Top 10 Random Linux/Ubuntu Commands [SlideShow]

Here is a list of some useful Linux/Ubuntu commands that I gathered from here and there. This list is not meant to be comprehensive or to cover  the most important Linux/Ubuntu commands. However, I tried to include commands from various categories with examples.

#10: man[..]

Show the manual page/s of a command:

man <command>

#9: top[..]

Save process snapshot to a file:

top -b -n1 > /home/DIR/process.log

#8: wc[..]

Count the number of:

• Lines (-l)
• Words (-w)
• Characters (-c)

wc -l Yourfile

#7: dpkg[..]

Install a Debian (.deb) package:

sudo dpkg -i packagename

#6: auto-apt run[..]

auto-apt run asks you to install the packages needed by a command that tries to access a file that belongs to some uninstalled package.

Example:

sudo auto-apt run ./configure

This command will ask you to install the needed packages (It will call apt-get automatically) stopping the current process and continuing once the package is installed.

#5: ls[..]

List directory contents (Use a long listing format):

ls -l

#4: history[..]

Print recently used commands:

history

#3: ln[..]

Make links between files.

Example:

ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

This will create a symbolic link to ~/.vim/vimrc with the name .vimrc.

#2: find[..]

Search for files in a directory hierarchy.

Example:

find /tmp -name '*.mp3' -print | xargs /bin/rm -f

This code can be used to find all the mp3 files contained in or below the directory /tmp and delete them.

#1: grep[..]

Search using a pattern.

Example:

grep ­v 'Linux' /home/user/Desktop/file.txt

Use it to display all the lines that do not contain the word Linux in file.txt.