Shell Commands

I - since I spent the time to create this website - am a computer geek. And most computer geeks use the Terminal to customize their machine. So I figured I would share some simple commands with you guys. (There is a default file in your home section, but I’m adding more to it).

ls (list contents)

• -l in rows
• -t chronologically

cd (change directory)

cat (view file)

mv (rename or move file)

• to rename (mv oldname.txt newname.txt)

locate/find (locate/find files)

• if you add -i, it will be more likely to work even if you don’t remember the name exactly

grep (lets you search for a certain word in a text file)

• grep blue notebook.txt is an example

df (reports disk usage in percentage and KB)

• df -m to see in MB

head (shows first lines of text file)

• default is first ten lines, but you can do head -n notebook.txt

tail (same as end, but shows last lines)

diff (compares file contents, and shows differences in columns)

• diff file1.ext file2.ext

chmod (changes read/write/execute permissions of files/directories)

• more info to execute properly, see https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/linux-commands

chown (give certain file/directory to different user)

• chown linuxuser2 file.ext

jobs (display all current jobs and statuses (tasks))