Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Some Linux Command that I found useful



Here are some linux command I found useful in my day to day work.
This is not a full list of LINUX commands. recently started working with LINUX. So this is a set of simple commands I found useful.


  • whatis

    It provides very brief descriptions of command line programs and other topics related to Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.whatis searches a set of database files containing short descriptions of system commands for keywords and displays the result
    whatis head
    whatis head tail
    
  • source

    source is a bash shell built-in command that executes the content of the file passed as argument, in the current shell. It has a synonym in '.' (period).
    source .cshrc
    
  • ls -la ~/ | more

    Find hidden files on a directory
  • Move files from one place to another

    mv /home/jack/testfile /home/jack/testfile2
    mv testfile testfile2
    mv /home/jack/testfile /home/jack/Documents/
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