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Basic Linux Commands Our Trainer Explained the Brief Introduction About Basic Linux Commands.

pwd — When you first open the terminal, you are in the home directory of your user.
 ls — Use the "ls" command to know what files are in the directory you are in. You can see all the hidden files by using the command “ls -a”
 cd — Use the "cd" command to go to a directory. For example, if you are in the home folder, and you want to go to the downloads folder, then you can type in“cd Downloads”. 
mkdir & rmdir — Use the mkdir command when you need to create a folder or a directory. 
 rm - Use the rm command to delete files and directories.  Use "rm -r" to delete just the directory. It deletes both the folder and the files it contains when using only the rm command.
touch — The touch command is used to create a file. It can be anything, from an empty txt file to an empty zip file
man & --help — To know more about a command and how to use it, use the man command.
cp — Use the cp command to copy files through the command line.
mv — Use the mv command to move files through the command line. We can also use the mv command to rename a file.
locate — The locate command is used to locate a file in a Linux system, just like the search command in Windows. 
echo — The "echo" command helps us move some data, usually text into a file. 
cat — Use the cat command to display the contents of a file. It is usually used to easily view programs.
nano, vi, jed — nano and vi are already installed text editors in the Linux command line.
sudo — A widely used command in the Linux command line, sudo stands for "SuperUser Do". 
df — Use the df command to see the available disk space in each of the partitions in your system.
du — Use du to know the disk usage of a file in your system. 
tar — Use tar to work with tarballs (or files compressed in a tarball archive) in the Linux command line. 
zip, unzip — Use zip to compress files into a zip archive, and unzip to extract files from a zip archive.
uname — Use uname to show the information about the system your Linux distro is running. 

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