Basic Linux commands

Most used linux commands list

𝐩𝐰𝐝 – Print working directory.

𝐥𝐬 – List directory contents.

𝐜𝐝 – Change directory.

𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 – To create a file without any content.

𝐜𝐚𝐭 – Concatenate and display file content.

𝐜𝐩 – Copy files or directories.

𝐦𝐯 – Move or rename files or directories.

𝐫𝐦 – Remove files or directories.

𝐦𝐤𝐝𝐢𝐫 – Create a new directory.

𝐫𝐦𝐝𝐢𝐫 – Remove an empty directory.

𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐨 – Display a line of text or a variable value.

𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐨 – A simple text editor.

𝐯𝐢 – A powerful text editor.

𝐜𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐝 – Change file or directory permissions.

𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐧 – Change file or directory owner and group.

𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 – Search for files in a directory hierarchy.

𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐩 – Search text using patterns.

𝐦𝐚𝐧 – Display the manual for a command.

𝐩𝐬 – Display information about running processes.

𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 – Terminate processes by PID.

𝐭𝐨𝐩 – Display and update sorted information about processes.

𝐝𝐟 – Report file system disk space usage.

𝐝𝐮 – Estimate file space usage.

𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 – Display memory usage.

𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 – Print system information.

𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 – Tell how long the system has been running.

𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐚𝐦𝐢 – Display the current user.

𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐨 – Execute a command as another user, typically the superuser.

𝐚𝐩𝐭-𝐠𝐞𝐭 – Package handling utility for Debian-based distributions.

𝐲𝐮𝐦 – Package manager for RPM-based distributions.

𝐭𝐚𝐫 – Archive files.

𝐳𝐢𝐩 – Package and compress (archive) files.

𝐮𝐧𝐳𝐢𝐩 – Extract compressed files.

𝐰𝐠𝐞𝐭 – Retrieve files from the web.

𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥 – Transfer data from or to a server.

𝐬𝐬𝐡 – OpenSSH client (remote login program).

𝐬𝐜𝐩 – Secure copy (remote file copy program).

𝐫𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜 – Remote file and directory synchronization.

𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 – Show or set the system’s host name.

𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 – Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts.

𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭 – Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships.

𝐢𝐟𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐠 – Configure a network interface.

𝐢𝐩 – Show/manipulate routing, devices, policy routing, and tunnels.

𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 – Administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT.

𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐜𝐭𝐥 – Control the systemd system and service manager.

𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐭𝐥 – Query and display messages from the journal.

𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛 – Schedule periodic background jobs.

𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐮 – Allows us to switch to a different user and execute one or more commands in the shell without logging out from our current session.

𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 – Mount a file system.

𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 – Unmount a file system.

You can checkout the below link of the Linux Roadmap.

https://roadmap.sh/linux