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Linux Top Usage Commands For Linux Administrator

Linux top usage commands for Linux Administrator

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Sure! Here are the top 100 Linux commands for administrators, along with their usage
and examples:

File and Directory Management

1. ls: Lists files and directories.


ls -l

2. cd: Changes the current directory.


cd /path/to/directory

3. pwd: Prints the current working directory.


pwd

4. cp: Copies files or directories.


cp source_file destination_file

5. mv: Moves or renames files or directories.


mv old_name new_name

6. rm: Removes files or directories.


rm file_name

7. mkdir: Creates a new directory.


mkdir new_directory

8. rmdir: Removes an empty directory.


rmdir directory_name

9. touch: Creates an empty file or updates the timestamp of an existing file.


touch file_name

10. find: Searches for files and directories.


find /path -name "file_name"

File Permissions and Ownership

1. chmod: Changes file permissions.


chmod 755 file_name

2. chown: Changes file owner and group.


chown user:group file_name

3. chgrp: Changes group ownership.


chgrp group_name file_name

System Information
1. uname: Displays system information.
uname -a

2. top: Displays real-time system information and processes.


top

3. htop: An interactive process viewer.


htop

4. df: Reports file system disk space usage.


df -h

5. du: Estimates file space usage.


du -sh /path/to/directory

6. free: Displays memory usage.


free -m

7. uptime: Shows how long the system has been running.


uptime

Network Management

1. ifconfig: Configures network interfaces.


ifconfig

2. ip: Shows/manages routing, devices, policy routing, and tunnels.


ip addr show

3. ping: Checks network connectivity.


ping google.com

4. netstat:
Displays network connections, routing tables, interface statistics,
masquerade connections, and multicast memberships.
netstat -tuln

5. ss: Another utility to investigate sockets.


ss -tuln

6. traceroute: Traces the route packets take to a network host.


traceroute google.com

7. nslookup: Queries DNS to obtain domain name or IP address mapping.


nslookup google.com

8. dig: Another DNS query tool.


dig google.com

9. wget: Downloads files from the web.


wget http://example.com/file
10. curl: Transfers data from or to a server.
curl http://example.com

User Management

1. useradd: Adds a new user.


useradd username

2. usermod: Modifies a user account.


usermod -aG groupname username

3. userdel: Deletes a user account.


userdel username

4. passwd: Changes a user’s password.


passwd username

5. groupadd: Adds a new group.


groupadd groupname

6. groupdel: Deletes a group.


groupdel groupname

7. groups: Shows the groups a user is a member of.


groups username

Process Management

1. ps: Reports a snapshot of current processes.


ps aux

2. kill: Sends a signal to a process.


kill PID

3. killall: Kills processes by name.


killall process_name

4. pkill: Sends a signal to processes based on name and other attributes.


pkill process_name

5. bg: Resumes suspended jobs in the background.


bg job_id

6. fg: Brings a background job to the foreground.


fg job_id

7. jobs: Lists active jobs.


jobs

Disk Management
1. fdisk: Manipulates disk partition table.
fdisk /dev/sda

2. mkfs: Builds a Linux file system.


mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

3. mount: Mounts a file system.


mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

4. umount: Unmounts a file system.


umount /mnt

5. fsck: Checks and repairs a Linux file system.


fsck /dev/sda1

6. blkid: Finds or displays block device attributes.


blkid

Package Management

1. apt-get: APT package handling utility (Debian-based).


apt-get update

2. yum: Package manager for RPM-based distributions.


yum install package_name

3. dnf: Next-generation package manager for RPM-based distributions.


dnf install package_name

4. rpm: RPM package manager.


rpm -ivh package_name.rpm

5. dpkg: Debian package manager.


dpkg -i package_name.deb

System Monitoring

1. vmstat: Reports virtual memory statistics.


vmstat

2. iostat: Reports CPU and I/O statistics.


iostat

3. sar: Collects, reports, or saves system activity information.


sar -u 1 3

4. dstat: Versatile resource statistics.


dstat

5. glances: Cross-platform monitoring tool.


glances

Log Management

1. tail: Outputs the last part of files.


tail -f /var/log/syslog

2. head: Outputs the first part of files.


head -n 20 file_name

3. less: Views file contents one screen at a time.


less file_name

4. more: Views file contents one screen at a time.


more file_name

5. cat: Concatenates and displays file contents.


cat file_name

6. logrotate: Rotates, compresses, and mails system logs.


logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

Compression and Archiving

1. tar: Archives files.


tar -cvf archive_name.tar directory_name

2. gzip: Compresses files.


gzip file_name

3. gunzip: Decompresses files.


gunzip file_name.gz

4. zip: Packages and compress

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