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Linux Command Line version 1.4
Last modified date: 2008-11-15
Created Date: 2008-01-06

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cd /home

enter to directory '/ home'

cd ..

go back one level

cd ../..

go back two levels

cd	go to home directory

cd ~user1

go to home directory

cd -	go to previous directory

cp file1 file2

copying a file

cp dir/* .

copy all files of a directory within the current work directory

cp -a /tmp/dir1 .

copy a directory within the current work directory

cp -a dir1 dir2

copy a directory

cp file file1

outputs the mime type of the file as text

iconv -l

lists known encodings

iconv -f fromEncoding -t toEncoding inputFile > outputFile

converting the coding of characters from one format to another

find . -maxdepth 1 -name *.jpg -print -exec convert

batch resize files in the current directory and send them to a thumbnails directory (requires convert from Imagemagick)

ln -s file1 lnk1

create a symbolic link to file or directory

ln file1 lnk1

create a physical link to file or directory

ls	view files of directory

ls -F

view files of directory

ls -l

show details of files and directory

ls -a

show hidden files

ls *[0-9]*

show files and directory containing numbers

lstree

show files and directories in a tree starting from root(2)

mkdir dir1

create a directory called 'dir1'

mkdir dir1 dir2

create two directories simultaneously

mkdir -p /tmp/dir1/dir2

create a directory tree

mv dir1 new_dir

rename / move a file or directory

pwd	show the path of work directory

rm -f file1

delete file called 'file1'

rm -rf dir1

remove a directory called 'dir1' and contents recursively

rm -rf dir1 dir2

remove two directories and their contents recursively

rmdir dir1

delete directory called 'dir1'

touch -t 0712250000 file1

modify timestamp of a file or directory - (YYMMDDhhmm)

tree	show files and directories in a tree starting from root(1)

Commands by Argument

System information - Shutdown, Restart and Logout of a system - Files and Directory - File search - Mounting a Filesystem - Disk Space - Users and Groups - Permits on Files - Special Attributes on files - Archives and compressed files - RPM Packages ( Fedora, Red Hat and like) - YUM packages tool (Fedora, RedHat and alike) - DEB packages (Debian, Ubuntu and like) - APT packages tool (Debian, Ubuntu and alike) - View file content - Text Manipulation - Character set and Format file conversion - Filesystem Analysis - Format a Filesystem - Filesystem SWAP - Backup - CDROM - Networking (LAN / WiFi) - Microsoft Windows networks (samba) - IPTABLES (firewall) - Monitoring and debugging - Others useful commands - Pacman packages tool (Arch, Frugalware and alike) -

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