Command |
Describe |
Alias |
Define an alias for the specified command |
| Bg |
Run of later mode recovery jobs |
| Bind |
Bind a keyboard sequence to a ReadLine function or macro |
| Break |
Exit For, while, select, until Loops |
| Builtin |
Executes the specified shell built-in command |
| Cd |
Switches the current directory to the specified directory |
| Caller |
Returns the context of all active child function calls |
| Command |
Executes the specified command instead of the usual shell lookup |
| Compgen |
Generate a possible complement match for the specified word |
| Complete |
Shows how the specified word is fully complement |
| Continue |
Continue with the next iteration of the for, while, select, until Loops |
| Declare |
Declaring a variable or variable type |
| Dirs |
Displays a list of current storage directories |
| Dirsown |
Removes the specified job from the job list for the process |
| Echo |
Outputs the specified character to stdout |
| Enable |
To start or disable built-in shell commands |
| Eval |
Stitch the specified parameters into a single command, and then execute the command |
| Exec |
Replace the shell process with the specified command |
| Exit |
Force the Shell to exit with the specified status code |
| Export |
Sets the specified variable to be available to the child shell process |
| Fc |
Select a list of commands from the history record |
| Fg |
Resume job running in front-end mode |
| Getopts |
Parse the specified positional parameters |
| Hash |
Find and remember the full path name of the specified command |
| Help |
Show Help Files |
| History |
Show command history |
| Jobs |
List the active jobs |
| Kill |
Sends a system signal to the specified process ID (PID) |
| Let |
Calculates each parameter in a mathematical expression |
| Local |
Creating a scoped variable in a function |
| Logout |
Exit Shell Login |
| popd |
Delete records from the directory stack |
| Printf |
displaying text using a formatted string |
| pushd |
Add a directory to the directory stack |
| Pwd |
Displays the path name of the current working directory |
| Read |
Reads a row of data from stdin and assigns it to a variable |
| ReadOnly |
Reads a row of data from stdin and assigns it to a variable that cannot be modified |
| Return |
Forces the function to exit with a value that may be called by the script to extract |
| Set |
setting and displaying the values and shell properties of environment variables |
| Shift |
Set parameter down one position in turn |
| Shopt |
Turn on/off variable values that control the shell's optional behavior |
| Suspend |
Suspends execution of the shell, knowing that a sigcont signal is received |
| Test |
Returns exit status code 0 or 1 based on specified criteria |
| Times |
Displays the cumulative user and system time |
| Trap |
If a specified system signal is received, execute the specified command |
| Type |
Displays the specified word if it will be interpreted as a command |
| Ulimit |
Sets an upper limit for the specified resource for the system user |
| Umask |
Set default permissions for new files and directories |
| Unalias |
Delete the specified alias |
| unset |
Delete the specified environment variable or shell attribute |
| Wait |
Waits for the specified process to complete and returns the outstanding status code |
| Bzip2 |
Using Burrows-wheeler block sort text compression algorithm and Huffman coded compression method |
| Cat |
List the contents of the specified file |
| Chage |
Modify the password expiration date for the specified system user account |
| Chfn |
Modify note Information for a specified user account |
| Chgrp |
To modify the default genus group for a specified file or directory |
| chmod |
Modify system security permissions for a specified file or directory |
| Chown |
Modifies the default owner of a specified file or directory |
| chpasswd |
Read a login/password to the file and update the password |
| Chsh |
Modify the default shell for a specified user account |
| Compress |
The original UNIX file compression tool |
| Cp |
Copy the specified file to a different location |
| Date |
Display dates in various formats |
| Df |
Displays statistics on the current disk space for all mounted devices |
| Du |
Displays statistics on disk usage for the specified file path |
| File |
To view the file type of a specified file |
| Find |
Recursive lookup of files |
| Finger |
Display information about a user's account on a Linux or remote system |
| Free |
View available and used memory on the system |
| Grep |
Finds the specified text string in a file |
| Groupadd |
Create a new system group |
| Groupmod |
Modify an existing system group |
| Gzip |
GNU Project compression tool with Lempel-ziv encoding |
| Head |
Displays the beginning of the contents of the specified file |
| Killall |
Sends a system signal to a running process based on the process name |
| Less |
Advanced methods for viewing the contents of a file |
| Link |
Create a link to a specified file with an alias |
| Ls |
Listing Directory Contents |
| Mkdir |
Create the specified directory under the current directory |
| More |
Lists the contents of the specified file, pausing after each screen of data |
| Mount |
Display a disk device mounted on a virtual file system or mount a disk device to a virtual file system |
| Mv |
Rename or move a file |
| Nice |
Use different priorities on the system to run commands |
| passwd |
Modify the password for a system user account |
| Ps |
Displays information about processes running on the system |
| Pwd |
Show current directory |
| Renice |
To modify the priority of applications running on the system |
| Rm |
Delete the specified file |
| RmDir |
Delete the specified directory |
| Sort |
Organizes data in a data file based on the specified order |
| Stat |
Displays file statistics for the specified file |
| Sudo |
Run the app as the root user account |
| Tail |
Displays the end portion of the specified file content |
| Tar |
Archive data and directories into a single file |
| Touch |
Create a new empty file or update the timestamp of an existing file |
| Top |
Displays the active process and describes important system statistics |
| Umount |
Remove a mounted disk device from the virtual file system |
| Uptime |
Displays information about how long the system has been running |
| Useradd |
Create a new System user account |
| Userdel |
Delete an existing system user account |
| Usermod |
Modify an existing system user account |
| Vmstat |
Generate a detailed on-system memory and CPU usage report |
| which |
Find the location of the executable file |
| Zip |
Unix versions of Windows PKZIP programs |