MUST KNOW Linux Commands

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Continuing the Linux terminal basics series of videos we will quickly highlight some of the most important and commonly used commands within the Linux CLI environment. Let me know any input on moving this series forward!

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1. man (used for getting manuals for specific command For example man ls gets manual for ls command)
2. ping (used for checking connection)
3. cd (Changing your directories)
4. cat (list the content of the desired file)
5. nano (Simple Text editor , quick&fast)
6.*locate* (Searching through command line , has other options too)
7.*df* (Shows storage available and other things)
8.*alias* (Shortening or setting an alias for any command)
9.*exit* (Exits the terminal without a mouse)

s/o to Versatile Geniuses for the comment!

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[versatilegeniuses]

1. *man* (used for getting manuals for specific command For example *man ls* gets manual for ls command)
2. *ping* (used for checking connection)
3. *cd* (Changing your directories)
4. *cat* (list the content of the desired file)
5. *nano* (Simple Text editor, quick&fast)
6.*locate* (Searching through command line, has other options too)
7.*df* (Shows storage available and other things)
8.*alias* (Shortening or setting an alias for any command)
9.*exit* (Exits the terminal without a mouse)

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[spsharan]

Not necessarily "terminal commands" but

1) Control+D to exit and
2) Control+L to clear the terminal

are my most favorites

[walking_on_earth]

Nano is a nice simple text editor. I do have a recommendation for an upgrade which is micro. Micro is basically like nano but with mouse support, modern keybindings (like CTRL+S to save) and syntax highlighting. Even easier to use than nano and just as simple!

[Promontie]

Love the video Brandon!! This is my favourite channel by far. Thank you for doing what you do :)

[modembuddy]

Good stuff! Learned a few new ones as I'm exploring more on my system. Really appreciate your direct and uncomplicated approach.

[zed]

You’re an absolute star, your video was awesome please keep going and make more of these, I would call this quick learning.

[ptzzz]

I got a recommendation for this video (probably from watching some of your vids on DEs recently) and I'm thankful for it, simple and easy to understand. nano is my favorite of the ones shown.

[DeeperSoul]

This should be complete serie

Man keep it going up.

[LinkDragon]

Seriously I'm so glad I'm really learning how to use the terminal like this, it's so much faster to open the files you want to edit or just get to the directory you need to if you just know how to do it with the commands!

[rbartig]

I like the direction you're going with this, but there's a lot of videos doing the same thing. Perhaps kicking it up a notch and doing a video on mid-level Linux commands and/or advanced Linux commands.

[StormWarningMom]

I learned some things. And yes, please make more of these vids. Nothing wrong with expanding our knowledge of the command line.

[tsesangdolkar]

Thank you for the super tutorial, to the point and very easy to understand.

[malikrimzan]

Extremely useful video for new Linux users like me. Thanks Brandon!

[theproudlinuxer]

That beautiful sound when you hit a key more than a few times 🤩🤣

[JD-kgmx]

Great video. I appreciate the lesson, thanks.

[glenlinux]

Great vid Brandon, definetly more Linux command tutorials plaease

[KuruGDI]

Videos like this one are very useful in my opinion to _educate_ new Linux users on what a command does in the terminal. It's very dangerous to simply copy and run some argument from some website in the terminal. But what you want to do if you want to fix something and have no idea what the code in the terminal does.
Also a word on distro specific commands (eg. Deb vs. Arch) would be interesting.

[johnnybelivin]

I'm new. This is very useful. So many guides online are like "uncomment this line" without explaining how to uncomment or whether they were using nano or vim. Super annoying and took me way to long to figure out.

[schwons]

I personally replaced ls with exa and cat with bat. Both basically do the same thing as the original but are generally more nicely formatted and have some neat extra features.

[courier]

Please make more of this videos.awesome...