60 Commands of Linux : A Guide from Newbies to System Administrator

For a person new to Linux, finding Linux functional is still not very easy even after the emergence of user friendly Linux distribution like Ubuntu and Mint. The thing remains that there will always be some configuration on user’s part to be done manually.

60 Linux Commands

Just to start with, the first thing a user should know is the basic commands in terminal. Linux GUI runs on Shell. When GUI is not running but Shell is running, Linux is running. If Shell is not running, nothing is running. Commands in Linux is a means of interaction with Shell. For a beginners some of the basic computational task is to:

1. View the contents of a directory : A directory may contains visible and invisible files with different file permissions.
2. Viewing blocks, HDD partition, External HDD
3. Checking the integrity of Downloaded/Transferred Packages
4. Converting and copying a file
5. Know your machine name, OS and Kernel
6. Viewing history
7. Being root
8. Make Directory
9. Make Files
10. Changing the file permission
11. Own a file
12. Install, Update and maintain Packages
13. Uncompressing a file
14. See current date, time and calendar
15. Print contents of a file
16. Copy and Move
17. See the working directory for easy navigation
18. Change the working directory, etc…

And we have described all of the above basic computational task in our First Article.

Part I – Switching From Windows to Nix or a Newbie to Linux – 20 Useful Commands for Linux Newbies

This was the first article of this series. We tried to provide you with detailed description of these commands with explicit examples which was highly appreciated by our reader in terms of likes, comments and traffic.

What after these initial commands? Obviously we moved to the next part of this article where we provided commands for computational tasks like:

1. Finding a file in a given directory
2. Searching a file with the given keywords
3. Finding online documentation
4. See the current running processes
5. Kill a running process
6. See the location of installed Binaries
7. Starting, Ending, Restarting a service
8. Making and removing of aliases
9. View the disk and space usages
10. Removing a file and/or directory
11. Print/echo a custom output on standard output
12. Changing password of on-self and other’s, if you are root.
13. View Printing queue
14. Compare two files
15. Download a file, the Linux way (wget)
16. Mount a block / partition / external HDD
17. Compile and Run a code written in ‘C’, ‘C++’ and ‘Java’ Programming Language

This Second Article was again highly appreciated by the readers of Tecmint.com. The article was nicely elaborated with suitable examples and output.

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