Professional Documents
Culture Documents
uname -a =>Displaylinux system information chmod octal file-name =>Change the permissions of file to octal
uname -r =>Display kernel release information Example
uptime =>Show how long the system has been running + load chmod 777 /data/test.c =>Set rwx permission for owner,group,world
hostname =>Show system host name chmod 755 /data/test.c =>Set rwx permission for owner,rx for group
hostname -i =>Display the IP address of the host and world
last reboot =>Show system reboot history chown owner-user file =>Change owner of the file
date =>Show the current date and time chown owner-user:owner-group file-name =>Change owner and group
cal =>Show this month calendar owner of the file
w =>Display who is online chown owner-user:owner-group directory =>Change owner and group
whoami =>Who you are logged in as owner of the directory
finger user =>Display information about user
NETWORK
HARDWARE
ip addr show =>Display all network interfaces and ip address
(a iproute2 command,powerful than ifconfig)
dmesg =>Detected hardware and boot messages
ip address add 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 =>Set ip address
cat /proc/cpuinfo =>CPU model
ethtool eth0 =>Linux tool to show ethernet status
cat /proc/meminfo =>Hardware memory
mii-tool eth0 =>Linux tool to show ethernet status
cat /proc/interrupts
=>Lists the number of interrupts per CPU per I/O device ping host =>Send echo request to test connection
lshw =>Displays information on hardware configuration of whois domain =>Get who is information for domain
the system dig domain =>Get DNS information for domain
lsblk =>Displays block device related information in Linux dig -x host =>Reverse lookup host
free -m =>Used and free memory (-m for MB) host google.com =>Lookup DNS ip address for the name
lspci -tv =>Show PCI devices hostname i =>Lookup local ip address
lsusb -tv =>Show USB devices wget file =>Download file
dmidecode =>Show hardware info from the BIOS netstat -tupl =>Listing all active listening ports
hdparm -i /dev/sda =>Show info about disk sda
hdparm -tT /dev/sda =>Do a read speed test on disk sda COMPRESSION / ARCHIVES
badblocks -s /dev/sda =>Test for unreadable blocks on disk sda
tar cf home.tar home =>Create tar named home.tar containing home/
USERS tar xf file.tar =>Extract the files from file.tar
tar czf file.tar.gz files =>Create a tar with gzip compression
id =>Show the active user id with login and group gzip file =>Compress file and renames it to file.gz
last =>Show last logins on the system
who =>Show who is logged on the system INSTALL PACKAGE
groupadd admin =>Add group "admin"
useradd -c "Sam Tomshi" =>g admin -m sam #Create user "sam" rpm -i pkgname.rpm =>Install rpm based package
userdel sam =>Delete user sam rpm -e pkgname =>Remove package
adduser sam =>Add user "sam"
usermod =>Modify user information INSTALL FROM SOURCE