Basic Commands Kali Linux

Question 1

This commands update all the apts and update it a basic update command

Answer 1

apt update

Don’t use apt-get

Question 2

What command restarts your kali Linux machine,like windows restart button, or reboots it

Answer 2

reboot

Question 3

What command prints the current directory you are in

Answer 3

Pwd

Question 4

What command is know as list, and list the directory’s and files

Answer 4

Ls

Question 5

What command shows hidden files and hidden directory’s

Answer 5

ls -la

Question 6

What command clears the terminal so you can start at the top of the terminal again

Answer 6

clear

Question 7

What command can put you in another directory, this command also stands for change directory

Answer 7

cd

Question 8

What command can make files in a directory

Answer 8

touch

You can use this command by type I get any name you want to name the file after the touch command like this

touch file.txt

Question 9

What command lets you remove files

Answer 9

rm

Question 10

What command lets you make a directory/folder

Answer 10

mkdir

This command stands for make directory and you use it like

mkdir kali

You can use any name I just used kali for example

Question 11

Are directory’s and files different colors

And what color are executable files

Answer 11

YES

In kali 2020.4 files are WHITE and directory’s are BLUE
Executable files are Green

Question 12

What command do you use to remove a directory

Answer 12

rm kali -r

I used kali as a directory use any directory there though but to remove a directory you must put a -r at the end

Question 13

What command deletes all the files in a directory

Answer 13

rm * -r

This command can be dangerous if you type it in the root directory you will delete most of the files on kali Linux

Question 14

What command can take you out of a directory or lead you a directory back one

Answer 14

cd ..

Question 15

What command tells who the current user of a terminal is

Answer 15

whoami

Question 16

What command do you use to run a program, possibly one you made or something with nano

Answer 16

./

Example

./program.py

If it doesn’t work use the chmod commands to fix it

Question 17

What do the 3 letters stand for beside files RWX you will se this when typeing in ls -la

Answer 17

r - read

w - wright

x - execute

Question 18

What command lets you change the properties of files and like letting it be executable

Answer 18

chmod

To make a file executable you must add the x, in the rwx thing so to make a file executable you would type

chmod +x program.py

I used program.py for an example use any file or program thing you want for this

Question 19

What command prints out contes from a file in a terminal

Answer 19

cat

To use this command here is an example

cat program.py

Use any file you what to cat but after that command you will now be able to see all the contents that were in that file.

By the wya if you just type cat on it’s own to get out of it just type ctrl c on the keyboard and it will take you out of it

Question 20

If you want to see all of the process running in real time on your kali Linux what command do you use

Answer 20

Top

Question 21

What command lets you put text in a file or rewright text in a file

Answer 21

echo

Now be careful when useing echo if you use it on a file that already has text it will remove that text and just put your text, here’s and example of how to use it though

echo sup > words.txt

So you can use and file and any words or sentences after echo that you want to use but that it for echo

Question 22

What command upgrades all of your tools to the newest update and updates all the packages

Answer 22

apt upgrade

Don’t use apt-get

Question 23

What command shows all the commands you have ran in the past

Answer 23

History

Question 24

What command lets you copy files

Answer 24

cp

This command lets you copy files and here’s an example of how to copy a file to another directory

cp program.py test

This command just copied the file to another directory so now you have 2 copy’s of this file

Question 25

What command moves files to other directorys

Answer 25

mv program.py test

It is now moved to that folder

Question 26

What command lest your rename files

Answer 26

mv program.py anothername.py

So mv is also used to move files but you can rename files with it to by doing this and it keeps them in the same directory, as long as the name at the end isn’t a directory

Question 27

What command show options or a manual for a command

Answer 27

man cat

You can now see things you can do with cat

Question 28

What command lets you locate a file name with a word you might want to use

Answer 28

locate

You could use this command like this

locate word

It would the show all files that involve the word, word😂

Question 29

What command do you use to shutdown kali Linux from the terminal

Answer 29

shutdown then it will show how long it has left till it shuts down

To cancel the shutdown type this command

Shutdown -c

Question 30

What command do you use to restart or reboot kali Linux

Answer 30

reboot

Question 31

What command show the current process running in the terminal you have open

Answer 31

ps

Question 32

If you want to see all of the process running in real time on your kali Linux what command do you use

Answer 32

top

Question 33

What tells you your operating system in kali Linux

Answer 33

uname

If you want to know the whole name of your os the you just put this command

uname -a

Question 34

What command shows your private IP address and other network info

Answer 34

Ifconfig

Question 35

What command shows the gateway IP address and some other network info

Answer 35

netstat -nr

Question 36

What command shows your current tcp connections

Answer 36

netstat -antp

TCP connections will basically show when your run something in the internet like tor or like Firefox or any program with internet

Here’s is what it looks like when you are not connected to any internet programs or browsers

This below is what it look like when you are connected to them you see it says established on the right on all them

Now wanse you down you can run the command again and it should no longer say you established

As you can see above it just says time wait not established good

You can find the pictures for this by looking up the card in notes

Question 37

What command closes and exits the terminal

Answer 37

Exit