Linux command reference

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Linux Command Reference is one of the top article written in Techno Explore blog which contains reference to Top Linux Commands. Major Linux Commands such as Network commands, Copy Commands, SSH, Tcpdump and major Linux commands are covered in this Tutorial.

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Unix Shortcuts

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Here are the list of Unix shortcuts. The list consists of shortcuts commonly used in Unix

Ctrl+C – halts the current command
Ctrl+Z – stops the current command, resume with
fg in the foreground or bg in the background
Ctrl+D – log out of current session, similar to exit
Ctrl+W – erases one word in the current line
Ctrl+U – erases the whole line
Ctrl+R – type to bring up a recent command
!! – repeats the last command
exit – log out of current session

Here are the list of other useful information in unix

For Basic commands tutorial. Please refer to Basic commands in unix

For Process Management tutorial. Please refer to Process Management commands in unix

For Setting File permissions please visit the tutorial File Permissions in Unix

To learn how to connect to another host machine using unix. Learn ssh in Unix

To learn basic search in unix visit tutorial searching in Unix

To learn system information commands visit tutorial System Information commands in Unix

To Learn compression in unix, visit the post Compression in unix

Compression in Unix

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Compression in unix is done by using the tar and gzip command. Using these commands we can combine a list of files into tar and compression it using gzip command.

tar command in unix

tar cf file.tar files – create a tar named
file.tar containing files
tar xf file.tar – extract the files from file.tar
tar czf file.tar.gz files – create a tar with
Gzip compression
tar xzf file.tar.gz – extract a tar using Gzip
tar cjf file.tar.bz2 – create a tar with Bzip2
compression
tar xjf file.tar.bz2 – extract a tar using Bzip2

gzip command in unix

gzip file – compresses file and renames it to
file.gz
gzip -d file.gz – decompresses file.gz back to
file

To learn basic search in unix visit tutorial Searching in Unix

To learn system information commands visit tutorial System Information commands in unix

System Information Commands in Unix

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Here are the list of System Information commands in Unix. These are generally used in command prompt

Date command in unix
date – show the current date and time

cal command in unix
cal – show this month’s calendar

uptime command in unix
uptime – show current uptime

to display currently who is logged in
w – display who is online
whoami – who you are logged in as
finger user – display information about user
uname -a – show kernel information

cat command in unix
cat /proc/cpuinfo – cpu information
cat /proc/meminfo – memory information
man command – show the manual for command
df – show disk usage
du – show directory space usage
free – show memory and swap usage
whereis app – show possible locations of app
which app – show which app will be run by default

For Unix Basic commands tutorial. Please refer to Basic commands in Unix

For Unix Process Management tutorial. Please refer to Process Management commands in Unix

For Setting File permissions please visit the tutorial File Permissions in unix

 

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