command - Description

Examples:

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mv - Move file or Rename file

Examples:

mv sourceFile destinationFile
mv sourceFile destinationLocation
mv myFile.txt myFolder/

cp - Copy file or folder

Examples:

cp filename.cpp myCopy.cpp
cp -r myFolder/ myNewFolder

• cp (folder and individual files) Examples: cp file1 destination_directory

• rm (file and directories) rm = removes files rm -r removes directory and contents Examples: rm file1 file2 file3 rm -r dir1 dir2

• rmdir rmdir= removes directories Examples: rmdir directory_sample

• ln -s ln -s makes a soft link of the file which allows you to access that file via another name. Example: ln -s myfile mysoftlink

• scp

• pwd pwd= prints the name of the current directory. Exmaple: pwd output: /cs215

• ls (hidden files and files starting or ending with specific patterns like all files ending in txt or all files starting with the letter b) ls -a =show all files including hidden files Example: ls -a output: folder folder2 .hiddenfolder ls-l = shows file attributes.

• tar tar= saves many files to the same destination

• curl curl= Curl is similiar to wget except that it writes to the standard output.

• wget Downloads data to a file from a url. Example: wget http://www.yahoo.com 17:15:52 (220.8 KB/s)- 'index.html' saved[3020]

• scp

• rsync

• cat cat = cat displays the text in a file to the screen. Example: cat words.txt This is the text in the file words.txt.

• sort sort= sorts the information alphabetically or numerically. example: sort list_numbers output: 4 6 7 9

• uniq uniq= prints the uniq words in a file or can be used to count the duplicates. Example: uniq text.txt output: alpha beta gamma

• grep grep= searches for a certain word and can save the words to a file.