Sysadmin Daily Commands

Some of these commands are used by unix/linux administrator in his/her day-to-day activities 

cat       to concatenate files to standard output

chgrp     to change file group ownership

chmod     to change file access permissions

chown     to change file owner and group

cp        to copy files and directories

date      to print or set the system data and time

dd        to convert and copy a file

df        to report filesystem disk space usage

dmesg     to print or control the kernel message buffer

echo      to display a line of text

hostname  to show or set the system's host name

kill      to send signals to processes

ln        to make links between files

login     to begin a session on the system

ls        to list directory contents

mkdir     to make directories

mknod     to make block or character special files

more      to page through text

mount     to mount a filesystem

mv        to move/rename files

ps        to report process status

pwd       to print name of current working directory

rm        to remove files or directories

rmdir     to remove empty directories

sed       The `sed' stream editor

sh        The Bourne command shell

stty      to change and print terminal line settings

su        to change user ID

sync      to flush filesystem buffers

true      to do nothing, successfully

umount    to unmount file systems

uname     to print system information

csh     The C shell 

ed      The `ed' editor 

tar     The tar archiving  

cpio    The cpio archiving  

gzip    The GNU compression  

gunzip  The GNU uncompression  

zcat    The GNU uncompression  

netstat The network statistics  

ping    The ICMP network test

For More Commands:An A-Z Index of the  Bash command line for Linux
Shorthand at the Command Prompt
AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux(RedHat), Solaris, Tru64 Commands
Ubuntu Commands
List of Unix Utilities

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