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Simple Linux Commands I

The document lists and describes basic Linux commands including man for displaying manual pages, pwd to print the current working directory, sudo to run a command as the superuser after authentication, cd to change the shell's working directory, ls to list information about files, and su to run a shell with substitute user and group IDs. It explains that man only looks in the specified manual section, pwd prints the full path of the current directory, and sudo will invoke the requested command if the configuration permits after authentication.

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Simple Linux Commands I

The document lists and describes basic Linux commands including man for displaying manual pages, pwd to print the current working directory, sudo to run a command as the superuser after authentication, cd to change the shell's working directory, ls to list information about files, and su to run a shell with substitute user and group IDs. It explains that man only looks in the specified manual section, pwd prints the full path of the current directory, and sudo will invoke the requested command if the configuration permits after authentication.

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Simple Linux Commands I

Commands man pwd What does it stand for? Format and display the on-line manual pages Print name of current/working directory Super user do When do you use it? If you specific section man only looks in that section of the manual Print de full filename of the current working directory
After authentication, and if the configuration file permits the user access, then the system will invoke the requested command

sudo

cd

Change the shell working directory

Change the shell working directory. Change the current directory to DIR. The default DIR is the value of the HOME shell variable. List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort. Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.

ls run a shell with substitute user and group IDs

su

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