Linux Commands – Beginner Complete List A to Z Index. There are so many linux commands and in this section you will see Linux command for a beginner or intermediate linux administrator even linux user. List of Linux commands here demonstrate how the actual linux command works.
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| Linux Commands – Beginner Complete List A to Z Index |
A
alias – create names or abbreviations for commands
apropos – search the manual page names and descriptions
at – queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution
B
bc – An arbitrary precision calculator language
C
cal – displays a calendar
cat – concatenate files and print on the standard output
cd – change directory
chgrp – change group ownership
chmod – change file access permissions
cksum – checksum and count the bytes in a file
cp – copy files and directories
csplit – split a file into sections determined by context lines
D
date – print or set the system date and time
dd – convert and copy a file
du – estimate file space usage
E
egrep – print lines matching a pattern
export – set an environment variable
F
fgrep – print lines matching a pattern
find – search for files in a directory hierarchy
fold – wrap each input line to fit in specified width
G
grep – print lines matching a pattern
H
head – output the first part of files
I
J
join – join lines of two files on a common field
K
L
logrotate – rotates, compresses, and mails system logs
ls – list directory contents
M
mkdir – make directories
mv – move (rename) files
mount – mount a file system
N
nl – number lines of files
O
od – dump files in octal and other formats
P
pwd – print name of current/working directory
Q
R
rgrep – print lines matching a pattern
rm – remove files or directories
S
scp – secure copy (remote file copy program)
ssh – OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program)
T
tail – output the last part of files
tar – The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
tee – read from standard input and write to standard output and files
time – run programs and summarize system resource usage
touch – change file timestamps
V
vim – Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
W
watch – execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
wc – print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
whoami – print effective userid
X
Y
yes – output a string repeatedly until killed
Z
