Common commands
Basic Utilities
ls-- direcory listingrm-- Remove (delete) file(s)mv-- Move (rename) fileemacs-- A text editor (and the rest)tar-- Archiving utilitytar xf filename.tar-- Unpack an archivetar zxf filename.tar.gz-- Unpack a compressed archivetar cf filename.tar myDirectory-- Create an archive containing all the files in myDirectory
gzip-- A compression/decompression utilitygrep-- Search for a string (actually a "regular expression") within filesmore-- Display text a page at a timefind-- Find files matching certain criteriased-- Stream editorfile-- Identify type of file
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