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User
Informative
Networking/Mostly
Interactive/mostly
100
This is the Bash command I would use to change directories
What is cd
100
This command will allow me to switch users
What is "su"
100
This Bash command is a lot like Windows task manager
What is top
100
this command is a a dns lookup tool
What is dig
100
this command will shut down or stop a process
What is kill
200
This command will print my working directory
What is pwd
200
This is why a " - " is added to a switch user command
What is to move to that users home directory
200
This Bash command will list all of the processes running on a system
What is ps
200
this command will tell you what ports are open and listening on a server
What is netstat
200
This command will delete a file
What is rm
300
this command will list the contents of a directory with various information about the files.
What is ls
300
This command will tell you who else is logged onto the system
What is who
300
If you only know this one command you can use it to find out how all of the others work
What is man
300
this command is very old and one of the first commands to ever send email
What is telnet
300
this command will move and or rename a file
What is mv
400
This flag for the "ls" command sorts the output according to file modification time
What is -t
400
This command will allow me to see who was recently on the computer.
What is last
400
this command will show disk usage
What is df
400
I can use this command to find my IP address
What is ifconfig or ip addr
400
this command will print the last few lines of a file
What is tail
500
These are the two ways we signify that a string is a command option.
What is "-" or "--"
500
This user is on all Linux systems, and has virtually unlimited privileges.
What is root
500
this command will tell you how long the server has been running
What is uptime
500
This command will search through a file line by line for the given string
What is grep
500
this command will print out an entire file to standard output
What is cat