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Shell Commands 1

The document provides an overview of basic shell commands for listing, moving around, and manipulating files and directories in a Linux file system. It covers commands for listing directory contents, navigating directories, creating/copying/moving/deleting files and directories, viewing file contents, editing files, checking file sizes, changing file permissions and ownership.

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Shell Commands 1

The document provides an overview of basic shell commands for listing, moving around, and manipulating files and directories in a Linux file system. It covers commands for listing directory contents, navigating directories, creating/copying/moving/deleting files and directories, viewing file contents, editing files, checking file sizes, changing file permissions and ownership.

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Basic Shell Commands

1) Listing Directory Contents


ls Display all files and folders in the current directory
ls -a Displays all files including hidden
ls -l Display all files along with size and time stamp

ls -ltr Display in long listing format with timestamp in reverse order 2

2) Moving around the file system


pwd Displays the "present working directory"

cd Changes current directory to "HOME" directory

cd desktop Looks for a directory name desktop in the current working


directory and changes to that 3

cd /home/cloudera Changes current directory to /home/cloudera

3) Create a directory
mkdir dezyre Creates a directory dezyre in the current directory

4) Create a copy of file in same directory


cp file1 file2 Creates a copy of file1 in the same directory with name file2 4

5) Create a copy of file in different directory


cp file1 backup/file2 Creates a copy of file in directory /backup with
name file2

6) Rename a file
mv file1 newfile Renames file1 to newfile 5

7) Move file from one directory to another


mv file1 backup/file2 Moves the file1 from current directory into
subdirectory backup with name file2 - file1 will no longer exist in the current
directory

8) Delete a file
rm file1 Deletes file1 from current directory 6

9) Delete an empty directory


rmdir backup Deletes directory backup only if its empty

10) Delete a directory with files


rm -r dezyre Deletes dezyre and all its files and subfolders 7

11) Viewing files


cat file1 Will display contents of file1 on screen

more file1 Used to display the contents of a large file (ENTER = one line
down; SPACE = page down; q=Quit)
head file or head -2 file Will display the first few lines of a file or if -2 is
given - will display the top 2 lines

tail file or tail -2 file Will display the last few lines of a file or if -2 is
mentioned - will display the last 2 lines 8

12) Editing files


vi file1 Will open vi editor to editor to edit file (:q = Quit; :wq = Write and
Quit;

For vi commands - you can refer to links below


http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cslab/vi.html
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/vi.html
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix/unix-vi-editor.htm 9

13) Size of files


du -h dezyre/

du -h dezyre/*

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14) Change group of file/directory


Create a group dezyre_group and a user dezyre_user

sudo addgroup dezyre_group

sudo adduser --ingroup dezyre_group dezyre_user

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Group for sales.txt is cloudera


Change Group for sales.txt to dezyre_group

sudo chgrp dezyre_group sales.txt

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15) Change file/directory permissions


chmod 777 sales.txt 13

16) Change owner


The owner and group of file employee.txt is cloudera.

sudo chown dezyre_user:dezyre_group employee.txt

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