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passwd
Used to change your password on the system
chfn
Used to change information displayed by the finger command
uptime
Used to check since last system reboot and system load
top
Used to see what programs are currently running (live)
ps or ps aux
Used to get a snapshot of running processes -aux for Linux systems
whoami
Used to see what your login name is
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For Vista and Windows 7 users, omit the RUN command and type CMD directly
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who
Used to see who is logged in who t will show where they are logged in from
ls
Used to show your files and directories ls l will show the attributes of each file and directory
cd
Used to change directories cd will return you to your home directory cd /tmp will change to the temp directory cd public_html will change to your public_html directory (where your web files will live)
mkdir
Used to make a directory
rmdir
Used to delete a directory
cat
Display the contents of a file w/o pausing
more
Display the contents a file pausing every screen
nano
Editor used to view, create or modify files Know some of the common editing commands CTRL & X to save and exit a file CTRL & O to save and continue editing CTRL K to delete a line CTRL U to undelete the last deletion
ping
Check to see if a host is alive and responding ping bluejay.creighton.edu or ping 147.134.144.2
nslookup or dig
Used to see if a domain is available Is your lastname available?
traceroute or tracert
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df
Used to check to see how much disk space is free on the system. Use df h to see it in a more readable format.
du
Used to check to see how much disk space you are using on the system. Use du h to see it in a more readable format. | Unix pipe command used to send output to another program
man
Short for manual it is the help system. For example, man ping will show you how to use the ping command, and its parameters.
mail
email the command For example: mail s subject line recipient
sort
sort by first character of each line For example: ps aux | sort
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