Linux Commands Examples
A great documentation place for Linux commands
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strace : trace system calls and signals
MAKEDEV : create devices
busybox : The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
startpar : start runlevel scripts in parallel
find : search for files in a directory hierarchy
killall5 : - send a signal to all processes.
javap : The Java Class File Disassembler Disassembles class files.
sha1sum : compute and check SHA1 message digest
msgunfmt : uncompile message catalog from binary format
loadunimap : load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table
view : Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor
time : run programs and summarize system resource usage
insmod : Simple program to insert a module into the Linux Kernel
ps2ps : , eps2eps Ghostscript PostScript "distiller"
gawk : pattern scanning and processing language
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
x86_64-linux-gnu-g++-4.7 : GNU project C and C++ compiler
gst-launch-1.0 : build and run a GStreamer pipeline
ncurses5-config : helper script for ncurses libraries
ppmtosixel : convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format
passwd : change user password
avconv : avconv video converter
airtun-ng : a virtual tunnel interface creator for aircrack-ng
mawk : pattern scanning and text processing language
kmk : framework for writing simple makefiles for complex tasks
glib-compile-resources : GLib resource compiler
pdb2.7 : the Python debugger
ls : list directory contents
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
python3.3m : an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
lame : create mp3 audio files
cweave : translate CWEB to C and/or TeX
kmk_sed : framework for writing simple makefiles for complex tasks
setkeycodes : load kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries
python3.2mu : an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
kjs : KDE ECMAScript compatible interpreter
telnet : user interface to the TELNET protocol
python3.2 : an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
mysql_client_test : _embedded test client API for embedded server
ipcmk : create various ipc resources
xargs : build and execute command lines from standard input
add-apt-repository : Adds a repository into the /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d or removes an existing one
arch : print machine hardware name (same as uname -m)
nmcli : – commandline tool for controlling NetworkManager
stdbuf : Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams.
ping : 6 send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
javaws : a Java Web Start client
iconv : Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another
gst-inspect-1.0 : print info about a GStreamer plugin or element
update-grub : stub for grub-mkconfig
irb1.8 : interactive ruby
watch : execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
mysqlaccess : client for checking access privileges
xmllint : command line XML tool
kerneloops : program to collect and submit kernel oopses to kerneloops.org
diff3 : compare three files line by line
mysql_upgrade : check and upgrade MySQL tables
chcon : change file security context
nohup : run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
cal : displays a calendar and the date of Easter
scriptreplay : play back typescripts, using timing information