Linux Essentials Tutorials: Outline to Basic Linux Commands

The Outline for Linux Essentials

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Linux Essentials Tutorials

A Beginner's First 100 Commands

1. exit - logout and close terminal
2. whatis - display one-line manual page descriptions
3. clear - clear the terminal screen
4. man - view the local reference manuals
5. less - view and search text files

6. pwd - print the name of the current directory
7. ls - list files in a directory
8. cd - change the current directory
9. bash - interact with the terminal
10. cat - send input to output

11. type - show a command's type and location
12. alias - customize a command
13. whoami - display the current user's name
14. whereis - locate binaries, manuals and source code
15. date - display or set the system time and date

16. touch - update file timestamps
17. file - display a file's type
18. which - locate commands
19. echo - display text and variables
20. nano - edit text files

21. ln - make file or directory links
22. mkdir - make directories
23. cp - copy files or directories
24. mv move or rename files or directories
25. rm - remove files or directories

26. wc - count lines, words and bytes
27. head - print the first lines of a file
28. tail - print the last lines of a file
29. apropos - search manual titles and descriptions
30. find - search for files within directories

31. sort - sort lines within text files
32. uniq - find repeating consecutive lines
33. cut - select sections from lines of text
34. diff - compare lines of text files
35. comm - simply compare two files

36. sdiff - compare and merge files
37. paste - combine lines from two files
38. join - join lines from two files
39. grep - search for text patterns in a file
40. sed - edit a stream of text

41. calendar - display reminders and calendar updates
42. cal - display a calendar
43. sleep - pause for a specified amount of time
44. crontab - create and schedule automated downloads
45. ps - print a snapshot of current processes

46. printenv - print environment variables
47. export - pass environment variables to other processes
48. set - display or set shell and environment variables
49. unset - remove variables or functions
50. stat - show file or system status

51. df - display file or file system space
52. du - show disk utilization for files and directories
53. free - display memory in system RAM
54. pg - display text page-by-page
55. more - view text files

56. emacs - edit text files
57. vim - edit text files
58. history - review command history
59. kill - send a singal to a process
60. bg - move a process to the background

61. chsh - change login shell programs
62. uname - display system information
63. jobs - show jobs in the terminal
64. dpkg - manage software packages
65. apt-get - manage software packages

66. apt-cache - search for packages and dependencies
67. aptitude - manage software packages
68. gzip - compress and decompress files
69. gunzip - decompress files
70. bzip2 - compress and decompress files

71. xz - compress and decompress files
72. zip - compress and archive files
73. tar -archive files and directories
74. rsync - synchronize file systems
75. chmod - change file permissions

76. chown - change file owner and group
77. id - show user and group information
78. su - temporarily substitute users
79. sudo - run a command as superuser
80. passwd - change user passwords

81. adduser - add users and groups
82. ping - send data packets to hosts
83. tracroute - show the route to hosts
84. ftp - automate the transfer of files
85. wget - download files non-interactively

86. ssh - remotely access a server
87. source - read and execute commands from a file
88. time - show command execution time
89. read - take input from a keyboard or file
90. xargs - build and execute commands

91. tee - route to both standard output and a file
92. printf - create formatted output
93. test - evaluate an expression
94. if - build a branch in a script
95. function - create a script within a script

96. while - create a program loop
97. case - build a program menu
98. for - create a program loop
99. until - create a program loop
100. fold - wrap text to a specified width

Quizzes
1. Quiz 1a - Quiz on commands 1 - 20
2. Quiz 1b - Quiz on commands 1 - 20
3. Quiz 1c - Quiz on commands 1 - 20
4. Quiz 1d - Quiz on commands 1 - 20

5. Quiz 2a - Quiz on commands 21 - 40
6. Quiz 2b - Quiz on commands 21 - 40
7. Quiz 2c - Quiz on commands 21 - 40
8. Quiz 2d - Quiz on commands 21 - 40

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Linux Essentials Tutorials: Outline to a Beginner's First 100 Commands

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