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Shell
/
terminal
: Configure the OS from a command line.
Yellowdog Updater
(YUM): Open-source CLI for downloading packages in Debian-based OS.
Samba
allows Unix-like OS to provide
file
and
print
services to Windows clients.
man
: display help for
commands.
Ls
: list files in a directory.
Mv
: move or rename a file.
Cp
: copy a file.
Rm
: remove a file.
Mkdir
: create a new folder.
Df
: display free storage space.
Ps
: display a list of
running
processes.
Apt-get
remove
uninstalls an application.
Advance
Packaging
Tool
is a CLI utility to install, uninstall and upgrade applications in Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu.
Apt-get
upgrade installs the
latest
version of installed applications. (Red-hat distros)
dd
is used to copy a partition.
Apt-get
install: installs a new application.
Chown
is used to change the owner and group of a file.
sudo
: temporarily grants administrator powers to allow the execution of a single Linux command requiring root access permission.
Chmod
is used to change the
permissions
of a
file
or
folder.
Apt-get
update
: updates the version list of installed applications.
Read/Write/Execute are different
permissions
grantable to a
user
or a
group.
Top
: displays running processes and resource usage. (task manager)
Find
: search for files and directories.
Grep
: search with regular
expressions.
Dig
: Displays DNS information (troubleshooting command).
Cat
: display the contents of a file.
Nano
: text
editor.
Pwd
: Check current
working
directory.
Ip
: displays and configure a
NIC.
df
: Display available space in the disk
su
do: elevates the user's privileges to root.