% Unix/Linux Command List (weekly cumulative)
% Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com
% Winter 2013 - January to April 2013 - Updated Wed May 8 21:01:24 EDT 2013

Keep a list of commands
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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 (though some of them are built-in to the
shell and are described in the man page for the bash shell, e.g. exit is
described deep inside the man page “man bash”).

> Keep a notebook with these command names in it; 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
    --  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    2   Terminal Control Characters: ^C ^D ^W ^U ^Z
    3   Setting the BASH prompt:  PS1='[\u@\h \W]$ '
    4   GLOB characters: * ? [...]
    5   VIM, I/O Redirection: < > | 2>&1
    6   Redirection, Pipes, Editors, Shell local and environment variables
    7   Shell PATH, Quoting, inodes and hard links, and ln
    8   Hard Links, Symbolic Links, Disk Usage, Permissions
    9   Fedora VM Installation, Permissions, umask, chmod
    10  Processes, Jobs, Background, Foreground, Kill, Signals
    11  system logs, syslog, scheduling with crontab, at, users and groups
    12  Partitions and File Systems - fdisk, mkfs, mount, swap
    13  Boot Process, GRUB, Run Levels, services, telinit, chkconfig
    14  Unix/Linux Software Package Management: yum, rpm, and tar; Data Mining

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

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

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