Certainly! Here are 50 basic Linux commands that are useful for navigating and managing your system:
pwd – Print working directory.
ls – List directory contents.
cd – Change directory.
touch – Create a new empty file.
cat – Concatenate and display file content.
cp – Copy files or directories.
mv – Move or rename files or directories.
rm – Remove files or directories.
mkdir – Create a new directory.
rmdir – Remove an empty directory.
echo – Display a line of text or a variable value.
nano – A simple text editor.
vi – A powerful text editor.
chmod – Change file or directory permissions.
chown – Change file or directory owner and group.
find – Search for files in a directory hierarchy.
grep – Search text using patterns.
man – Display the manual for a command.
ps – Display information about running processes.
kill – Terminate processes by PID.
top – Display and update sorted information about processes.
df – Report file system disk space usage.
du – Estimate file space usage.
free – Display memory usage.
uname – Print system information.
uptime – Tell how long the system has been running.
whoami – Display the current user.
sudo – Execute a command as another user, typically the superuser.
apt-get – Package handling utility for Debian-based distributions.
yum – Package manager for RPM-based distributions.
tar – Archive files.
zip – Package and compress (archive) files.
unzip – Extract compressed files.
wget – Retrieve files from the web.
curl – Transfer data from or to a server.
ssh – OpenSSH client (remote login program).
scp – Secure copy (remote file copy program).
rsync – Remote file and directory synchronization.
hostname – Show or set the system’s host name.
ping – Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts.
netstat – Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships.
ifconfig – Configure a network interface.
ip – Show/manipulate routing, devices, policy routing, and tunnels.
iptables – Administration tool for IPv4 packet filtering and NAT.
systemctl – Control the systemd system and service manager.
journalctl – Query and display messages from the journal.
crontab – Schedule periodic background jobs.
df – Report file system disk space usage.
mount – Mount a file system.
umount – Unmount a file system.
These commands form the basis of interacting with a Linux system and performing various administrative tasks.
Goodluck!
