Can Anybody Tell me Some Linux Commands.?

3 Comments

1. griz803 says:

   6. February 2010 at 19:40

   Don’t forget the holy command of knowing switches: man
   short for manual it will bring up verbose help on any command so that all options are viewable. Also, find the HOW-TO s on your system and read what you need.
2. rob says:

   6. February 2010 at 19:40

   I use Ubuntu as well but I don’t install any software. Check their website. You may find some answers there.

   As far as commands go, here are a few:

   To rename a file in the same directory:

   mv filename.html filenamenew.html

   To copy a file to a new directory:
   cp filename.html directory/filename.html

   To delete a file:
   rm filename.html

   To delete a directory:
   rmdir directory

   To create a directory
   mkdir foldername

   You’ll find much more here:
   http://www.ss64.com/bash/
3. mbishop1113 says:

   6. February 2010 at 19:40

   Ubuntu is a debian distro and rpm will not work with it unless you use a converter to switch between rpm and dpkg. There is a link below to a converter (I wouldn’t really recommend converting rpm’s to dpkg’s). You can usually find the same rpm package as a dpkg. Tar.gz (tarballs) are similar to zip files with Windows and Winzip. Man tar and look at all the switches. You’ll probably use something like this the most: tar -xvf filename.tar. That will verbosely extract filename.tar