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Bash Commands Bash List (ls) Bash Change Dir (cd) Bash Print Dir (pwd) Bash Echo (echo) Bash Concatenate (cat) Bash Copy (cp) Bash Move (mv) Bash Remove (rm) Bash Timestamp (touch) Bash Make Dir (mkdir) Bash Find Files (find) Bash Manual (man) Bash Alias

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Bash Redirection Bash Pipes (|) Bash Build Commands (xargs)

Text Processing

Bash Search Text (grep) Bash Pattern Scan (awk) Bash Stream Editor (sed) Bash Remove Section (cut) Bash Sort Lines (sort) Bash View End (tail) Bash View Start (head) Bash Count (wc) Bash Unique Lines (uniq) Bash Translate (tr) Bash Compare Files (diff)

System Monitoring

Bash Process Status (ps) Bash List Processes (top) Bash Disk Space (df) Bash Directory Usage (du) Bash Memory Usage (free) Bash Terminate (kill) Bash Uptime

Networking

Bash Ping Bash URL Transfer (curl) Bash Downloader (wget) Bash Remote Connect (ssh) Bash Secure Copy (scp) Bash File Sync (rsync)

File Compression

Bash Compress (zip) Bash Extract (unzip) Bash TAR Archive

File Permissions

Bash Ownership Bash Modify (chmod) Bash Ownership (chown) Bash Group (chgrp)

Scripting

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Bash Redirection


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Redirection changes where a command reads its input from, or where it writes its output.

> writes output to a file (and replaces what was there), >> adds to the end of a file, and < reads input from a file.

Write and add to a file

echo "Hello" > greeting.txt
echo "World" >> greeting.txt
cat greeting.txt
Hello
World

Read input from a file

wc -l < greeting.txt
2



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