Shell Commands

Shell Commands

These generally apply to all Linux / Unix / BSD variants, although the options will vary depending on versions.

‘man’ is your friend. ‘man’ will tell you what the options are. ‘man’ may even give you useful examples. ‘man’ will help you but only if you ask.

Listing files ls ls -al ls -la dir

Moving files mv ren

Deleting files rm del

Getting information on files file head tail strings

File permissions chmod chown chgrp mask

Outputting files cat less more tee

Creating and editing files touch echo vi emacs nano

Finding files find . -name ‘.DS_’ find . -name ‘.DS_’ -delete grep locate slocate

Batch operations xargs sort uniq

Scheduled jobs cron crontab

processes vmstat iostat top htop atop ps ps -ef ps -efaww kill killall lsof