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7 Linux commands that every nerd must know!
You open a terminal for the first time! now what ?
Here are 7 Linux commands that every nerd must know!
1. pwd - Print Working Directory
The first thing you might ask yourself is “where am i ?” and pwd is your answer!
It stands for “print working directory”, it prints out the full path of the directory we are working on, And after finding out where you are, you might ask yourself “what’s in here ?“
2. ls - List
That’s where ls comes in, it stands for “list” and it just lists the files and folders, or directories, of the current working directory.
3. cp - Copy
Let’s say that after checking out what’s in the directory, you want to copy a file. cp which stands for “copy” is what you would use.
4. mkdir - Make Directory
But actually, I want the new file to be inside a folder called “backup”. To create a new directory or folder you use mkdir, it stands for “make directory”.
5. mv - Move
Now to move the copy into the folder, we use mv which stands for “move”.
6. cd - Change Directory
To check what’s inside the backup folder, we can either ls backup to list the content of the backup folder OR, cd which stands for “change directory” to backup then list it’s content using ls.
7. rm - Remove
But I don’t want to keep this file anymore so let’s delete it using rm which stands, as you can already tell, for “remove”.
And here we go! it got deleted
That’s our 7 linux commands!
Hope this helps, See ya!