Here are some basic Linux commands. Some are well known and some aren’t. I am not a Linux Wizard…far from it…but I am learning some basic linux commands and thought I would share some with other newbies so they to can get more familiar with the terminal command line.
xkill Kills a running program
exit Exits the terminal
reboot Reboots the system
halt Shutsdown the computer
startx Starts xwindows from terminal
man man(command) shows help files
info info(command) shows help files
–help (command)–help shows help files
su Allow you to login as Super User
ls “Lists” the contents of the directory
pwd Displays “present working directory”
cd cd (name) change directory TO:(name)
mkdir mkdir (name) Makes new directory
rmdir rmdir (name) Removes directory
clear Clears the terminal window
date Displays current date and time
cal Displays a calander
uptime Displays time since last reboot
df Displays the disk usage on partitions
du Displays disk usage of directory
id Displays your identification to system
groups Displays groups of current user
ulimit -a Displays users limits
uname Displays name of machine logged into
who Displays “who” is logged on the system
w Similar to “who”
wall Sends message to all logged in users
top Displays cpu processes memory etc
ps Displays current running processes
June 18th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Well definitely it is useful for begginners in linux