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Linux Commands, with command, category, description, and example.

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ID Command Category Description Example
1 ls File List directory contents ls -la
2 cd File Change the current working directory cd /var/log
3 pwd File Print the current working directory pwd
4 cp File Copy files and directories cp file.txt backup.txt
5 mv File Move or rename files and directories mv old.txt new.txt
6 rm File Remove files or directories rm -rf build
7 mkdir File Create directories mkdir -p src/utils
8 rmdir File Remove empty directories rmdir olddir
9 touch File Create an empty file or update its timestamp touch notes.txt
10 ln File Make links between files ln -s target link
11 cat Text Concatenate and print file contents cat file.txt
12 less Text View file contents one page at a time less bigfile.log
13 head Text Output the first part of a file head -n 20 file.txt
14 tail Text Output the last part of a file tail -f app.log
15 echo Text Display a line of text echo Hello
16 wc Text Count lines, words, and bytes in a file wc -l file.txt
17 sort Text Sort lines of text sort names.txt
18 uniq Text Report or omit repeated adjacent lines uniq -c file.txt
19 cut Text Remove sections from each line of a file cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
20 sed Text Stream editor for filtering and transforming text sed "s/foo/bar/g" file.txt
21 awk Text Pattern scanning and text processing language awk "{print $1}" file.txt
22 diff Text Compare files line by line diff a.txt b.txt
23 tee Text Read from input and write to output and files ls | tee out.txt
24 grep Search Search text for lines matching a pattern grep -r "error" .
25 find Search Search for files in a directory hierarchy find . -name "*.txt"

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