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50 basic Linux commands

Ritik Pal on July 09, 2024

𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝟓𝟎 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐱 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬: 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 🐧 𝐩𝐰𝐝 - Print working directory. 📂 𝐥𝐬 - List directory contents. 📋 𝐜𝐝 - Change ...

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Tung Leo • Jul 9 '24 • Edited

That's a great summary. Adding htop as it provides us the very nice UI and metrics of our process usage

Luna • Jul 10 '24

Some ppl might have to install that first, there is also top which is usually installed by default :)

Kemal Oktay Aktoğan • Jul 11 '24

A humble suggestion; Instead of "sudo su", "sudo -i" would be more correct.

Ritik Pal • Jul 12 '24

Thanks for the comments

vasu sharma • Jul 12 '24

for detailed process you can use glances also but you have to install first

Ritik Pal • Jul 17 '24

can you please guide me for that ?

Kush Gupta • Jul 12 '24 • Edited

helpful!! :)

Ritik Pal • Jul 17 '24

thanks for your comment

Alan Albuquerque Ferreira Lopes • Aug 31 '24 • Edited

A little curiosity: the touch command is not primarily intended to create a new file; it is used to change the access and/or modification date and time of an existing file. However, if you use touch on a non-existent file, it will create a new file. To explicitly create a new file, you can use: