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You can use the cat command to see the content of a file and display the line numbers by using the -b option along with the cat command as follows
cat -b filename
You can use the wc command to get a count of the total number of lines, words, and characters contained in a file.
wc filename
To make a copy of a file use the cp command.
cp source_file destination_file
To go in your last directory
cd -
To list the files in a directory
ls dirname
An important Unix concept is the environment, which is defined by environment variables. Some are set by the system, others by you, yet others by the shell, or any program that loads another program.
A variable is a character string to which we assign a value. The value assigned could be a number, text, filename, device, or any other type of data. For example, first we set a variable TEST and then we access its value using the echo command
TEST="Unix Programming" echo $TEST
It produces the following result.
Unix Programming
If we don't use the $ sign, it returns
TEST
Really clear a terminal instead of simply shifting previous output upwards when you run "clear" command.
tput reset
You can connect two commands together so that the output from one program becomes the input of the next program. Two or more commands connected in this way form a pipe. To make a pipe, put a vertical bar (|) on the command line between two commands. When a program takes its input from another program, it performs some operation on that input, and writes the result to the standard output. It is referred to as a filter.
The name "grep“ means "globally search for a regular expression and print all lines containing it”. For example,
ls -l | grep "lib"
There are various options which you can use along with the grep command
ls -l | grep -v "lib" # Prints all lines that do not match pattern. ls -l | grep -c "lib" # Prints only the count of matching lines. ls -l | grep -i "lib" # case insensitive search
View the history of a command
history|grep "main.py" # view all commands containing main.py
Write the output of a command to a txt file
command >>logs.txt 2>&1 # errors and warnings included
Disk usage of all users
sudo du -shc /home/*
Disk usage by subfolder
du directory-to-analyze/* -sh
Find the process on a specific port
sudo lsof -t -i:9001