Linux Commands Chetsheet

Opening Terminal

• Right click and select Open in Terminal
• Use Ctrl + Alt + T
• Search Terminal in Application and open

Basic Linux Commands

Navigating commands

• pwd -> Prints the path of present working directory
• ls -> Lists the components in directory
• ls -a -> Lists all the components in directory including hidden files
• ls -l -> Lists all the components in directory with permissions and other details
• cd -> Changed directory to root
• cd .. -> Changes directory to parent directory
• cd /path/ -> Changes the directory to ./path/ , where . is the parent directory to path

Manipulating files and directory command

• mkdir <name> -> Makes empty directory
• mkdir -p <parent>/<child> -> Makes a directory inside directory by creating directory if it does not exist
• rmdir <name> -> Removes empty directory
• touch <filename> -> Creates a file
• rm <file> -> Removes a file
• rm -r <directory> -> Deletes non empty directory along with it's files and sub-directories
• cp <source> <destination> -> Copies source file to it's destination
• mv <source> <destination> -> Moves source file to it's destination
• xdg-open <file/directory> -> Opens the file/directory in it's default application
• grep <"keyword"> <filename> -> Gives the line in the file, that has the following keyword

Additional commands

• echo <text> -> Prints text in shell
• cat <text file> -> Prints the content of text file in shell
• history -> Shows the history of commands used
• history -d <line> -> Deletes the command of line number from history
• tree -> Displays the directory/sub-directory structure from parent in form of tree
• man <command> -> Displays manual of the command

Authors

• Aadarsha Dhakal
• Ayush Paudel

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