% Unix/Linux Command List You Should Know (Weekly Cumulative)
% Ian! D. Allen - <idallen@idallen.ca> - [www.idallen.com]
% Fall 2013 - September to December 2013 - Updated Thu Nov 28 06:38:55 EST
  2013

Unix/Linux Command List You Should Know (Weekly Cumulative)
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This is a list of basic Unix/Linux command names used in this course and the
week number in which they were first introduced and described. A missing week
number means the command hasn’t been formally introduced yet.

All these command names have manual pages. Command names that are built-in to
the shell (e.g. `cd`, `exit`, `pwd`, `history`, etc.) are described somewhere
in the man page for the `bash` shell. You can also use the shell built-in
`help` command to get information about built-in commands, e.g. `help help`.

> This list only gives the names of the commands, not what the commands do or
> how to use them. As you use each command, you must keep a notebook with
> these command names in it and a short description of what each command
> does; you will be required to learn and remember at least some of what each
> of these commands can do:

    WK  Command, feature, or technique introduced
    --  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    01  (Labour Day) Terminal Control Characters: ^C ^D ^W ^U ^Z
    02  Remote Login, CLS, Setting the BASH prompt:  PS1='[\u@\h \W]$ '
    03  GLOB characters: * ? [...], aliases
    04  I/O Redirection: < > | 2>&1, Pipes
    05  Editors, Shell local and environment variables, start-up files
    05  Midterm #1 review
    06  Midterm #1 (Monday morning)
    06  cp, search $PATH
    07  (Thanksgiving) Quoting, File System
    07  CentOS VM Installation
    08  Inodes and hard links, ln, Symbolic Links, Disk Usage, du, quota
    09  Permissions: whoami, id, groups, umask, chmod
    09  Midterm #2 review
    10  Midterm #2 (Monday morning)
    10  Unix/Linux Software Package Management: yum, rpm, and tar
    11  system logs, syslog, scheduling with crontab, at
    11  Processes, Jobs, Background, Foreground, Kill, Signals
    12  users and groups, su, sudo, chown, chsh, useradd, gpasswd, etc.
    12  Partitions and File Systems - fdisk, mkfs, mount, swap
    13  Boot Process, GRUB, Run Levels, services, telinit, chkconfig
    14  Data Mining

    03  alias (shell built-in)
    02  apropos (synonym for: man -k)
    11  at
    04  awk '{print $1}'  (also $2, $NF, etc.)
    02  bash
    11  bg (shell built-in)
    01  cal (9 1752)
    01  cat
    02  cd (shell built-in)
    09  chmod ( -R ugo[-+=]rwx octal_number )
    12  chown ( -R ) [owner][:[group]]
    02  clear
    02  cp ( -a -r -p )
    11  crontab
    04  cut
    01  date
    09  df
    12  diff
    11  dmesg
    08  du
    02  echo (shell built-in and external)
        eject
    02  exit (shell built-in)
    05  export (shell built-in)
    12  fdisk ( -l )
    11  fg (shell built-in)
    03  fgrep (see grep -F)
    01  figlet
    01  file ( -s -L )
    02  find ( -name -user -inum -size -print -ls )
    12  gpasswd
    03  grep ( -i -v -w )
    13  grub ( command line and stand-alone boot )
    12  groupadd
    12  groupdel
    12  groupmod
    09  groups
    04  head
    08  help (shell built-in)
    03  history (shell built-in)
    05  hostname
    09  id
    11  jobs (shell built-in)
    11  kill (shell built-in)
    11  killall
        last
    02  less (similar to "more"; used by "man")
    08  ln ( -s )
    05  locate
    01  ls ( -l -i -a -d -L )
    02  man ( -k )
    08  md5sum
    02  mkdir ( -p )
    12  mkfs
    12  mkswap
    03  more (similar to "less")
    12  mount
    03  mv
    05  nano
    12  newgrp
    04  nl (same as "cat -n")
    02  passwd ( username )
    11  ps ( uaxww -efww )
    11  pstree
    02  pwd (shell built-in and also external)
    08  quota -v
    08  reboot (see also: shutdown -h now)
    03  rm ( -r -f )
    02  rmdir
    10  rpm
    13  service
    05  set (shell built-in)
    05  shopt (shell built-in)
    08  shutdown -h now (see also: reboot)
    03  sleep (60)
    04  sort ( -f -n -r )
    12  su ( - )
    12  sudo
    03  sum
    12  swapoff
    12  swapon
    04  tail
    10  tar
    01  toilet
    03  touch
    02  tree
    09  umask ( octal_number ) (shell built-in)
    12  umount
    03  unalias  ( -a ) (shell built-in)
    14  uname
    05  uniq ( -c )
    12  useradd
    12  userdel
    12  usermod
    05  vi / vim / vimtutor
    04  wc ( -l -w -c )
    01  who
    04  whoami
    02  whois (also Week 05 and Week 11)
    08  yum

> Keep a notebook with these command names in it and a short description of
> what each command does; you will be required to learn and remember at least
> some of what each of these commands can do.

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