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Essential Linux Commands with Examples

This document provides a list of basic Linux commands along with brief descriptions and examples to demonstrate how each command works. It begins with an introduction stating that the list is not exhaustive but should serve as a good starting point for beginners and intermediate Linux users. The bulk of the document is an alphabetized list of Linux commands like alias, apropos, at, bc, cal, cat and others along with short explanations of what each command does.

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Essential Linux Commands with Examples

This document provides a list of basic Linux commands along with brief descriptions and examples to demonstrate how each command works. It begins with an introduction stating that the list is not exhaustive but should serve as a good starting point for beginners and intermediate Linux users. The bulk of the document is an alphabetized list of Linux commands like alias, apropos, at, bc, cal, cat and others along with short explanations of what each command does.

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Linux Commands

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Here is a list of basic linux commands. This list of linux commands is not complete as there are
many more linux commands available. However, it should make a good start for a beginner or
intermediate linux administrator / linux user. All linux commands in this list include examples to
demonstrate how the actual linux command works. If you do not find an answer to your question
on this page or you need extra help, feel free to ask us on our new Linux Forum. We will be more
than happy to help you with your Linux questions there.

1. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S
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alias - create names or abbreviations for commands


apropos - search the manual page names and descriptions

at [man page] - queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution

bc [man page] - An arbitrary precision calculator language

cal - displays a calendar


cat [man page] - concatenate files and print on the standard output

cd - change directory

chgrp [man page] - change group ownership

chmod [man page] - change file access permissions

cksum [man page] - checksum and count the bytes in a file

cp [man page] - copy files and directories

csplit [man page] - split a file into sections determined by context lines

date [man page] - print or set the system date and time
dd [man page] - convert and copy a file

du [man page] - estimate file space usage

egrep [man page] - print lines matching a pattern


export - set an environment variable

fgrep [man page] - print lines matching a pattern


find [man page] - search for files in a directory hierarchy

fold [man page] - wrap each input line to fit in specified width

grep [man page] - print lines matching a pattern

head [man page] - output the first part of files

join [man page] - join lines of two files on a common field

logrotate [man page] - rotates, compresses, and mails system logs


ls [man page] - list directory contents

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mkdir [man page] - make directories


mv [man page] - move (rename) files

mount [man page] - mount a file system

nl [man page] - number lines of files

od [man page] - dump files in octal and other formats

pwd [man page] - print name of current/working directory

rgrep [man page] - print lines matching a pattern


rm [man page] - remove files or directories

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scp - secure copy (remote file copy program)


ssh - OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program)

tail [man page] - output the last part of files


tar [man page] - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility

tee [man page] - read from standard input and write to standard output and files

time [man page] - run programs and summarize system resource usage

touch [man page] - change file timestamps

vim - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor

watch [man page] - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen


wc [man page] - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

whoami [man page] - print effective userid

yes [man page] - output a string repeatedly until killed

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