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36 Useful Terminal Commands

#webdev #beginners #programming

Here is a little list of terminal commands that you can find useful, I use some of them a lot and others from time to time.

  1. Print Current Working Directory. It will print the full path. 
pwd
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  1. List of current directory contents 
ls
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  1. Change the directory 
cd DirectoryName
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  1. To change to zsh shell. 
chsh -s /bin/zsh
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  1. Clear the terminal logs 
clear or cls
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  1. Copy files from the current directory to a different directory 
cp source_file target_directory
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  1. Move files from the current directory to a different directory 
mv
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  1. Make a new directory 
mkdir NameNewDirectory
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  1. Delete empty directories 
rmdir
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  1. Delete directories and contents within them (*be careful when using it) 
rm DirectoryName
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  1. Create a new blank file 
touch
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  1. Find a file 
locate
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  1. Search for files and directories within a given directory 
find
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  1. Search through all the text in a file 
grep FileName
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  1. Perform tasks that need admin or root permissions 
sudo
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  1. Get a report on the systems disk space usage (% and KBs) 
df
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  1. Check how much space a file or a directory take 
du
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  1. View the first few lines of a text file 
head
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  1. Display the last ten lines of a text file 
tail
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  1. Compare the contents of two different files, line by line 
diff
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  1. Archive multiple files into a group of files collected together as one 
tar
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  1. Change the read, write and execute permissions of files and directories 
chmod
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  1. Transfer the ownership of a file to the specified username 
chown
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  1. Display all current jobs along with their status 
jobs
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  1. Terminate a program manually 
kill
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  1. Check the connectivity status to a server 
ping
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  1. Download files from the internet 
wget
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  1. Display a list of running processes and how much CPU each process uses 
top
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  1. Get information about a Linux command 
man
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  1. Move data into a file 
echo
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  1. Compress files into a zip file 
zip
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  1. Extract a zip file 
unzip
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  1. Display the name of the host or network 
hostname
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  1. Create a new user 
useradd
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  1. Delete a user 
userdel
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  1. After creating a user, it can be used to set a password for that user 
passed
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Thanks for reading, I appreciate your time! 🎉 If you need any help please reach out!

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Have a nice day!

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Anders Persson •

Kill have en very nice switch -9
kill -9 <process>
-9 tells kill to DO IT, sometimes a process will not stop and -9 force it.

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Vandy Sodanheang • • Edited

Oh, I think your ordering meant:

  1. ....
  2. ....

Something like this right?

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