Text file commands
More text commands.
Utilities
More Utilities
Directories
100
The command that displays the user manual.
What is man?
100
Displays the contents of a text file in order by lines.
What is sort?
100
Command that displays the current date and time in a terminal session.
What is date?
100
Utility that changes the name of a file without making a copy.
What is mv?
100
Command to create a directory.
What is mkdir?
200
The command that displays the contents of a text file.
What is cat?
200
Removes duplicate lines from a text file.
What is uniq?
200
A command to gain root privileges.
What is su?
200
Command that displays the current working directory.
What is pwd?
200
Command to delete a directory.
What is rmdir
300
Utility to show a text file one screen at a time.
What is either more or less?
300
Takes the standard output of one process and redirects it to become standard input of another process.
What is a pipe?
300
Command to list the names of files in a directory.
What is ls?
300
A shortcut to the user's home directory.
What is ~?
300
The root directory, present in all Linux systems.
What is /?
400
Displays the first 10 lines of a text file.
What is head?
400
Special files that contain information about the locations of other files.
What are directories?
400
Command to remove a file.
What is rm?
400
Lists the users logged in to the current Linux system.
What is w?
400
The static location of the boot loader files.
What is /boot?
500
Displays the last 10 lines of a text file.
What is tail?
500
GNU Network Object Model Environment.
What was the origin of the term GNOME?
500
Utility that makes a copy of a file.
What is cp?
500
Sets who has read, write and execute permissions for a specific file.
What is chmod?
500
Location of all of the files that represent hardware devices.
What is /dev?
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