For a person new to Linux, finding Linux functional is still not very easy even after the emergence of user friendly Linux distribution like Ubuntu and Mint. The thing remains that there will always be some configuration on user’s part to be done manually.

Just to start with, the first thing a user should know is the basic commands in terminal. Linux GUI runs on Shell. When GUI is not running but Shell is running, Linux is running. If Shell is not running, nothing is running. Commands in Linux is a means of interaction with Shell. For a beginners some of the basic computational task is to:
- View the contents of a directory : A directory may contains visible and invisible files with different file permissions.
- Viewing blocks, HDD partition, External HDD
- Checking the integrity of Downloaded/Transferred Packages
- Converting and copying a file
- Know your machine name, OS and Kernel
- Viewing history
- Being root
- Make Directory
- Make Files
- Changing the file permission
- Own a file
- Install, Update and maintain Packages
- Uncompressing a file
- See current date, time and calendar
- Print contents of a file
- Copy and Move
- See the working directory for easy navigation
- Change the working directory, etc…
And we have described all of the above basic computational task in our First Article.
This was the first article of this series. We tried to provide you with detailed description of these commands with explicit examples which was highly appreciated by our reader in terms of likes, comments and traffic.
What after these initial commands? Obviously we moved to the next part of this article where we provided commands for computational tasks like:
- Finding a file in a given directory
- Searching a file with the given keywords
- Finding online documentation
- See the current running processes
- Kill a running process
- See the location of installed Binaries
- Starting, Ending, Restarting a service
- Making and removing of aliases
- View the disk and space usages
- Removing a file and/or directory
- Print/echo a custom output on standard output
- Changing password of on-self and other’s, if you are root.
- View Printing queue
- Compare two files
- Download a file, the Linux way (wget)
- Mount a block / partition / external HDD
- Compile and Run a code written in ‘C’, ‘C++’ and ‘Java’ Programming Language
This Second Article was again highly appreciated by the readers of Tecmint.com. The article was nicely elaborated with suitable examples and output.
After providing the users with the glimpse of Commands used by a Middle Level User we thought to give our effort in a nice write-up for a list of command used by an user of System Administrator Level.
In our Third and last article of this series, we tried to cover the commands that would be required for the computational task like:
- Configuring Network Interface
- Viewing custom Network Related information
- Getting information about Internet Server with customisable switches and Results
- Digging DNS
- Knowing Your System uptime
- Sending an occasional Information to all other logged-in users
- Send text messages directly to a user
- Combination of commands
- Renaming a file
- Seeing the processes of a CPU
- Creating newly formatted ext4 partition
- Text File editors like vi, emacs and nano
- Copying a large file/folder with progress bar
- Keeping track of free and available memory
- Backup a mysql database
- Make difficult to guess – random password
- Merge two text files
- List of all the opened files
Writing this article and the list of command that needs to go with the article was a little cumbersome. We chose 20 commands with each article and hence gave a lot of thought for which command should be included and which should be excluded from the particular post. I personally selected the commands on the basis of their usability (as I use and get used to) from an user point of view and an Administrator point of view.
This Articles aims to concatenate all the articles of its series and provide you with all the functionality in commands you can perform in our this very series of articles.
There are too long lists of commands available in Linux. But we provided the list of 60 commands which is generally and most commonly used and a user having knowledge of these 60 commands as a whole can work in terminal very much smoothly.
That’s all for now from me. I will soon be coming up with another tutorial, you people will love to go through. Till then Stay Tuned! Keep Visiting Tecmint.com.
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Dear Avishek and Ravi,
I googled and found tecmint a better source of learning Linux Administration. Please do keep it up to mark and give some detailed information to troubleshoot networks and IP address schema.
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Aali
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Thanks for this useful article !!
Awesome work !!!
Small suggestion- Pls ellaborate with mostly used arguements
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Thanks for your wonderful words.
we welcome your suggestion and will shortly start working on it.
Very helpfull post.
Well the content is for only L1 and L2 level? or it includes L3 As well.
Dear Nasir,
Good to know, it was helpful for you.
There is nothing called L1 and L2.
Its all about increasing your knowledge base, in the right way and feedback of such kind tells the whole story.
these commands r useful 4 me tkx a lot
Welcome @ Vasant Singh
Yes, this information is very helpful. I am an intermediate user of linux, and have used it for almost a year now. I spend around 20% of my time in terminal. Some of these commands, I have never heard of! Thanks very much :-)
Thanks @ cody, for the above nice words
My issue in vacation setup I have postfix with postfix mailadmin setup mails r working fine issue with vacation setup
@ Bharath You have problem in vacation setup is an issue. but Until and Unless you dont provide us the complete details of what is going on, we cant Help you.
hi,
i am going to attend the interview based on Linux position. so they expect basics of Linux from me.i need to prepare Linux from the basic,so sent the suitable link for me
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This is very very good. Keep on a good work. I follow them all.
THanks @ Marwin :)
It helps a lot on my side!
Happy to know that it was helpful, thanks @ Agatha
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thanks for guidance, this helps alot
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