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Basic Linux command line tutorial to start

developing in Ubuntu Linux
Syed Monowarul Islam
Sep 18, 2018 · 4 min read

This article is meant to give you a basic idea about Linux command line codes . By
reading this you will learn how to navigate through Linux directories , create a
directory or file as well as some common methodologies used in Linux .Because I use
Windows I am going to show you the Linux commands by opening “Ubuntu on
Windows”.

Clear the terminal screen:

clear

cleans the terminal .

Directory navigation
See the location of the pointer :

pwd

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Show contents of folder :

ls

Move up:

cd ..

Move to specific folder :

cd folderName

navigating

In the above scenario I used pwd,ls and cd to illustrate how we can move from from
one folder to another.

Move to root:

cd /

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Show all files (hidden also):

ls -a

See all files and also details :

ls -l

ls -l provides us with details about the contents of the folder

In the privilege section of the owner section we can see that drwxr is written it means :

first letter is “-”for File, d for Directory, l for Link

r — read

w — The file can be modified (write/delete/edit)

x — execute

Changing permissions of a file or folder is a different topic altogether .We will skip that
in this article.
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mkdir directoryName

delete

rm -r directoryName
rm nameOfFile
rmdir directoryName

created and deleed a directory

rm -r is used when the directory is not empty.

make a file

touch f.txt

Open with an editor :

(I will open the file using vscode)

being in the same directory as file you want to open type:

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another important thing you want is the use of tab button. when writing long
filenames press tab and it will suggest names that exist in the directory.

see contents of a text file in the terminal :

cat f.txt

this helps when you need to look inside a small file.to see larger files use :

less f.txt

quit pressing “q”.

Renaming a file :

mv f.txt newName

rename

copy a file :

cp newName.txt copied.txt
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new le is created with the same contents of the old one

locating a file/folder:

which fileName/foldername

it outputs the path .

see what commands you used upto 500 :

history

update Ubuntu :

sudo apt-get update

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it didnt work the rst time

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sudo means super user do .

See network information :

ifconfig

ping a website :

ping google.com

see own os information :

uname -a

See system usage data :

top

See disk space :

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Install software :

sudo apt-get install Name

Remove/uninsall :

sudo apt-get remove Name

Restart computer :

sudo reboot

Shutdown Computer : (try anyone)

sudo shutdown -h now

sudo poweroff

. . .

This is by no means a comprehensive tutorial . My target was to introduce you to the

commands that will start you off . For further reading you can explore here .

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