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+Linux Commands
+What are some basic Linux commands?
+Below you will find a list of basic Linux commands.
+
+ls      Show files and folder in the current folder
+cp      Copy files from one location to another, ex. cp filename newdir/filename
+less    Opens a textfile in read-only, ex less filename
+cd ..   Changes directory - one level lower. If you use cd /folder name - it will change directory to that folder.
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+
+Commonly-Used SGE Commands
+qsub    Submit a Job
+qstat   Determine the Status of a Job
+qdel    Cancel a job
+qhold   Place a hold on a queued job to prevent it from running
+qrls    Release a job held with qhold
+qhost   Display Node Information
+qmon    An X-Windows interface to SGE commands
+
+Here are more with links to the syntax:
+A
+alias Create your own name for a command
+arch print machine architecture
+ash ash command interpreter (shell)
+awk (gawk) pattern scanning and processing language
+
+
+B
+basename Remove directory and suffix from a file name
+bash GNU Bourne-Again Shell
+bsh Command interpreter (Shell)
+bc Command line calculator
+bunzip2 Unzip .bz2 files
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+
+C
+cat Concatenate a file print it to the screen
+chgrp Change the group designation of a file
+chmod Change file permissions
+chown Change the owner of a file
+cjpeg Compress an image file to a JPEG file
+clear Clear terminal screen (command line)
+comm Compare two sorted files
+stty cooked Formatting the display of text in a terminal
+cp Copy command
+cpio Copy files to and from archives
+csh C Shell
+cut Print selected parts of lines to standard output
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+
+D
+date Display date and time
+dc Command line calculator
+df Show amount of disk space free
+diff Determine difference between two files
+diff3 Determine difference between 3 files
+dig Interrogate DNS name servers
+djpeg Decompress a JPEG file to an image file
+dmesg Print or control the kernel ring buffer (print out bootup messages)
+dnsdomainname Show the system's DNS domain name
+doexec Run an executable with an arbitrary argv
+domainname Show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
+dos2unix Converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format
+du Show disk useage
+dumpkeys Write keyboard driver's translation tables to std output
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+
+E
+echo Display a line of text
+ed Line-oriented text editor
+egrep Print lines matching a pattern
+elinks A text mode WWW browser (supports frames)
+env Dislay the path
+ex Start Vim in ex mode
+eject Eject media from device ( command line )
+
+
+F
+factor Display prime factors of a number
+false Exit with a status code indicating failure
+fdisk The fdisk command with usage examples
+fgrep Variant of grep
+find Find a file
+finger Displays information about the system users
+fixps Try to fix common PostScript problems that break postprocessing
+free Display free memory
+
+
+G 
+grep Search for a pattern using regular expression
+gtar See the tar command
+gunzip Unzip .gz files
+gzip Compress using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77)
+
+
+H 
+halt Stop the system
+hdparm Get/set harddisk parameters
+head Print the first 10 lines of a file to standard output
+hostname Show or set the system's host name
+history Display entire command history
+HISTSIZE Change history size
+httpd Start Apache
+
+
+I 
+identify Describes the format and characteristics of image files.
+id Print information for username, or the current user
+ifconfig Display network and hardware addresses
+igawk Gawk with include files
+ipcalc Calculate IP information for a host
+
+
+K
+kbd_mode Report or set the keyboard mode (RAW, MEDI- UMRAW or XLATE)
+kill Terminate a process
+
+
+L 
+last Show listing of last logged in users
+lastlog Formats and prints the contents of the last login log /var/log/lastlog file
+link Call the link function to create a link to a file
+links See elinks
+ln Create a link to the specified TARGET with optional LINK_NAME
+loadkeys Load keyboard translation tables
+locate Locate a file
+login Sign on
+look Displays any lines in file which contain "string" as a prefix.
+ls List directory contents
+lsmod List loaded kernel modules
+lynx Command to start the Lynx browser
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+
+M
+mac2unix Converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format
+mail A mail processing system, which has a command syntax like ed
+man Display a particular manual entry
+manweb Manweb is part of the Netpbm package
+mdu Display the amount of space occupied by an MSDOS directory
+mkdir Create a directory
+mkfs Make a filesystem on a drive
+mknod Make block or character special files
+mktemp Make temporary filename (unique)
+more Page through text one screenful at a time.
+mount Mount a filesystem/device
+mt Control magnetic tape drive operation
+mv Move and / or rename files
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+: 
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+N
+namei Follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
+nano An enhanced free Pico clone
+nc arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens
+(note that nc is also called the client interface
+to the NEdit program but it is not the
+command that invokes nedit-nc on current systems)
+ncftp Browser program for the File Transfer Protocol
+nedit-nc nedit-nc is the client interface to the NEdit text editor
+netstat Display verbose info about network processes and ports
+nice Run a command with modified priority
+nisdomainname Show or set system's NIS/YP domain name
+nslookup query internet domain name servers
+
+
+P
+paste Merge lines of files
+pdf2dsc Generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document
+pdf2ps Convert PDF file "input.pdf" to PostScript(tm) in "output.ps"
+pdfinfo Print contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful information) from a PDF file
+pdftotext Convert pdf files to plain text
+perl (start) Practical Extraction and Report Language
+pgawk The profiling version of gawk
+pico Text editor that comes with Pine (from the University of Washington)
+pine Email program used by The University of Washington
+ping6 Ping
+ping Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
+pinky A lightweight 'finger' program;
+pr Format for printing
+ps Processes running
+ps2ascii Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
+ps2epsi Generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript
+ps2frag Obsolete shell script for the PSfrag system
+ps2pdf12 Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3 and later compatible) using ghostscript
+ps2pdf13 Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4 and later compatible) using ghostscript
+ps2pdf14 Use ps2pdfwr: Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying Compatibility Level, using ghostscript
+ps2pdf Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
+ps2pdfwr Convert PostScript to PDF without specifying Compatibility Level, using ghostscript
+ps2pk creates a TeX pkfont from a type1 PostScript font
+ps2ps ps2ps uses gs to convert PostScript(tm) file "input.ps" to simpler and (usually) faster PostScript in "output.ps"
+psbook Rearranges pages from a PostScript document into "signatures" for printing books or booklets
+pwd Print Working Directory
+
+
+Q
+quota display disk usage and limits
+
+
+R
+resize Xterm window size
+readelf Displays information about ELF files
+reboot Stop the system, poweroff, reboot
+red red is a restricted ed: it can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands
+rename Rename files
+rmdir Remove a directory
+rm Remove files or directories
+rpm rpm command options
+rundig Sample script to create a search database for ht://Dig
+rview The GUI version of Vim in easy mode with restrictions
+rvi Vi / Vim editor
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+S
+sed Stream editor
+setfont Load EGA/VGA console screen font
+set gid Set group id
+set serial Get / set Linux serial port info
+set uid Set user id
+sfdisk Modified fdisk program
+sftp Secure file transfer protocol (ftp)
+sh Shell (BASH)
+shred Safely remove data from disk drive
+sleep Delay for a specified amount of time
+slocate Security Enhanced version of the GNU Locate
+sort Sort lines of a text file
+ssh Secure shell connection command
+stty change and print terminal line settings
+stty raw Unformatted output to terminal
+su Become super user ( root )
+switchdesk Graphical and text mode interface for choosing desktop environment
+sync Force changed blocks to disk, update the super block
+ssh Secure shell connection command
+
+
+T
+tail Print the last 10 Lines of a file standard output
+tar Create an Archive
+tcsh Enhanced completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell, csh
+tee Copy standard input to each file, and also to standard output
+telnet User interface to the telnet protocol
+time Run the specified program command with the given arguments
+touch Change file timestamps
+tracepath6 See tracepath
+tracepath Trace path to a network host discovering MTU along this path
+traceroute6 See traceroute
+traceroute Print the route packets take to network host
+tree Display file tree
+true Exit with a status code indicating success
+tty Print name of terminal connected to standard output
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+
+U
+umask File creation mask / Bash builtins
+umount Detache file system(s) mentioned from file hierarchy
+uname Print system information ( kernel version )
+unicode_start Put keyboard and console into Unicode (UTF-8) mode
+unicode_stop Undo the effect of unicode_start
+unlink Call the unlink function to remove the specified file
+uniq Remove duplicate lines from sorted file
+updatedb Update the slocate database
+unset gid Group id change
+unset uid User id change
+untar Unarchive ( untar ) a file
+unzip Unzip .zip files
+useradd Add new user
+users Output who is currently logged in according to system records
+usleep Sleep a given number of microseconds. default is 1
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+V
+view Start vim in read-only mode
+vi Start the vi editor
+
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+W
+w Show who is logged on and what they are doing
+wc Word count of a file
+wget Non-interactive download of files from the Web
+whatis Search the whatis database for complete words (command names)
+whereis Locate a command or file
+which Find command path
+whoami Print effective userid
+who show who is logged on
+whois Client for the whois service
+
+
+X,Y,Z
+xinit Start Xserver
+xpdf Portable Document Format (PDF) file viewer for X windows
+xrandr Change resolution running Xwindows ( command line )
+ypdomainname show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
+zcat Compress or expand files
+zip Compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, Windows NT, Minix,
+Atari and Macintosh, Amiga and Acorn RISC OS. It is analogous to a
+combination of the UNIX commands tar(1) and compress(1) and is
+compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katz’s ZIP for MSDOS
+systems)
+zipinfo List detailed information about a ZIP archive