Linux manual

This document is a Linux manual in one page ,A summary of useful Linux commands , free training linux course designated to beginners.

Table of contents

• Starting & Stopping
• shutdown -r 5
• shutdown -r now
• Accessing & mounting file systems
• Installing software for Linux
• Finding files and text within files
• The X Window System
• User Administration
• Moving, copying, deleting & viewing files
• User Administration
• Little known tips and tricks
• Configuration files and what they do
• /etc/profile
• /etc/fstab

Excerpt from course

• find / -name fname : Starting with the root directory, look for the file called fname
• find / -name '*fname*' : Starting with the root directory, look for the file containing the string fname
• locate missingfilename : Find a file called missingfilename using the locate command - this assumes you have already used the command updatedb (see next)
• updatedb : Create or update the database of files on all file systems attached to the linux root directory which missingfilename Show the subdirectory containing the executable file called missing file name
• grep : text string to find
• /dir : Starting with the directory called dir , look for and list all files containing text string to find