[olug] Linux terms and commands

Teale Sloterdijk teale11 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 09:16:23 CDT 2022


In no particular order
cd
pwd
ls
vi
cat
grep
sed
awk
pushd
popd
systemctl
journalctl
htop
iotop
tcpdump
strace
ps
nc
telnet
ssh
rsync
find
wall
echo
tar
gzip
sort
mount
crontab
file
man/apropos

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 07:44 Joseph Gulizia <joseph.gulizia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you for responding.  Due to a physical constraint I need to limit the
> number of terms to 48 terms.  I am hopeful others will give their input as
> well.
>
> Joe
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 00:36 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> > You should know most of the listed commands. Here are a few I consider
> > of minor importance:
> >
> > telnet: Used only for socket troubleshooting.
> >
> > nano: A relatively lousy editor. Vim, Emacs and VSCode are all better.
> >       IMHO.
> >
> > paste: Too complicated. Better done with AWK or Python.
> >
> > The rest are very useful in numerous circumstances. And you forgot dd
> > and its more intelligent cousin, ddrescue.
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> >
> >
> > Joseph Gulizia said on Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:51:59 -0500
> >
> > >Informal Poll:
> > >
> > >Which of these terms would you consider most important to know (1),
> > >somewhat important to know (2) and least important to know (3).  I'm
> > >trying to limit these to a list of 48.  Are there other terms that
> > >should be a (1) or a (2)....what would they replace?  I'd like to have
> > >all your feedback by Thursday March 24th if possible.  Thanks,
> > >Joe Gulizia
> > >
> > >/
> > >/bin
> > >/boot
> > >/dev
> > >/etc
> > >/home
> > >/lib
> > >/media
> > >/mnt
> > >/proc
> > >/opt
> > >/sbin
> > >/tmp
> > >/usr
> > >/var
> > >apropos
> > >awk
> > >bash
> > >bunzip
> > >cal
> > >cat
> > >cd
> > >chgrp
> > >chmod
> > >chown
> > >clear
> > >cp
> > >cut
> > >date
> > >df
> > >du
> > >echo
> > >emacs
> > >find
> > >free
> > >fsck
> > >grep
> > >gunzip
> > >gzip
> > >head
> > >hostname
> > >id
> > >ifconfig
> > >info
> > >init
> > >kill
> > >less
> > >ln
> > >locate
> > >ls
> > >man
> > >mkdir
> > >more
> > >mount
> > >mv
> > >nano
> > >netstat
> > >nslookup
> > >paste
> > >ping
> > >ps
> > >pwd
> > >reboot
> > >rm
> > >rmdir
> > >root
> > >sed
> > >shutdown
> > >sort
> > >ssh
> > >su
> > >sudo
> > >swap
> > >tac
> > >tail
> > >tar
> > >tee
> > >telnet
> > >top
> > >touch
> > >traceroute
> > >uniq
> > >unmount
> > >uptime
> > >vim
> > >wc
> > >who
> > >whoami
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> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
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