Unix Commands

Unix commands

Unix commands by function

unix text editors

unix job and command scheduling

unix text file manipulation

cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
more and less
head and tail
awk - text processing and data extraction

unix file manipulation commands

ls - list directory contents
ln
- what is ln?
cp - copy files and directories
rm - remove files or directories
mv - move (rename) files
chmod - change access mode for files and directories
chown - change file owner and group
working with directories in unix
mkdir - make directories
rmdir
filesystem navigation commands in unix
ls
pwd
cd

unix filesystem operation commands

df
du

unix commands for effective shell scripting

unix user management

unix system monitoring

unix process management

ps
top (also check out htop)
htop
kill

unix printing

unix file compression

networking commands

ifconfig
ifconfig not found in debian
ifconfig command not found
ip
ping
netstat
nslookup – query domain names and IP addresses
5 ways to use nslookup

Remote Access Commands

ssh

File Transfer Commands

curl - submit HTTP requests and download files
wget
scp

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