All commands mentioned Flashcards
bash
the “Bourne Again Shell”, interactive command line interperter
date
displays the date
echo
writes all params to standard output, seperated by spaces
help
displays online help for commands that follow
type
determines the type of command (builtin, function, etc)
type -t
determines the type with single word
apropos
all man pages whos NAME sections contain a given keyword
groff
sophisticated typesetting program
help
displays online help for bash commands
info
displays GNU based info pages on a character-based terminal
less
displays text (such as man pages) by page
man
displays sys man pages
manpath
determines seach path for sys man pages
whatis
locates man page for given command
cd
change directory
convmv
converts fine names between character encodings
cp
copies files
find
searches files matching certain given criteriea
less
displays text (such as man pages)
ln
creatse hard or symbolic linxs
locate
finds files by name in a file name database
ls
lists file information or directory contents
mkdir
creates new directories
pwd
displays the name of the current working directory
rm
removes files or directories
rmdir
removes empty directories
slocate
searches file by name in a file name database, taking file permissions into account
updatedb
creatse the file name database for locate
xargs
constructs command lines from its standard inptu
