Last year, just 4 days ago, we said goodbye with a post about Basic commands for newbies to GNU/Linux Distros based on Debian and Ubuntu. Therefore, today we will continue with a similar one to continue contributing practical and current content for themselves, that is, newbies and beginners.
Consequently, today's post, in this first part of this 2023 post series, we will address only some generic linux commands that work under almost any GNU / Linux Operating System.
And, before starting this post about the Part from our series of Useful “basic Linux commands” for newbies in 2023, we recommend that you then explore the following related contents:
Basic commands in Linux by 2023: Part One
Part One on Useful Linux Commands for Newbies – 2023
Commands to access files
pwd
- Shows the directory location where we are currently located.ls
- Shows the list of files and directories contained within a specified directory.cd
– Allows us to change from the current directory to another.mkdir
– Allows you to create a new directory.touch
- Allows you to create a new file or change the last access/modification date of a file.cp
– Allows you to copy files or directories.mv
– Allows you to move files or directories. And even change the name if necessary.rm
– Allows you to delete files or directories.rmdir
– Allows you to delete a single directory, as long as it is empty.cat
- Display the content of any type of file on the screen.head
– Displays the first few lines of a file. To do this, the number to be displayed must be specified.tail
– Displays the last lines of a file. To do this, the number to be displayed must be specified.less
– It is a file reading tool that allows you to search within the content interactively.more
– A file reading tool that allows you to search within the content interactively.grep
– Search tool used to search for strings in files or other command output.
Note: Click on the name of each command in case you want to know more about it. When doing so, the corresponding link to its official section will be opened in the Debian GNU/Linux Manpages, in Spanish, and failing that, in English.
Summary
In short, we hope you like and use this new Fast guide de «Basic Linux Commands for 2023 – Part One». In addition, that it complements those previous and new publications that we are doing on the use of shell scripting. And, if anyone knows any other useful and frequent terminal command, capable of being useful to a novice or beginner, that it can go in this category, it will be a pleasure to meet you through the comments, for the knowledge and enjoyment of all. Since later, we will address other commands in other categories of use.
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