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A list of 100 commonly used Linux commands:

1. ls - List directory contents

2. cd - Change the current directory

3. pwd - Print the name of the current working directory

4. mkdir - Create a new directory

5. rmdir - Remove an empty directory

6. touch - Create a new empty file

7. cp - Copy files and directories

8. mv - Move or rename files and directories

9. rm - Remove files or directories

10. cat - Concatenate and display file content

11. less - View file contents one screen at a time

12. head - Display the beginning of a file

13. tail - Display the end of a file

14. grep - Search for a pattern in files

15. find - Search for files in a directory hierarchy

16. chmod - Change file permissions

17. chown - Change file ownership

18. chgrp - Change group ownership of a file

19. man - Display the manual page for a command

20. info - Display information about a command

21. which` - Locate a command

22. locate - Find files by name

23. file - Determine file type

24. du - Display disk usage


25. df - Display free disk space

26. free - Display amount of free and used memory

27. top - Display system processes

28. ps - Display information about running processes

29. kill - Terminate a process

30. shutdown - Shutdown or restart the system

31. reboot - Reboot the system

32. ping - Send ICMP echo requests to a host

33. ifconfig - Display or configure network interfaces

34. iwconfig - Configure wireless network interfaces

35. scp - Securely copy files between hosts

36. ssh - Secure shell remote login

37. rsync - Remote file synchronization

38. wget - Download files from the internet

39. curl - Transfer data from or to a server

40. tar - Manipulate tape archives

41. gzip - Compress or decompress files

42. bzip2 - Compress or decompress files using BZIP2 algorithm

43. zip - Package and compress files into ZIP archive format

44. unzip - Extract files from a ZIP archive

45. lsblk - List information about block devices

46. mount - Mount a file system

47. umount - Unmount a mounted file system

48. df - Display disk space usage

49. du - Estimate file space usage


50. awk - Pattern scanning and processing language

51. sed - Stream editor for filtering and transforming text

52. cut - Remove sections from each line of files

53. sort - Sort lines of text files

54. uniq - Report or omit repeated lines

55. wc - Print newline, word, and byte counts for files

56. diff - Compare files line by line

57. patch - Apply a diff file to an original

58. git - Distributed version control system

59. svn - Subversion version control system

60. make - Maintain, update, and regenerate groups of programs

61. gcc - GNU Compiler Collection

62. g++ - GNU C++ Compiler

63. vim - Vi Improved, a text editor

64. nano - Nano's Another editor, a text editor

65. emacs - GNU Emacs text editor

66. grep - Print lines matching a pattern

67. find - Search for files in a directory hierarchy

68. awk - Pattern scanning and processing language

69. sed - Stream editor for filtering and transforming text

70. tr - Translate or delete characters

71. cut - Remove sections from each line of files

72. paste - Merge lines of files

73. join - Join lines of two files on a common field

74. sort - Sort lines of text files


75. uniq - Report or omit repeated lines

76. comm - Compare two sorted files line by line

77. wc - Print newline, word, and byte counts for files

78. cmp - Compare two files byte by byte

79. diff - Compare files line by line

80. patch - Apply a diff file to an original

81. gzip - Compress or decompress files

82. gunzip - Decompress files compressed with gzip

83. bzip2 - Compress or decompress files using BZIP2 algorithm

84. tar - Manipulate tape archives

85. zip - Package and compress files into ZIP archive format

86. unzip - Extract files from a ZIP archive

87. find - Search for files in a directory hierarchy

88. locate - Find files by name

89. which - Locate a command

90. whereis - Locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command

91. updatedb - Update the database used by locate

92. date - Display or set the system date and time

93. cal - Display a calendar

94. time - Measure program execution time

95. watch - Execute a program periodically, showing output full Screen

96. echo - Display a line of text

97. hostname - Print or set the system's host name

98. uname - Print system information

99. whoami - Print effective user ID


100. history - Display the command history

These are just a few of the many commands available in Linux, but they cover a wide
range of tasks and functionalities.

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