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Terminal & Shell Commands

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Shell types and everyday terminal navigation and utility commands.

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1Shell
A command-line interface that provides access to the operating system
2Bash
Bourne Again Shell - the most common Unix/Linux shell
3Zsh
Z Shell - an extended bash-like shell with advanced features
4'ls'
Lists files and directories in the current directory
5'cd'
Changes the current directory
6'pwd'
Prints the current working directory path
7'mkdir'
Creates a new directory
8'rm'
Removes (deletes) files or directories
9'cp'
Copies files or directories
10'mv'
Moves or renames files or directories
11'touch'
Creates an empty file or updates file timestamp
12'cat'
Displays the contents of a file
13'less'
Views file content one page at a time (paginator)
14'head'
Displays the first lines of a file (default 10)
15'tail'
Displays the last lines of a file (default 10)
16'grep'
Searches for patterns in files using regular expressions
17'find'
Searches for files and directories by name, type, etc.
18'chmod'
Changes file permissions (read, write, execute)
19'chown'
Changes file owner and group
20'ps'
Displays currently running processes
21'top'
Displays real-time system resource usage and processes
22'kill'
Terminates a process by PID
23'sudo'
Executes a command with superuser (root) privileges
24'man'
Displays the manual page for a command
25'echo'
Prints text to the terminal or redirects to a file
26'which'
Shows the full path of a command
27'whereis'
Locates the binary, source, and manual page for a command
28'df'
Displays disk space usage of file systems
29'du'
Displays disk usage of files and directories
30'tar'
Archives multiple files into a single file (tarball)

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