What are the basic commands in LINUX?

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What are the basic commands in LINUX?..

Answer / amit puri

Basic Commands in linux :
pwd:-display current directory path,
mkdir:-make new dir,
touch:- make empty file,
cat:-display contain of the file,
ls:- list of directory,
rmdir:-remove dir,
rm:-remove file,
cp :- copy the file.

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What are the basic commands in LINUX?..

Answer / ratnakar padhy

Basic means in real time we use IFCONFIG TOP SAR LS DF DU,

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What are the basic commands in LINUX?..

Answer / nipesh

cat:-
create a file and Sends file contents to standard output.
This is a way to list the contents of short files to the
screen. It works well with piping.
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cd:-
Change directory
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cp:-
copy the file
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df:-
Show the amount of disk space used on each mounted
filesystem
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logout:-
Logs the current user off the system.
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mv:-
Move or rename files
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pwd:-
Show the name of the current working directory

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What are the basic commands in LINUX?..

Answer / mcmarc

ls
mv
cp
lspci
netstat
top
tar
which
uname
who
last
mkdir
touch
cat
vi
grep
ps
file
find

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What are the basic commands in LINUX?..

Answer / amit kumar ghosh

It is not practical to say the basic cmds of linux.

There are many, it depends on user & company requirements,
also with any cmd we can create more cmd & that also becomes
basic.

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What are the basic commands in LINUX?..

Answer / v.balaviswanathan

It depends on the user

If the user is root or a system administrator the task and
the commands are different and depending on the task
commands vary those might be the basic as well
like " top, ls, lspci, ps aux, df, du, ls -Z, service, cat,
basename etc"

If the user is normal then commands like "cat, passwd, ls,
export(While writing shell scripts) etc.

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