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Introduction to Unix/ Linux: A Beginner’s Guide List of Commands

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79 min readJan 27, 2024

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Command List:

A: adduser, alias, apropos, arch, at, awk,
B: basename, bash, bc, bzip2,
C: cal, cat, cd, chmod, chgrp, chown, clear, cp, cmp, cpio, cron, crontab, csh, cut,
D: date, dc, dd, df, diff, dirname, disown, dmesg, du,
E: echo, egrep, env, export,
F: fg, fgrep, file, find, fold, ftp, fuser,
G: gawk, getfacl, grep, groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, groups, gzip,
H: head, history, hostname, hostid
I: id, ifconfig, info, init, iostat,
J: jobs, join,
K: kill, killall, ksh,
L: less, ln, locate, logname, lsof, ls,
M: mail, man, mkdir, mkfs, more, mount, mv,
N: netstat, nl, nohup,
P: passwd, paste, perl, pg, pidof, ping, pkill, popd, pr, ps, pstree, pushd, pwd,
R: renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rsync,
S: sar, sed, select, service, set, setfacl, setgid, setuid, sh, sort, spell, split, ssh, stat, stty, su, sudo, systemctl, sysctl,
T: tar, tail, tee, telnet, test, time, top, touch, traceroute, tr, tree, true, tty,
U: umask, uname, unmount, uniq, uptime, users, useradd, userdel, usermod,
V: vi, view, vmstat,
W: w, wc, wget, whatis, whereis, which, who, whoami,
X: xargs, xz,
Y: yes,
Z: zip

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adduser:

  • Creates a new user account on the system.
  • Sets up a home directory for the user.
  • Assigns a unique User ID (UID) and…

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