Linux Commands
$ whoami : It will display currently logged in username
$ pwd : present working directory
$ date : To display current date
$ cal : To display calendar
touch : it is used to create empty file
To display files, we will use 'ls' command
To create a file with data we will use 'cat' command
To create directory we will use 'mkdir' command
To remove the file we will use 'rm' command
To remove empty directory we will use 'rmdir' command
'ls' is used to list out all files & directories available in the given directoryNote:
we can pass several options for 'ls' commands
ls : It will display all files in alphabetical order (a to z)
ls -r : It will display all files in reverse of alphabetical order (z to a)
ls -l : It will display long listing of files
(Self Explore more options with ls)
To delete a file we will use 'rm' command
To delete empty directory we will use 'rmdir' command
To delete non-empty directory we will use 'rm' command
To display file content we will use 'cat' command
To display file content with line numbers we will use '-n' option with cat.
Copy one file data into another file using 'cat' command
Self Explore following
Tac
Head , Tail (with options)
Rev
Cp
Mv
Grep
Find
Locate
Working with Text Editors in Linux
The default editor that comes with the LNIX operating system is called vi (visual editor).
Using vi editor, we can edit an existing file or we create a new file from scratch
There are three modes of operations in vi:
1) command mode
2) insert mode
3) escape mode
Linux File permissions:
=> In Linux everything will be represented as a file
=> To protect our data, we need to manage file permissions
=> We have 3 types of permissions for the files in
linuxr ===> read
w ===> write
x ===> execute
=> Linux file permissions are divided into 3 sections
Owner , Group and Permission.
To change file permissions, we will use 'chmod' command
$ chmod u+x [Link]
Self Explore (Number System) to modify the File Permissions
