Linux Commands Examples
A great documentation place for Linux commands
Classified by relevance and popularity
busybox : The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
gnome-terminal : is a terminal emulation application.
watch : execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
locale : specific information.
startpar : start runlevel scripts in parallel
xargs : build and execute command lines from standard input
usermod : modify a user account
which : locate a command
fusermount : mount and unmount FUSE filesystems
chacl : change the access control list of a file or directory
killall5 : - send a signal to all processes.
pnmcomp : composite (overlay) two portable anymap files together
dir : list directory contents
kerneloops : program to collect and submit kernel oopses to kerneloops.org
alias :
cal : displays a calendar and the date of Easter
wipefs : wipe a filesystem signature from a device
fsck : check and repair a Linux filesystem
cp : copy files and directories
loadunimap : load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table
nmcli : – commandline tool for controlling NetworkManager
dialog : display dialog boxes from shell scripts
nohup : run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
rcc :
faillog : display faillog records or set login failure limits
ttfread :
lame : create mp3 audio files
avconv : avconv video converter
shasum : Print or Check SHA Checksums
sha1sum : compute and check SHA1 message digest
ss : another utility to investigate sockets
time : run programs and summarize system resource usage
mount.vboxsf : x86 virtualization solution
chcon : change file security context
pkexec : Execute a command as another user
setkeycodes : load kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries
hostname : show or set the system’s host name domainname - show or set the system’s NIS/YP domain name ypdomainname - show or set the system’s NIS/YP domain name nisdomainname - show or set the system’s NIS/YP domain name dnsdomainname - show the system’s DNS domain name
pidof : - find the process ID of a running program.
python2.7 : an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
passwd : change user password
dvdrip : GUI for copying DVDs
vlc-wrapper : a wrapper to drop priviledges with VLC
mawk : pattern scanning and text processing language
amidi : read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
iconv : Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another
setxkbmap : set the keyboard using the X Keyboard Extension
qmlmin :
mkfs.msdos : create an MS-DOS file system under Linux
mandb : create or update the manual page index caches
gst-launch-1.0 : build and run a GStreamer pipeline
combinediff : create a cumulative unified patch from two incremental patches
pm-powersave : Put your computer into low power mode
dd : convert and copy a file
ping : 6 send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
airtun-ng : a virtual tunnel interface creator for aircrack-ng
mkpasswd : Overfeatured front end to crypt(3)
ls : list directory contents
groupadd : create a new group
tty : print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input
stat : display file or file system status
rbash : restricted bash, see bash (1)
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
cancel : cancel jobs
swapoff : enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping
vorbistagedit : allows batch editing of vorbis comments with an editor
cpanp : The CPANPLUS launcher
visudo : edit the sudoers file
strace : trace system calls and signals
grub-install : install GRUB to a device
iptables-apply : a safer way to update iptables remotely
shuf : generate random permutations
nice : run a program with modified scheduling priority
ppmtosixel : convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format
printenv : print all or part of environment
apg : generates several random passwords
setsid : run a program in a new session
midi2ly : manual page for midi2ly (LilyPond) 2.16.0
loginctl : Control the systemd login manager
chsh : change login shell
a2ensite : enable or disable an apache2 site / virtual host
cut : remove sections from each line of files
install-sgmlcatalog : maintain transitional SGML catalog
mkfs.ext2 : create an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
arch : print machine hardware name (same as uname -m)
cweave : translate CWEB to C and/or TeX
find : search for files in a directory hierarchy
update-grub : stub for grub-mkconfig
zenity : display GTK+ dialogs
tload : graphic representation of system load average
lockfile-remove : command-line programs to safely lock and unlock files and mailboxes (via liblockfile).
rm : remove files or directories
adduser : add a user or group to the system
showrgb : display an rgb color-name database
a2dismod : enable or disable an apache2 module
dpkg-gensymbols : generate symbols files (shared library dependency information)
unlink : call the unlink function to remove the specified file
apache2ctl : Apache HTTP server control interface
chroot : run command or interactive shell with special root directory
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
resize : set environment and terminal settings to current xterm window size
uptime : Tell how long the system has been running.
grpconv : , grpunconv convert to and from shadow passwords and groups
find2perl : translate find command lines to Perl code