Linux Essential Basic Commands Every User Should Know

Linux is termed to be most secure and has market share of nearly 3% on Desktops whereas cloud infrastructure and hosting services are using this free open source operating system and who works on it should be familiar with basic and most commonly used commands of Linux all the way.  

As all known that Linux is free and open-source, has better security which boasts a powerful command line that makes developers and power users more effective. In general, Linux command is a program or utility that runs on the command line.

Quickstartz.com here gives complete popular Linux commands list which can be an advantage and more useful to Newcomer to Linux or Sysadmin. Check out below for quick reference of mostly used Linux commands.

Command	Usage
ls	Lists the content of a directory
alias	Define or display aliases
unalias	Remove alias definitions
pwd	Prints the working directory
cd	Changes directory
cp	Copies files and directories
rm	Remove files and directories
mv	Moves (renames) files and directories
mkdir	Creates directories
man	Displays manual page of other commands
touch	Creates empty files
chmod	Changes file permissions
./	Runs an executable
exit	Exits the current shell session
sudo	Executes commands as superuser
shutdown	Shutdowns your machine
htop	Displays processes and resources information
unzip	Extracts compressed ZIP files
apt, yum, pacman	Package managers
echo	Displays lines of text
cat	Prints file contents
ps	Reports shell processes status
kill	Terminates programs
ping	Tests network connectivity
vim	Efficient text editing
history	Shows a list of previous commands
passwd	Changes user password
which	Returns the full binary path of a program
shred	Overwrites a file to hide its contents
less	Inspects files interactively
tail	Displays last lines of a file
head	Displays first lines of a file
grep	Prints lines that match patterns
whoami	Outputs username
whatis	Shows single-line descriptions
wc	Word count files
uname	Displays OS information
neofetch	Displays OS and hardware information
find	Searches for files that follow a pattern
wget	Retrieves files from the internet

Post Author - Ravi Kumar (Linux)