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

unix filesystem operation commands

unix commands for effective shell scripting

unix user management

unix system monitoring

unix process management

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

File Transfer Commands

  • curl - submit HTTP requests and download files
  • wget
  • scp

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