Thread by @MohitSehgl

Hi Devs,
Do you want to learn most important Linux commands as a beginner.

Here is a thread for you
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pwd - Prints Present working directory on screen

cd - stands for change directory, helps you to switch the current directory

Example in the image

ls - lists files and directories inside the given directory (it will list contents of current directory if you don't provide 1

cat - used to list the contents of a file on the standard output

cp - it is used to copy the file or director from one location to another

mv - command can be used to move(cut and paste) the files or to rename the files

mkdir - mkdir command creates a new directory

rmdir - removes existing and empty directory ( check next command to remove non-empty dir)

rm - removes existing file

Will keep on adding more to this thread.

touch - The touch command allows you to create a blank new file through the Linux command line

grep - The grep filter searches a file for a particular pattern of characters, and displays all lines that contain that pattern. It uses regex. Example in Image

sudo - this command enables you to perform tasks that require administrative or root permissions.

It generally used as a prefix of some command that only superuser are allowed to run.

df - command to get a report on the system’s disk space usage, shown in percentage and KBs

head - The head command is used to view the first lines of any text file. By default, it will show the first ten lines

tail - this helps you to print last few lines of any file on the standard output.

tar - command is the most used command to archive multiple files into an archive (tarball)

Check this link for examples
tecmint.com/18-tar-command…

chmod - used to change the read, write, and execute permissions of files and directories

chown command enables you to change or transfer the ownership of a file to the specified username

kill - helps to terminate any process.

ping - PING (Packet Internet Groper) command is used to check the network connectivity between host and server

Read the following article for more
geeksforgeeks.org/ping-command-i…

wget - you can even download files from the internet with the help of the wget command. To do so, simply type wget followed by the download link.

Here are few commands to learn

* top
* history
* man
* echo
* zip
* unzip

Let me know what you want to learn in next thread.

Keep rocking
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