GNU / Linux Basic operating systemSerra, JordiJimenez, DavidMas, JordiSanchezMontanes, JoaquinRamos, SofiaVinas, RogerLinas, Francesc
Thepwdcommand is your Linux system's compass, in that it tells you where you are. It has no other function than supplying that bit of information to you. Try the following, and you will see that you're in your home directory, which is shown in the format/home/<username>: $ pwd /h...
While most Linux distributions are user-friendly and come with an easy to use graphical interface, knowing how to use the command line can be very useful. The command line gives you more power over your system and access to features that are not available through a graphical interface. In th...
In the Linux world, most work is accomplished from a CLI. One of our main tasks is to manage file content. To accomplish this, we need a tool to edit fil...
If you using a Linux or Mac based Operating System, you don’t need a client like PuTTY as Linux has its own SSH terminal. You just need to use the following command to connect to the server: ssh user@serverip This command will connect you to a server whose IP address is “serverip...
In Linux, we often need to make files executable to run them. To solve this issue, you can run this command in your terminal: chmod+x filename The executable can be run as: ./filename Also read:Bash Tips and Tricks to Work Smarter in the Terminal ...
This is our ongoing Linux command series where we are going to review how we can usechkconfigcommand efficiently with it’s available parameters. TheChkconfigcommand tool allows to configure services start and stop automatically in the/etc/rd.d/init.dscripts through command line. Let’s see so...
The wc (word count) command in Linux operating system is used to find out the number of new lines, word count, byte and characters count in a file indicated by the file parameters.wc [options] filenames. $ wc –l readme.txtShows the result as - 120 readme.txt...
Exploring the Linux File System It’s time to play around with the command line. For starters, typepwd, which means print working directory: pi@raspberry:~ $pwd/home/pi The output is/home/pi. Forward slashes are always used to indicate folders and files within other folders. In this case...
Below you’ll find a list of some basic yet useful Linux commands for the command line interface (i.e., the shell), which is the interface provided by users to interact with services and programs provided by the operating system kernel. ...