In this tutorial, we have included all used Linux Commands directory that can be used on various Unix/Linux like OS variants. The directory provides users with complete description about commands and how to use through terminal (Command Line) provided by Linux operating systems. In order to run these commands, just type the commands according to your requirements, pass the parameters, and press Enter key. Let’s learn the commands alphabetically now.
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access : checks if a program has access to a file, also it can be used if file is existing or not
accton : used for turning on or off the process for accounting or change info process accounting file
aclocal : automatically generates aclocal.m4 files from configure.in file
acpi : displays the battery and other ACPI details
acpi_available: checks ACPI subsystem availability
acpid : provides intelligent power-management on system and notifies the user-space programs abou the ACPI events
adduser : adds a user to a system
addgroup : adds a group to a system
addr2line : converts addresses into file names and line numbers
agetty : manages physical or virtual terminals to allow multi-user access
alias : instructs shell to replace an string with another while running commands
amixer : it’s a command-line mixer for ALSA sound-card driver
aplay : it’s a command-line audio player for ALSA
aplaymidi : plays standard MIDI files by sending the content of MIDI file to ALSA
apropos : helps users to remember the exact command
apt : provides a high level CLI for package management system
apt-get : helps in handling packages in Linux
aptitude : opens built-in interface to interact with package manager of a system
ar : creates, modifies and extract the files from archives
arch : prints computer architecture
arp : manipulates the system’s ARP cache
aspell : checks spelling in Linux
atd : runs job scheduled for later execution
atrm : removes specified job
atq : displays the list of pending jobs
autoconf : generates configuration scripts
autoheader : creates a template file of C “define” or to create any other template header for configure to use
automake : generates Makefile.in files comliant with the set GNU Coding Standards automatically
autoreconf : creates buildable source code for Unix-like systems
autoupdate : updates configure.in file in Linux system to a newer Autoconf
awk : used for manipulating data and generating reports
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