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Operating System Linux Commands

The document lists Linux commands for file management, system information, and process management. It includes commands for listing, copying, moving, deleting, and modifying files, as well as commands for viewing system details like memory, disk, and CPU usage. Process commands allow viewing and killing running processes.

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Operating System Linux Commands

The document lists Linux commands for file management, system information, and process management. It includes commands for listing, copying, moving, deleting, and modifying files, as well as commands for viewing system details like memory, disk, and CPU usage. Process commands allow viewing and killing running processes.

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Operating System

Linux Commands
File commands
1. ls :- Directory listing

2. ls -al :- Formatted listing with hidden files

3. ls -lt :- Sorting the Formatted listing by time modification

4. cd dir :- Change directory to dir

5. cd :- Change to home directory

6. pwd :- Show current working directory

7. mkdir dir :- Creating a directory dir

8. cat >file :- Places the standard input into the file

9. more file :- Output the contents of the file

10. head file :- Output the first 10 lines of the file

11. tail file :- Output the last 10 lines of the file

12. tail -f file :- Output the contents of file as it grows,starting with

the last 10 lines

13. touch file :- Create or update file

14. rm file :- Deleting the file


15. rm -r dir :- Deleting the directory

16. rm -f file :- Force to remove the file

17. rm -rf dir :- Force to remove the directory dir

18. cp file1 file2 :- Copy the contents of file1 to file2

19. cp -r dir1 dir2 :- Copy dir1 to dir2;create dir2 if not present

20. mv file1 file2 :- Rename or move file1 to file2,if file2 is an

existing directory

System Info

21. date :- Show the current date and time

22. cal :- Show this month's calender

23. uptime :- Show current uptime

24. w :- Display who is on line

25. whoami :- Who you are logged in as

26. finger user :- Display information about user

27. uname -a :- Show kernel information

28. cat /proc/cpuinfo :- Cpu information

29. cat proc/meminfo :- Memory information


30. man command :- Show the manual for command

31. df :- Show the disk usage

32. du :- Show directory space usage

33. free :- Show memory and swap usage

34. whereis app :- Show possible locations of app

35. which app :- Show which applications will be run by default

Process management

1. ps :- To display the currently working processes

2. top :- Display all running process

3. kill pid :- Kill the process with given pid

4. killall proc :- Kill all the process named proc

5. pkill pattern :- Will kill all processes matching the pattern

6. bg :- List stopped or background jobs,resume a stopped

job in the background

7. fg :- Brings the most recent job to foreground

8. fg n :- Brings job n to the foreground

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