Extensions

Permissions

File/Directory Permissions

chmod

More commands

Useful commands

head and tail

Process Information

ps and top

kill and htop

System information

du, df and free

Connecting commands

piping and redirection

Connecting to other machines

ssh, ftp, wget

Other unix tools

find

sed

grep

awk

Shell programming

loops and variables