Linux Commands

Below is a selection of some of the most used Linux shell commands. You’ll be able to have an idea of what the ‘man’ utility would return for each of these commands, without the need for you to have a Linux box at your disposal:

Commands starting with: A
addr2line – agetty – apm – apropos – apt – ar – arch – arp – as – autoconf – autoheader – autoreconf – autoscan – autoupdate
Commands starting with: B
badblocks – basename – bash – bzcmp – bzdiff – bzgrep – bzip2 – bzless – bzmore
Commands starting with: C
cal – cat – cdrecord – chage – chattr – chfn – chgrp – chkconfig – chmod – chown – chpasswd – chroot – chsh – cksum – clear – cmp – col – colcrt – colrm – column – comm – cp – cpp – crond – crontab – csplit – cut
Commands starting with: D
date – dd – debugfs – depmod – df – diff – diff3 – dig – dir – dircolors – dirname – dmesg – dnsdomainname – dnssec-keygen – dnssec-makekeyset – dnssec-signkey – dnssec-signzone – doexec – domainname – du – dumpe2fs
Commands starting with: E
e2fsck – e2image – e2label – echo – edquota – egrep – elvtune – enable – env – envsubst – esd-config – esd – esdcat – esdctl – esddsp – esdmon – esdplay – esdrec – esdsample – ex – expand – expr
Commands starting with: F
factor – false – fc-cache – fc-list – fdformat – fdisk – fgrep – file – find – finger – fmt – fold – formail – free – fsck – ftp – fuser
Commands starting with: G
gawk – gcc – gdb – gpasswd – gpg – gpgv – gpm – gprof – grep – groff – groffer – groupadd – groupdel – groupmod – groups – grpck – grpconv – gs – gunzip – gzexe – gzip
Commands starting with: H
halt – head – hexdump – host – hostid – hostname – htdigest – hwclock
Commands starting with: I
id – ifconfig – info – init – insmod – install – ipcrm – ipcs – iptables-restore – iptables-save – iptables – isodump – isoinfo – isosize
Commands starting with: J
join
Commands starting with: K
kernelversion – kill – killall – killall5 – klogd
Commands starting with: L
last – lastb – lastlog – ld – less – lesskey – link – ln – locale – locate – lockfile – logger – login – logname – logrotate – look – losetup – ls – lsattr – lsmod
Commands starting with: M
mailq – mailstats – make – makemap – man – manpath – md5sum – mesg – mkdir – mke2fs – mkfifo – mkfs.ext3 – mkfs – mkisofs – mknod – mkswap – mktemp – modinfo – modprobe – more – mount – mv
Commands starting with: N
named – namei – nameif – netstat – newaliases – newgrp – newusers – nice – nm – nohup – nslookup – nsupdate
Commands starting with: O
objcopy – objdump – od
Commands starting with: P
passwd – paste – patch – pathchk – perl – pidof – ping – pinky – pmap – portmap – poweroff – pr – praliases – printenv – printf – ps – ptx – pwck – pwconv – pwd – python
Commands starting with: Q
quota – quotacheck – quotaon
Commands starting with: R
ramsize – ranlib – rdev – readcd – readelf – readlink – reboot – rename – renice – repquota – reset – resize2fs – rev – rm – rmail – rmdir – rmmod – rndc – rootflags – route – rpm – runlevel
Commands starting with: S
scp – screen – script – sdiff – sed – sendmail – seq – setfdprm – setquota – setsid – setterm – sftp – sh – sha1sum – shred – shutdown – size – skill – slabtop – slattach – sleep – slocate – snice – sort – split – ssh-add – ssh-agent – ssh-keygen – ssh-keyscan – ssh – sshd – stat – strace – strings – strip – stty – su – sum – swapoff – swapon – sync – sysctl – sysklogd – syslogd
Commands starting with: T
tac – tail – tailf – tar – tcpd – tcpdump – tcpslice – tee – telinit – telnet – test – tload – tmpwatch – top – touch – tr – tracepath – traceroute – troff – true – tset – tsort – tty – tune2fs – tunelp
Commands starting with: U
ul – umount – uname – unexpand – uniq – uptime – useradd – userdel – usermod – users – usleep – uuidgen
Commands starting with: V
vdir – vi – vidmode – vim – vmstat
Commands starting with: W
w – wall – warnquota – watch – wc – wget – whatis – whereis – which – who – whoami – whois – write
Commands starting with: X
xargs – xinetd
Commands starting with: Y
yes
Commands starting with: Z
zcat – zcmp – zdiff – zforce – zgrep – zless – zmore – znew

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