This post is a complete list of Linux Commands along with a brief description of it’s usage, if you would like a pdf copy email me kjs fedoraproject.org

Linux File Management Commands

• cat – Displays file contents
• chfn – Change user info for finger, email, etc
• chgrp – Changes the group of files
• chmod – Change acces file system permissions for files / dir’s
• chown – Changes the owner of the file(s) or dir(s)
• chsh – Changes the login shell
• cksum – Computes checksums
• cp – Copies files
• csplit – Splits files into pieces
• dd – (Dumb Dump) copies files at disk level
• file – Identifies file type
• head – Shows the first few lines of a file
• hex dump – Displays hex files
• less – Displays file contents a screen full at a time
• ln – Create file aliases (links, sym links, hard links etc)
• ls – Displays the dir’s contents
• merge – Merges files together
• mkdir – Creates directories
• mv – Moves files
• more – Displays file contents a screen full at a time (the same as less)
• newgrp – Changes the current group
• od – Display files in octal format
• pwd – Prints (shows) the working directory
• rmdir – Remove (delete) Directory (Normally they have to be empty)
• rm – Remove (delete) files
• shred – Securely deletes files
• split – Splits files evenly
• tac – Prints (shows) the lines of files in the reverse order
• tail – Shows the last few lines of a file (by default the last 10)
• tailf – Follows the growth of a log file (shows you the contents as the system writes to the log file)
• touch – Updates the file time stamps, if the file does not already exist it will be created
• wc – Counts lines, words and characters.