Linux Commands

Linux Commands

Follow the below links for some useful Linux commands (with examples).

dhclient - manage DHCP

chmod - change permissions on files or directories.

chown - change file or directory owner.

dig - Domain Name System Information Groper (lookup DNS information)

exim - mail server (This wiki has some common exim commands)

find - Find files

grep - GNU Regular Expression Parser (find strings of text in files)

ip - manage IP addresses and such (replaces ifconfig... more or less)

mtr - (use instead of traceroute)

SSH - Securely connect to a remote computer.

tar - Create and manage tar archive files.

vim - Command line text editor.