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Linux Commands

This document provides a summary of common Linux commands organized into the following sections: file management commands, directory navigation commands, process management commands, text editors, and piping/redirection. It also includes brief descriptions of the overthewire bandit challenges and mentions using man pages and grep to get more information on commands.

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Linux Commands

This document provides a summary of common Linux commands organized into the following sections: file management commands, directory navigation commands, process management commands, text editors, and piping/redirection. It also includes brief descriptions of the overthewire bandit challenges and mentions using man pages and grep to get more information on commands.

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Linux Commands

sudo
su
apt
passwd
Ls - Directory listing
Ls -la - show hidden files
Ls -lt - Sorting the Formatted listing by time modification
cd dir - Change directory to dir
cd - Change to home directory
cd .. - to go backwards
pwd - Show current working directory
mkdir dir - Creating a directory dir
rmdir - remove directory
Cat - to read files
more file - Output the contents of the file
head file - Output the first 10 lines of the file
tail file - Output the last 10 lines of the file
touch file - Create or update file
rm file - Deleting the file
rm -r dir - Deleting the directory containing files
rm -f file - Force to remove the file
rm -rf dir - Force to remove the directory dir
rm -r * - to remove all contents in a folder
cp file1 file2 - Copy the contents of file1 to file2
cp -r dir1 dir2 - Copy dir1 to dir2;create dir2 if not present
mv file1 file2 - Rename or move file1 to file2,if file2 is an existing directory
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ssh username@hostname -p port_number
ssh username@ip_address -p port_number
overthewire.org :-> bandit challenge
challenge goal
-------- ------
bandit0 ssh connection
bandit1 reading files using cat
bandit2 reading "-" named file using ./-
bandit3 ,bandit4 , bandit5 your challenge . just make a try, use man
command if you face any issues

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ln -s file - link Create symbolic link link to file
ln first_file last_file - to link 2 files
ps aux - To display the currently working processes
top - Display all running process
kill pid - Kill the process with given pid
killall proc - Kill all the process named proc
file - to check the file type
man - manual page of a command
locate file - Find all instances of file
find . -name filename - Searches in the current directory
grep - to filter something in a file
date - Show the current date and time
whoami - Who you are logged in as
uname -a - Show kernel information
man - command Show the manual for command
ping host - Ping host and output results
wget file - Download file
exit - Logout the current session
nano - text editor
vi - text editor
echo - to reflect something back
passwd -
su - switch user
sudo - supper user do

piping and re-direction


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echo "hai sir" > file.txt - save output as a file
echo "hai man" >> file.txt - save output in an existing file

sudo bash :- super user do bash


exit :- to exit from current session :- or ctrl+d
ctrl+c :- stop
SU :- switch user
pwd - present working directory
clear

nano
-----
nano filename
ctrl+s save
ctrl+x exit

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