man |
format and display the on-line manual pages |
man [section] name ... |
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(q)uit (/) search |
<TAB> |
Auto-complete |
<UP> |
Scroll through previous commands |
<CTRL>-C |
Cancel |
<CTRL>-A |
Jump to beginning of line |
ls |
list directory contents |
ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUW@abcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...] |
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cd |
Change the current directory to DIR |
cd [-L\|-P] [dir] |
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cp |
copy files |
cp [-R [-H \| -L \| -P]] [-fi \| -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file |
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mv |
move files |
mv [-f \| -i \| -n] [-v] source target |
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rm |
remove directory entries |
rm [-dfiPRrvW] file ... |
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mkdir |
make directories |
mkdir [-pv] [-m mode] directory_name ... |
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. |
Current directory |
.. |
Parent directory |
~ |
Home directory |
/ |
Root directory |
* |
Wildcard |
head |
display first lines of a file |
head [-n count \| -c bytes] [file ...] |
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less |
program used to view contents of text files one screen at a time |
less [-...N...S...] |
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(q)uit (/)search |
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wc |
word, line, character, and byte count |
wc [-clmw] [file ...] |
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grep |
file pattern searcher |
grep [-...c...vw...] [-A num] [-B num] [-f file] [pattern] [file ...] |
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cut |
cut out selected portions of each line of a file |
cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file ...] |
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sort |
sort lines of text files |
sort [OPTION]... [FILE]... |
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uniq |
report or filter out repeated lines in a file |
uniq [-c \| -d \| -u] [-i] [-f num] [-s chars] [input_file [output_file]] |
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send output of one command to another command as input |
> |
save output to a new file |
>> |
append output to an existing file |
< |
use file as input |