Linux offers a ton of commands that can be used to perform various operations, ranging from simply creating a new file, to complex system controls, all from your terminal. Today we will be looking at 20 of these helpful commands. Let’s go!
lscpu – Lists the CPU info of device.
apt list – Lists all available packages. Add (–installed) to search for only the installed ones.
cmatrix – Creates a cool matrix look in your terminal (( apt install cmatrix )).
ps – Lists all the running processes.
top – Displays info of all the running processes in your terminal.
ps aux – Prints out the complete proccess table of the kernel
ps -A – List all current process
kill – stops a process. (( kill [process id] ))
exit – Terminates the current open proccess.
chsh – Changes the login shell ((shell that boots up first in the terminal))
echo $$ – Prints the calling parent proccess id.
echo $PID_MAX – Prints out the maximum number of proccess that can be run simultaneously in the machine.
ls -F – Lists contents of the current directory, and also adds / to the end of each directory name, to signify it’s a directory.
echo $PATH | sed ‘s/:/n/g’ – Prints each directory contained in the the environment PATH variable, one directory per line.
echo off – Disable visibility of characters entered in the terminal(can be used for password input). The opposite is used to turn it back on.
whereis – Prints out the file path(whereabout)of a linux command or file i.e (whereis command) .
uname – Prints out the name of the operating system.
cat /etc/*os-release – Prints out the details of the distro u’re using.
echo $? – Prints out the exit code of the previous command.
diff – Shows the difference between the two files specified.
That is all for this article. Hope you’ve been able to learn something new today 😊. If you have any questions or suggestions, don’t hesitate to drop them in the comment section. Till then, happy coding!🤗
