Linux is a Unix-like operating system that is widely used for a variety of purposes, including web servers, application servers, and desktop environments. Here is a list of some popular Linux commands:
ls
: list the files and directories in a directorycd
: change the current working directorymkdir
: create a new directorytouch
: create a new filerm
: delete a file or directorycp
: copy a file or directorymv
: move or rename a file or directorygrep
: search for a pattern in a file or outputfind
: search for files based on criteria such as name, size, and modification datecat
: display the contents of a fileless
: view the contents of a file one page at a timehead
: display the first few lines of a filetail
: display the last few lines of a filesort
: sort the lines of a fileuniq
: remove duplicate lines from a file
It is not possible to list all Linux commands, as there are many thousands of them and new ones are being developed all the time. However, here is a list of some common Linux commands that are available on most systems:
a2p
: Awk to Perl translatoralias
: create an alias for a commandapropos
: search the manual page names and descriptionsapt-get
: package manager for Debian-based systemsaspell
: interactive spell checkerawk
: pattern scanning and processing languagebase64
: encode or decode base64 databash
: GNU Bourne-Again Shellbc
: arbitrary precision calculator languagebg
: move a job to the backgroundbreak
: exit from a loopbzip2
: compress or decompress filescal
: display a calendarcat
: concatenate and print filescd
: change the current working directorychgrp
: change the group ownership of a filechmod
: change the permissions of a filechown
: change the ownership of a filechroot
: run a command with a different root directorycksum
: compute the CRC checksum of a file
This is just a small selection of the many commands available in Linux. For a complete list of commands, you can consult the documentation for your particular distribution of Linux, or use the man
command to view the manual pages for a command.