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Moving, Removing and Creating: PWD Ls

This document provides summaries of Linux commands for moving, removing, and creating files and directories (pwd, ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, mkdir), printing files (a2ps, lp), finding and checking files (find, less, head, tail, grep, diff, man, whatis, history, cal, date, ps), and performing web/network operations (ssh, curl, gzip, gunzip). The commands are organized into sections and include brief descriptions and examples of common usage syntax.

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Moving, Removing and Creating: PWD Ls

This document provides summaries of Linux commands for moving, removing, and creating files and directories (pwd, ls, cd, cp, mv, rm, mkdir), printing files (a2ps, lp), finding and checking files (find, less, head, tail, grep, diff, man, whatis, history, cal, date, ps), and performing web/network operations (ssh, curl, gzip, gunzip). The commands are organized into sections and include brief descriptions and examples of common usage syntax.

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Linux Survival Commands

I Moving, Removing and Creating


I pwd - print working directory
I ls - list files
I $ ls -l long format
I $ ls -a show all hidden files
I cd - change directory
I $ cd go to home directory
I $ cd .. go up one directory
I $ cd adir/bdir go to directory adir/bdir
I cp - copy a file
I $ cp from file to file copy one file into another
I $ cp -r from dir to dir recursively copy one directory into another
I mv - move or rename a file
I $ mv from file to file rename a file, destructive
I rm - remove a file
I $ rm filename removes filename
I mkdir - make a directory
I $ mkdir dirname creates directory dirname
Linux Survival Commands

Printing
I a2ps - pretty print a text file
a2ps highlights keywords, strings, comments and constants have a
different color or font style. If it knows the (programming) language in
which your file is written, it will try to make it look nice on paper.
I $ a2ps file2print default format, 2up, border, headers
I $ a2ps -r --columns=1 -l=132 myfile -P prntrname wide, 132 char width
I $ a2ps file2print -o outfile.ps send output to a file
I $ card file2print -o outfile.ps FIX ME AND POPULATE
I lp - dumb printing
Linux Survival Commands

Finding, Checking
I find - locate a file
I $ find . -name myfile -print
start here, search for ”myfile”
I $ find / -name "*ECE*" -print
start at /, search for files with ”ECE” in them
I $ find /bin -mmin -10 -print
search in /bin for files that changed less than 10 minutes ago
I less - view contents of a text file
I $ less file2read view contents of text file file2read
I head - view first 10 lines of a text file
I $ head -n 20 file2read view first 20 lines of file2read
I tail - view last 10 lines of a text file
I $ tail -n 20 file2read view last 20 lines of file2read
Linux Survival Commands
Finding, Checking (cont.)
I grep - search for a string in a file
I $ grep "literal string" file2examine
search for string ”literal string” in file2examine and print match lines
I $ grep INCLUDE *.c search all .c files for the string INCLUDE
I diff - compare two files and report differences
I $ diff file1 file2 compare two files and report differences
I man - display manual for a command
I $ man command display manual for a command
I whatis - brief description of command
I $ whatis chmod give brief description of chmod command
I history - list previous commands
I $ history give list of previous commands
I cal - print calendar
I $ cal print present month calendar
I $ cal 2013 print year 2013 calendar
I date - print day, date, time, year, timezone
I ps - list process status
I $ ps -ef list all process running on the systemg
I $ ps -u username list all process running owned by username
I $ ps -ef | grep command list all process running ”command”
Linux Survival Commands

Web or Network Operations


I ssh - open secure shell
I $ ssh -l jsmith access.engr.orst.edu login jsmith to access.engr.orst.edu
I $ ssh -Y -l jsmith access.engr.orst.edu login jsmith, X tunneling
enabled
I curl - transfer data with URL syntax
I $ curl http://www.engr.orst.edu/stuff.pdf > mystuff.pdf
get the file stuff.pdf at http://www.engr.orst.edu, save into mystuff.pdf
I $ curl -o mygettext.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html
get gettext.html and save it to mygettext.html
I gzip,gunzip - compress or compress a file
I $ gzip abigfile compress abigfile, output is abigfile.zip
I $ gunzip abigfile decompress abigfile.zip, output is abigfile

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