This list of Linux commands should provide you with a more comprehensive understanding of the tools available for various tasks in the Linux environment.
- Ping Host
- Get whois for domain
- Get DNS for domain
- Reserve loockup host
- Outputs the webpage from url
- Connect at host as user
- Display network interfaces and their configuration
- Display active network connections
- Download a file from the internet
- Transfer files via FTP
- List files and directories
- Create a new directory
- Remove a directory
- Copy a file
- Move a file
- Delete a file
- Display the contents of a file
- Display system information
- Check disk usage
- Check memory usage
- Display running processes
- Show the history of commands
- Compress a file using gzip
- Decompress a gzip file
- Create a tarball archive
- Extract a tarball archive
- Change the current directory
- Go to the users home directory
- Go back to the previous directory
- List files and directories with details
- List all files including hidden files
- Display the first few lines of a file
- Display the last few lines of a file
- Sort lines of a text file
- Count words, lines, and characters in a file
- Replace text in a file
- Shutdown the system
- Reboot the system
- Display disk usage by directory
- Display the current date and time
- Display the systems uptime
- Change the owner of a file or directory
- Change the group ownership of a file or directory
- Schedule a command to run at a specific time using at
- Schedule a recurring command using cron
- View system logs
- Display the list of installed packages
- Install a package using apt-get
- Update the package list
- Upgrade installed packages
- Remove a package
ping example.com whois example.com dig example.com dig -x 192.168.1.1 curl example.com ssh user@example.com ifconfig netstat wget http://example.com/file_name ftp ftp.example.com chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/example.com chmod 755 /path/to/directory ls mkdir new_directory rmdir directory_name cp source_file destination mv source_file destination rm file_name cat file_name adduser new_username deluser username passwd username uname -a df -h free -h top history gzip file_name gunzip file_name.gz tar -cvzf archive_name.tar.gz directory_name tar -xvzf archive_name.tar.gz cd /path/to/directory cd ~ cd - ls -l List all files including hidden files
ls -a find /path/to/start -name "file_name" grep "search_text" /path/to/files/* head file_name tail file_name sort file_name wc file_name sed 's/old_text/new_text/g' input_file > output_file shutdown -h now reboot du -sh /path/to/directory date uptime chown new_owner /path/to/file_or_directory chgrp new_group /path/to/file_or_directory echo "command" | at 3:00pm crontab -e less /var/log/syslog dpkg --list sudo apt-get install package_name sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get remove package_name Generate a new SSH key pair (using RSA with 4096 bits)
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com" cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub sudo update-alternatives --config php This repository is unlicense[d], so feel free to fork.