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51 Lesser Known Commands for Linux As well as extremely powerful, at the same time. We brought to you, five articles on “Lesser Known Linux Commands” consisting of 50+ lesser known Linux command. This article aims at concatenating all those five articles as one, and lets you know, what is where, in brief. 11 Lesser Known Commands – Part I This article was highly appreciated by our readers, which contains simple yet very important commands. The article summaries as. - 1. sudo!! : Forgot to run a command with sudo? You need not re-write the whole command, just type “sudo!!” and the last command will run with sudo.
- 2. Python -m SimpleHTTPServer : Creates a simple web page for the current working directory over port 8000.
- 3. mtr : A command which is a combination of ‘ping’ and ‘traceroute’ command.
- 4. Ctrl+x+e : This key combination fires up, an editor in the terminal, instantaneously.
- 5. nl : Outputs the content of text file with lines Numbered.
- 6. shuf : Randomly selects line/file/folder from a file/folder.
- 7. ss : Outputs Socket Statistics.
- 8. Last: Want to know history of last logged in users? This command comes to rescue here.
- 9. curl ifconfig.me : Shows machine’s external IP Address.
- 10. tree : Prints files and folders in tree like fashion, recursively.
- 11. Pstree : Prints running processes with child processes, recursively.
11 Lesser Known Useful Linux Commands – Part I The great response, received on this article, and requests to provide another list of ‘Lesser Known Linux Commands‘, from our readers, we wrote next article of the series is: 10 Lesser Known Commands – Part II This article again was warm welcomed. The summary of the article, below is enough to describe this. - 12. <space> command : A space before a bash command, is not recorded in history.
- 13. stat : Shows the status information of a file as well as of a file system.
- 14. <alt>. And <esc>. : A tweak which put the last command argument at prompt, in the order of last entered command, appearing first.
- 15. Pv : outputs simulating text, similar to hollywood movies.
- 16. Mount | column -t : Lists mounted file system, in nice formatting with specification.
- 17. Ctrl + l: clear shell prompt, instantaneously.
- 18. curl -u gmail_id –silent “https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom” | perl -ne ‘print “\t” if //; print “$2\n” if /(.*)/;’. This simple scripts, opens up, unread mail of an user, in the terminal itself.
- 19. screen : Detach and Reattach, long running process from a session.
- 20. file : Outputs information, regarding types of file.
- 21. id : Print User and Group Id.
10 Lesser Known Linux Commands – Part 2 Getting over 600 Likes on different social Networking sites and many thankful comments, we were ready with our third article of the series is: 10 Lesser Known Commands – Part 3 This article summaries as below: - 22. ^foo^bar : Run last command with modification, without the need of rewriting the whole command again.
- 23. > file.txt : Flush the content of a text file, in a single go, from the command prompt.
- 24. at : Run a particular command, time based.
- 25. du -h –max-depth=1 Command : Outputs the size of all the files and folders within current folder, in human readable format.
- 26. expr : Solve simple mathematical calculations from the terminal.
- 27. look: Check for an English word, from the dictionary, in case of confusion, right from the shell.
- 28. yes : continues to print a sting, till interrupt instruction is given.
- 29. factor: Gives all the possible factors of a decimal number.
- 30. ping -i 60 -a IP_address : Pings the provided IP_address, and gives audible sound when host comes alive.
- 31. tac : Prints content of a file, in reverse order.
10 Lesser Known Commands for Linux – Part 3 Our Hard-work was paid by the response we received and fourth article of the series was: 10 Lesser Known Linux Commands – Part IV Need not say, again this article was appreciated. The article summarises below: - 32. strace : A debugging tool.
- 33. disown -a && exit Command : Run a command in background, even after terminal session is closed.
- 34. getconf LONG_BIT Command : Output Machine Architecture, very clearly.
- 35. while sleep 1;do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-29));date;tput rc;done & : The script outputs date and time on the top right corner of shell/ terminal.
- 36. convert : converts the output of a command in picture, automatically.
- 37. watch -t -n1 “date +%T|figlet” : Show animated digital clock at the prompt.
- 38. host and dig : DNS lookup utility.
- 39. dstat : Generates statistics regarding system resource.
- 40. bind -p : Shows all the shortcuts available in Bash.
- 41. Touch /forcefsck : Force file-system check on next boot.
10 Lesser Known Effective Linux Commands – Part IV 10 Lesser Known Linux Commands- Part V The commands from here was getting biased towards scripts, yes single line powerful shell scripts and we thought to provide at least one more article on this series. - 42. lsb_release : Prints distribution specification information.
- 43. nc -ZV localhost port_number : Check if a specific port is open or not.
- 44. curl ipinfo.io : Outputs Geographical Information, regarding an ip_address.
- 45. find .-user xyz : Lists all file owned by user ‘xyz’
- 46. apt-get build-dep package_name: Build all the dependency, automatically while installing any specific package.
- 47. lsof -iTCP:80 -sTCP:LISTEN. The script, outputs all the service/process using port 80.
- 48. find -size +100M : This command combination, Lists all the files/folders the size of which is 100M or more.
- 49. pdftk : A nice way to concatenate a lot of pdf files, into one.
- 50. ps -LF -u user_name : Outputs Processes and Threads of a user.
- 51. Startx — :1 (This command creates another new X session).
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Paul October 18, 2015 at 12:28 am I found this very interesting, along with the other lists on this site. Thanks, for putting them together.However, I found several typos including misspelled words. If you are interested I will detail them. Here’s a few.In the first paragraph “Linux user” should be “Linux users”. Down through text commas are used improperly to break up the text. Reply Mohit September 22, 2015 at 2:48 pm Thank you so much… very useful post Reply George D September 22, 2015 at 2:41 pm I am getting an error when I run the following: Command: curl -u gmail_id –silent “https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom” | perl -ne ‘print “\t” if //; print “$2\n” if /(.*)/;’Response: bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(‘ Running Ubuntu 15.04. Any idea what the problem could be? Reply Ravi Saive September 22, 2015 at 4:13 pm Try the following command and don’t forget to add actual email also the quotes needed to be fixed.. # curl -u ravisaive@gmail.com -silent “https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom” | perl -ne 'print "\t" ; print "$2\n" if /(.*)/;' curl will need to have SSL enabled. Reply
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