Basic Linux Commands

Basic Linux commands

Most of the Linux users should knows the use of basic Linux commands or Linux commands, they are using different commands daily, but windows people they are scared about theses much of commands, if any one saying about Linux their mind will first goes to how we remember all these commands? If you used to see theses commands it will be very easy. For our daily needs these commands are very useful to us. Linux is basically a command oriented operating system, from the starting of Linux it is fully controlled by commands, Now we can see the developed versions of various distributions in Linux, mainly the graphical user interfaces (GUI), for easy usage and graphical visualization.

Here i am introducing some basic commands, for beginners.

pwd : present working directory.

This command will list where we are now?

ls : This command is listing all files and folders.

cd : This command is used for changing the directory,

Ex : cd Directory name

cd - : Switch to previous directory

mkdir : Make directory

Ex : mkdir Directory name

rm -r : Remove directory

Ex: rm -r Directory name

rm -rf : Remove directory Forcefully

chmod : Change the permission of files and folders

Ex: chmod 777 -R dirname