Terminal Commands (Linux - ubuntu) (part-1)

What is a terminal on a computer?
computer terminal, a device that enables a
computer to receive or deliver data. Computer
terminals vary greatly depending on the format
of the data they handle. For example, a simple
early terminal comprised a typewriter keyboard
for input and a typewriter printing element for
alphanumeric output.

Why use the terminal?
"Under Linux there are GUIs (graphical user
interfaces), where you can point and click and
drag, and hopefully get work done without first
reading lots of documentation. The traditional
Unix environment is a CLI (command line
interface), where you type commands to tell the
computer what to do. That is faster and more
powerful, but requires finding out what the
commands are."

Important information
about the Linux
terminal

The Linux commands are case-sensitive
It is important to remember that
everything written in the terminal is
case-sensitive. When the command is
"sudo", neither "Sudo", "SUDO", nor
"sUdO" will work.

Beware of spaces
Spacing is equally important. "chown-R" will
only return an error. If we want to
create/access/delete a file or directory that has
a space in the filename, we can either put the
whole filename inside quotation marks or
"escape" the space using the backslash "".

Finding previous Linux commands
Pressing the Up keyboard key will cycle
through the last Linux commands we
successfully used, in order. No failed
commands will show here.

The invisible password
When we are asked for our password, e.g.
after we used "sudo", as we type the
password nothing will show on screen, no
stars or dots or anything. We just type the
password and press Enter.

Command:- pwd
• pwd stands for "present working directory".
• The current directory, also known as the working directory, is where you are. In the Finder,
this is equivalent to having a window open and viewing the files. To determine the current
directory, type in: pwd

Command : ls
 list files and directories .

Command:- mkdir directory name
 create a new directory.
 Here for example we create directory name as user so for that we have to use
command:- mkdir user
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 Now let us see our new directory is created or not.
 Use command:- ls
 You can see we created new directory.
One directory is created

?? Question ??
Can we make multiple folder within one second???
Like we want to create folder
user1,user2,user3.....user10.
it’s possible????
In GUI(graphical user interface) it’s also not possible to
create 100 or even more folder within ONE second!!!!!!!
This work can be done using TERMINAL.
Now we will create 10 folders in one second!

Command :- mkdir user{1..10}
As you can see we created 10 folder/directory within one second.
Just type command:- mkdir directory_name {starting value (1) .. ending value(10)}
You can see 10 directory is
created

Command:- rmdir directory_name
 Delete a existing directory.
 Here for example we have to delete user directory then we have to use
command:- rmdir user

 Now let us see our user directory is deleted or not.
 Use command:- ls
 You can see we have deleted user directory.
Before deleting
after deleting

Command:-
mv existing(directory)_name
new_name
• Exmaple here i have created directory named as user.
• Now i want to change the directory name user to
user1.
• So we have to use command as given bellow.
• Command:- mv user user1
• *Existing folder(directory name) :- user
• *New name:- user1

Before name changed :-
USER
After name changed :-
USER 1

Command:- cat > test
It will create a Text file with name “test”
By default it’s extension is .txt
If you want to make file with diffent extension then simply type
Command:- cat > test.c
It will create a file test with .c extension.
When you type command:- cat > test
Then you can write any message that you want to store in that file. You can write anything.
When you finishes your typing work then you have to press
“Ctrl+d”. then your typing will be stored.

Command :- cat test
Till now we have created one file.
Now how to see what is written in that file.
First we will see our file is existing or not with help of command:- ls
Then we will open that file and we can read what ever is written in that file.
Simpley we have to write
Command:- cat file_name.
Here :- cat test.

??Question??
 Now if we want to edit our existing file then what to do ?????
 Cool don’t worry we just need to type few command (hahaha).
 Command:- cat >> test
 After writing this we can edit our file.
 Now you can write whatever you want to write.
 When you finished the writing simply press “Ctrl+d”
 Now your information or your data will be stored.
 Then re-open file and see the changes.

 As you can see in previous picture.
 Already we have created one file. (file_name= test)
 We run command:- cat >> test
 Then we write few thing than we press “Ctrl+d”
 Then we open our existing file with help of command:- cat
test
 We can see our file is now updated.

??Question??
Can we find the numbers of lines, words, characters in given text file???
 Answer is YES
 First we have to make one text file.
 In our case we already created one file. File name is ‘test’
 Now we will count
 Number of lines
 Number of Words
 Number of characters.

Command:- wc Filename
 Command :- wc test , will give total number of lines, words,
characters.
 Step 1: open the file :- cat test
 Step 2:
 write command:- wc -l test (It will count number of line)
 Step 3:
 write command:- wc -w test (It will count number of words)
 Step 4:
 write command:- wc -c test (It will count number of characters )

Here you can see wc -l test will give you number of lines,-w will give words,-c will give characters.
And you can notice wc test will give you same result.

In next PPT we will learn
• Copy file1 as file2
• Sorting of file
• permission of file in linux
• How to display system information
• Banner command
• Ln Command
• Compression of file
• How to uncompress compressed file
• How to open Compressed file
• Converting upper_case to lowwer
• Lower_case to Upper in existing file.
• And some basic commands

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