Useful Commands

Useful Commands

Useful Commands

by Badhan Shaha -
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1. What is Command?

A command is a directive to a computer program to perform a specific task


2. Why we use command?

Using a command line, you can perform almost all the same tasks that can be done with a GUI.


3. How can we find detail information of any command?

man "command_name"


Explanation: UNIX provides us with a facility of man command, which is used for getting documentation of any command.


*** list of essential "file" commands ***


mkdir - to create any folder


rmdir - to delete any folder


rm -r - to delete any folder if their is any file under in it


cp - to copy any file from one to another path


mv - to move any file from one to another path


echo - to print something


gzip - convert any file to zip


gunzip - convert any zip file to its usual format


touch - to create any file with any extension like .txt etc.


nano - to open a text editor to edit the text under the file


cat - to show the text under the file into the terminal


cat>> - to append two files text/data into one


ls -l - to check the permission of files under the pwd


chmod - to change the mode of any files like read , write or execute .