Linux Commands Examples
A great documentation place for Linux commands
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resize2fs : ext2/ext3/ext4 file system resizer
fsck : check and repair a Linux filesystem
chown : change file owner and group
passwd : change user password
aireplay-ng : inject packets into a wireless network to generate traffic
fsck.ext4 : check a Linux ext2/ext3/ext4 file system
hdparm : get/set SATA/IDE device parameters
mkfs.ext3 : create an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
mkfs : build a Linux filesystem
rename : renames multiple files
nohup : run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
tee : read from standard input and write to standard output and files
fsck.msdos : check and repair MS-DOS filesystems
mkfs.ext4dev : create an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
airtun-ng : a virtual tunnel interface creator for aircrack-ng
bridge : show / manipulate bridge addresses and devices
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mkfs.msdos : create an MS-DOS file system under Linux
xcalc : scientific calculator for X
find : search for files in a directory hierarchy
lame : create mp3 audio files
busybox : The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
iconv : Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another
fusermount : mount and unmount FUSE filesystems
gst-launch-1.0 : build and run a GStreamer pipeline
gedit : text editor for the GNOME Desktop
unlink : call the unlink function to remove the specified file
transcode : LINUX video stream processing tool
mount.ntfs : Third Generation Read/Write NTFS Driver
install-sgmlcatalog : maintain transitional SGML catalog
mkisofs :
start-stop-daemon : start and stop system daemon programs
mkdosfs : create an MS-DOS file system under Linux
update-grub : stub for grub-mkconfig
chattr : change file attributes on a Linux file system
nmcli : – commandline tool for controlling NetworkManager
ls : list directory contents
ping : 6 send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
modinfo : Show information about a Linux Kernel module
MAKEDEV : create devices
pidof : - find the process ID of a running program.
tune2fs : adjust tunable filesystem parameters on ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems
fdisk : manipulate disk partition table
ppmtosixel : convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format
pdb3.3 : the Python debugger
kerneloops : program to collect and submit kernel oopses to kerneloops.org
mkfs.bfs : make an SCO bfs filesystem
cweave : translate CWEB to C and/or TeX
loadunimap : load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table
python2.7 : an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
dconf-editor : Graphical editor for dconf
arch : print machine hardware name (same as uname -m)
strace : trace system calls and signals
sha1sum : compute and check SHA1 message digest
avconv : avconv video converter
touch : change file timestamps
setkeycodes : load kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries
jack_connect : JACK toolkit clients for connecting & disconnecting ports
split : split a file into pieces
mt-gnu : control magnetic tape drive operation
badblocks : search a device for bad blocks
swapoff : enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping
ntfsinfo : dump a file’s attributes