50 Basic Linux Commands

by Kevin O'Neill

The following are 50 basic commands to utilize from the Linux command line. The commands can be utilized for personal, educational or corporate usage. Commands are simply explained with an example(s). Some commands include useful and common attributes and parameters for

alias
awk
basename
bc
bind
cal
cat
cd
chmod
clear
cp
ctrl
date
df
du
dir
echo
find
free
halt
hostname
history
grep
ifconfig
iostat
ip route
kill
less
ls
lsof
info
man
mv
mkdir
ping
ps
pwd
rm
sed
service
shutdown
sort
stat
tail
top
touch
traceroute
tree
uname
uptime
wc
whereis

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Published September 19, 2024

About the author

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Kevin O’Neill received the B.A. degree (magna cum laude) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, and the M.A., M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

He was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, where he has been an Adjunct Faculty since 1984; and he was an NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow with the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, where he became a Research Civil Engineer with a focus on porous media transport phenomena and geotechnically relevant electromagnetics. He has been a Visiting Fellow with the Department of Agronomy, Cornell University, and a Visiting Scientist with the Center for Electromagnetic Theory and Applications, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

His research interests include electromagnetic remote sensing of surfaces, layers, and particularly subsurface objects such as unexploded ordnance.