Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Some Usefull LINUX Commands

Dear All,
I am listing some linux commands which can help you to get arround Linux (RHEL 5)

Command Uses

clear Clearing the screen

date To see The current date and time

date 12923202009 Sets the time and date to 9-Dec-09 11:20 PM

cal display current month calendar

cal 2010 display calendar for 2010

pwd your current location in system

cat filename show the contect of the file specified, on the screen

head filename show the first 10 lines of the file specified, on the screen

tail filename show the last 10 lines of the file specified, on the screen

rm filename Removes a file

rm -rf Dirname deletes NON-Empty directory

rmdir Dirname removes a EMPTY dir

locate filename finds all files matching the filename (you are required to run updatedb before running this command)

find / -name filename search for the file in the system

cd location changing directory to the specified location

EX: cd /etc

seq 100 display a count from 1 to 100 on screen

man commandname To get help on the specified command

chvt 3 switching to CUI tty3 from GUI terminal window