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1. ls - used to list the files and directories in a directory
2. cd - used to change the current directory
3. pwd - used to display the current working directory
4. mkdir - used to create a new directory
5. rmdir - used to remove an empty directory
6. rm - used to remove a file or directory
7. touch - used to create a new file
8. cp - used to copy a file or directory
9. mv - used to move or rename a file or directory
10. nano or vim - used to edit text files in the command line
11. cat - used to display the contents of a file
12. less - used to view the contents of a file one page at a time
13. grep - used to search for a specific string of text in a file or multiple files
14. find - used to search for files in a directory
15. chmod - used to change the permissions of a file or directory
16. chown - used to change the owner of a file or directory
17. su - used to switch to the superuser or root account
18. sudo - used to execute a command as the superuser or root account
19. exit - used to log out of the current user account
20. clear - used to clear the terminal screen
21. history - used to display a list of recently executed commands
22. top - used to display the currently running processes and their resource usage
23. ps - used to display the currently running processes
24. kill - used to terminate a running process
25. df - used to display the available and used disk space on a file system
26. du - used to display the size of a directory or file
27. free - used to display the amount of free and used memory in the system
28. ln - used to create a symbolic link between a file or directory
29. tar - used to create and extract archive files
30. gzip and gunzip - used to compress and decompress files
31. ssh - used to securely connect to a remote system
32. scp - used to securely copy files between systems
33. rsync - used to efficiently copy files and directories between systems
34. ping - used to test network connectivity
35. traceroute - used to display the route a packet takes to reach a host
36. netstat - used to display information about network connections and routing tables
37. ipconfig - used to configure network interfaces
38. apt-get - used to manage packages on Debian-based systems
39. yum - used to manage packages on Red Hat-based systems
40. systemctl - used to manage and view system services

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Linux Commands (Case Sensitive):

Basic:
pwd                ==> print the name of current directory   || Ex: pwd
whoami             ==> print the current user                || Ex: whoami
cd [directoryName] ==> enter a directory               		 || Ex: cd Music
cd ..              ==> go back to the parent directory       || Ex: cd ..
cp [file]          ==> copy file                             || Ex: cp music.mp3
ls                 ==> list all items in the current folder  || Ex: ls
clear              ==> clears the terminal                   || Ex: clear
mkdir [foldername] ==> makes folder with the specified name  || Ex: mkdir Songs
rmdir [foldername] ==> removes the specified folder          || Ex: rmdir Songs
echo [param]       ==> outputs the value of the variable	 || Ex: echo "Hi"
					   or string to stdout		             
tree 			   ==> lists the files in the current		 || Ex: tree 
					   directory in tree like format 

For sorting files:
mv [file] [newname]==> rename a file or folder  			 || Ex: mv exe txt
cat [filename]     ==> reads the specified file              || Ex: cat cmds.txt
tac [filename]     ==> reads the specified file in reverse   || Ex: tac cmds.txt
tail [file, file]  ==> reads first 10 lines of the files     || Ex: tail cmds.txt
zip [file, file]   ==> compresses the specified files        || Ex: zip files
vi [file]          ==> edit file in the terminal             || Ex: vi cmds.txt
gedit [file]       ==> edits the file in text editor         || Ex: gedit cm.txt
nano [file]        ==> edit file in nano editor              || Ex: nano cmds.txt
tar                ==> same as bzip2 						 || Ex: tar file
bzip2 -z / -d      ==> compress and decompress files with    || Ex: bzip2 -z cmds
                       the extension "bz2" respectively  
gzip               ==> same as bzip2 but compresses files    || Ex: gzip file
						with a gz extension.

Getting help:
man [command]      ==> show the manual of the command        || Ex: ls man
[command] --help   ==> similar to man but ouputs in terminal || Ex: pwd --help
apropos [word]     ==> search for the word in description    || Ex: aprpos list
					   of all commands

More advanced: 
reboot             ==> reboot the system                     || Ex: reboot
which [command]    ==> ouputs the location of the command    || Ex: which ls
su [username]      ==> impersonate as the specified user     || Ex: su root
id				   ==> print user and group information 	 || Ex: id
hostname		   ==>  display or seta computer`s hostname  || Ex: hostname
uname -a          ==> show  all the information of the OS    || Ex: uname -a
exit               ==> exit the current user or the terminal || Ex: exit
shutdown -P +min   ==> shutdowns the system        			 || Ex: shutdown -P

Networking: 
ifconfig           ==> lists all the network interfaces on   || Ex: ifconfig
					   your machine 
netstat            ==> displays network connections for TCP, || Ex: netstat
					   routing tables, and a number of 
                       network interface and network 
                       protocol statistic

For listing hardware:
lscpu             ==> list CPU architecture information      || Ex: lscpu
lsusb             ==> list information about usbs            || Ex: lsusb
lsblk 			  ==> list block devices					 || Ex: lsblk
lsof			  ==> list opened files						 || Ex: lsof
lspci       	  ==> list PCI devices  	 				 || Ex: lscpi

System Administration: 
  User Management:
  who 			     ==> prints the current logged in users  || Ex: who
  users              ==> shows names of users logged in      || Ex: users
  adduser [username] ==> adds another user                   || Ex: adduser david
  useradd [username] ==> same as adduser but is not preferrd || Ex: useradd david
  deluser            ==> deletes a user                      || Ex: deluser david
  usermod [user]	 ==> modify user settings & prefrences   || Ex: usermod david --shell /bin/bash
  passwd [user]      ==> change the password of the user	 || Ex: passwd  
  uptime             ==> shows how long the system has been  || Ex: uptime
                         running, number logged on users and 
                         the system load averages		
  visudo 			 ==> recommended way to edit   			 || Ex: sudo visudo
  						 /etc/sudoers file
  vipw 			     ==> recommended way to edit /etc/passwd || Ex: sudo vipw
  						 file
  systemctl 		 ==> mangae all the background running   || Ex: sudo systemctl disable ssh
  						 services (daemons)
  journalctl 		 ==> see all the logs for systemctl		 || journalctl -xe
  
  Important Files:
  /etc/passwd     ==> stores information of all the users	 || cat /etc/passwd
  /etc/shadow     ==> stores the hashed version of every 	 || cat /etc/passwd
					user`s password
   
ps(Process Status)==> displays currently-running processes   || Ex: ps
ss(Socket Status) ==> used to dump socket statistics and	 || Ex: ss
					  displays information

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cd /								# Chage directory to root directory
cd ~								# Chage directory to home directory
cd ..								# Chage directory to parent of present directory
ls <folder>							# List files and directories 
find . -iname "<a.txt>"				# Find files with given name in current directory tree
pwd									# Get present working directory
printenv SHELL						# Shows path to default shell
bash								# Switch to bash shell as default shell
whoami								# username
id -u -n							# user id and group id (-n will return name)
uname -v							# OS name and version
top	-n 3							# resource usage by top 3 tasks
df -h 								# Disk usage in human readable format
ps -u root							# Info of running process with root user
man <command>						# reference manual of a command
date "+%T"							# Today's time
cp -r /src/old /dst/				# copy file from source to destination
mv /src/dir /dst/dir				# Change file name or path
rm -r <filename.py>					# Remove file <filename.py> or a folder with child
rm -rf                              # Delete folder recursively
rm <filename>                       # Delete the file  
touch a.txt b.txt c.txt				# Create empty text files 
ls l <filename.py>					# Shows permission on a file 
./<filename.py>						# Execute the file
chmod +x <filename.py>				# Add executable permission on the file
mkdir <folder>						# Make directory named "<folder>"
rmdir <folder>						# Remove directory named "<folder>"
wc -l <filename.py>					# Get count of lines in file (-l for lines, -w for words, -c for chars)
grep -i ss <filename.py>			# Return lines in matching pattern ss. -i for case insensitive
grep -v ss <filename.py>			# Return lines not matching pattern ss. 
cat <filename.py>					# Print file contents
cut -c 2-9 <filename.py>			# Extract characters 2 to 9 from each line of file
cut -d ' ' -f2 <filename.py>		# Extract 2nd field delimited by ' ' from each line of file
paste -d ',' a.txt b.txt c.txt		# Merge files side-by-side delimited by ',' from each line (columns increase)
more <filename.py>					# Print file contents page by page. Use "space" to go to next page. "q" to quit.
head -n 3 <filename.py>				# Print first 3 lines of file contents (tail for last)
python ./<filename.py>				# Run python script in current directory
tar -cf archive_name.tar <folder>	# Create archive tarball from contents in folder
tar	-xf archive_name.tar <folder>	# De-archive the tarball and extract contents in folder
tar -czf archive.tar.gz <folder>	# Create compressed archive tarball with folder
tar -xzf archive.tar.gz <folder>	# Extract compressed archived tarball in folder
zip	-r compress_bundle.zip <folder>	# Compress a folder into compress_bundle.zip
unzip -o compress_bundle.zip		# De-Compress / Extract compress_bundle.zip
hostname -i							# Print hostname (-i will provide ip address)
ping <www.google.com>				# Send packets to url and prints response
curl <www.google.com> -o save.txt	# Save contents of the url in save.txt
wget www.mysite.org/hidden.txt		# Download file from a url
sort -r <filename.txt>				# Sort lines in reverse alpha-numeric order
uniq <filename.txt>					# Filter out duplicated lines in a file
nano <filename.py>					# Open a file in nano text editor (Ctrl + O to save, Ctrl + X to exit)
vim <filename.py>					# Open a file in vim text editor
alien <package-name>.rpm			# .rpm format to .deb format
alien -r <package-name>.deb			# .deb format to .rpm format
sudo apt upgrade <package-name>		# Upgrade packages in dependency tree
sudo apt install <package-name>		# Install a package
pip install <package-name>			# Install a python package 
sudo yum install <package-name>		# Install a package in RPM based linux
ls [-a]| sort -r					# Piping or chaining commands (left command must return a result for right command to proceed)
varname="Hello"						# Shell variable (without any space between =)
echo $varname						# Calling the variable
echo $varname > file.txt			# writing value to a file
echo $varname >> file.txt			# appending value to a file
env									# List all environment variables
export varname						# Making it into environment variable
env | grep "varname"				# Check if the variable is in environment variable
unset varname						# Delete variable
alien <pkg> .rpm					# From debian to red-hat package conversionalien <pkg> .rpm
alien -r <pkg> .deb					# From rpm to deb
sudo apt/yum update <pkg>			# linux upgrade a package
sudo apt/yum install <pkg>			# linux install a package

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# cursor to the front 
ctrl + a

# cursor at the end
ctrl + e

# clear the current cmd
ctrl + u

# Exit or Stop cmd
ctrl + c

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#command $(other_command)
echo Hello $(who am i | cut -d' ' -f 1)
#output: Hello yourNAME

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username ec2-user
sudo su
yum install httpd
service start httpd
chkconfig httpd on

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