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Linux Quick Reference
SOME USEFUL COMMANDS
Command Task Command Task

File/Directory Basics lsx comand List files cp Copy files mv Rename files rm Delete files ln Link files cd Change directory pwd Print current directory name mkdir Create directory rmdir Delete directory File Viewing cat less head tail nl od xxd gv xdvi

File Location find Locate files slocate Locate files via index whichLocate commands whereis Locate standard files File Text Manipulation grep Search text for matching lines cut Extract columns paste Append columns tr Translate characters sort Sort lines uniq Locate identical lines tee Copy stdin to a file and to stdout simultaneously File Compression gzip Compress files (GNU Zip) compress Compress files (Unix) bzip2 Compress files (BZip2) zip Compress files(Windows Zip) File Comparison diff Compare files line by line comm Compare sorted files cmp Compare files byte by byte md5sum Compute checksums Disks and Filesystems df Show free disk space mount Make a disk accessible fsck Check a disk for errors sync Flush disk caches Backups and Remote Storage mt Control a tape drive dump Back up a disk restore Restore a dump tar Read/write tape archives cdrecordBurn a CD rsync Mirror a set of files

View files Page through files View file beginning View file ending Number lines View binary data View binary data View Postscript/PDF files View TeX DVI files

File Creation and Editing emacs Text editor vim Text editor umask Set default file protections soffice Edit Word/Excel/ PowerPoint docs abiword Edit Word documents gnumeric Edit Excel documents FileProperties stat Display file attributes wc Count bytes/words/lines du Measure disk usage file Identify file types touch Change file timestamps chown Change file owner chgrp Change file group chmod Change file protections chattr Change advanced file attributes lsattr List advanced file attributes

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Linux Quick Reference
SOME USEFUL COMMANDS
Command Task Command Task Command

Linux Quick Reference
SOME USEFUL COMMANDS
Task Command Task Command

Linux Quick Reference
SOME USEFUL COMMANDS
Task Command Task

File/Directory Basics ls List files cp Copy files mv Rename files rm Delete filesln Link files cd Change directory pwd Print current directory name mkdir Create directory rmdir Delete directory File Viewing cat less head tail nl od xxd gv xdvi

File Location find Locate files slocate Locate files via index which Locate commands whereis Locate standard files File Text Manipulation grep Search text for matching lines cut Extract columns paste Append columns tr Translatecharacters sort Sort lines uniq Locate identical lines tee Copy stdin to a file and to stdout simultaneously File Compression gzip Compress files (GNU Zip) compress Compress files (Unix) bzip2 Compress files (BZip2) zip Compress files (Windows Zip) File Comparison diff Compare files line by line comm Compare sorted files cmp Compare files byte by byte md5sum Compute checksums Disks and Filesystems dfShow free disk space mount Make a disk accessible fsck Check a disk for errors sync Flush disk caches Backups and Remote Storage mt Control a tape drive dump Back up a disk restore Restore a dump tar Read/write tape archives cdrecord Burn a CD rsync Mirror a set of files

File/Directory Basics ls List files cp Copy files mv Rename files rm Delete files ln Link files cd Change directory pwd Printcurrent directory name mkdir Create directory rmdir Delete directory File Viewing cat less head tail nl od xxd gv xdvi

File Location find Locate files slocate Locate files via index which Locate commands whereis Locate standard files File Text Manipulation grep Search text for matching lines cut Extract columns paste Append columns tr Translate characters sort Sort lines uniq Locate identical...