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    Basic Commands
    1. Navigation
    pwd - Print working directory
    ls - List directory contents
    cd [directory] - Change directory
    cd .. - Move to parent directory

    2. File Operations
    touch [file] - Create a new file
    cat [file] - Display file content
    cp [source] [destination] - Copy files or directories
    mv [source] [destination] - Move or rename files or directories
    rm [file] - Remove a file
    rm -r [directory] - Remove a directory and its contents

    3. Directory Operations
    mkdir [directory] - Create a new directory
    rmdir [directory] - Remove an empty directory

    Intermediate Commands
    1. Permissions
    chmod [permissions] [file] - Change file permissions
    chown [owner]:[group] [file] - Change file owner and group

    2. Viewing and Editing Files


    nano [file] - Open file in nano editor
    vi [file] - Open file in vi editor
    grep [pattern] [file] - Search for a pattern in a file
    head [file] - Display the first 10 lines of a file
    tail [file] - Display the last 10 lines of a file
    tail -f [file] - Continuously display new lines added to a file
    3. Networking
    ping [host] - Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
    ifconfig - Display or configure a network interface
    netstat - Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics,
    masquerade connections, and multicast memberships
    curl [url] - Transfer data from or to a server
    wget [url] - Download files from the web

    4. System Monitoring
    top - Display tasks and system resource usage
    htop - Interactive process viewer
    ps aux - Show all running processes
    df -h - Display disk space usage in human-readable format
    du -h [directory] - Display directory size in human-readable format

    Advanced Commands
    1. Package Management (Debian-based)
    apt-get update - Update package list
    apt-get upgrade - Upgrade installed packages
    apt-get install [package] - Install a package
    apt-get remove [package] - Remove a package

    2. Package Management (Red Hat-based)


    yum update - Update package list and upgrade installed packages
    yum install [package] - Install a package
    yum remove [package] - Remove a package

    3. User Management
    adduser [username] - Add a new user
    passwd [username] - Change a user's password
    usermod -aG [group] [username] - Add a user to a group
    deluser [username] - Delete a user
    4. Disk Management
    fdisk -l - List disk partitions
    mkfs.ext4 [device] - Create an ext4 filesystem
    mount [device] [directory] - Mount a filesystem
    umount [directory] - Unmount a filesystem

    5. System Control
    systemctl status [service] - Check the status of a service
    systemctl start [service] - Start a service
    systemctl stop [service] - Stop a service
    systemctl restart [service] - Restart a service
    systemctl enable [service] - Enable a service to start at boot
    systemctl disable [service] - Disable a service from starting at boot

    6. Advanced Networking
    ip a - Show network interfaces and IP addresses
    iptables -L - List firewall rules
    ssh [user]@[host] - Connect to a remote host via SSH
    scp [file] [user]@[host]:[destination] - Secure copy files between hosts

    7. Process Management
    kill [PID] - Terminate a process by PID
    killall [process_name] - Terminate all processes with a given name
    nohup [command] & - Run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-
    tty

    8. Archive and Compression


    tar -cvf [archive.tar] [file/directory] - Create a tarball
    tar -xvf [archive.tar] - Extract a tarball
    gzip [file] - Compress a file
    gunzip [file.gz] - Decompress a file
    Additional Commands
    1. File Viewing and Manipulation
    less [file] - View file content one screen at a time
    sort [file] - Sort the contents of a file
    uniq [file] - Report or filter out repeated lines in a file
    diff [file1] [file2] - Compare two files line by line

    2. Disk Usage and Quota


    lsblk - List information about block devices
    blkid - Locate/print block device attributes
    quota -u [username] - Display user disk usage and limits

    3. Scheduled Tasks
    crontab -e - Edit user crontab
    crontab -l - List user crontab entries
    at [time] - Schedule a command to be run at a specified time

    4. System Information
    uname -a - Print all system information
    hostnamectl - Query and change the system hostname
    dmesg - Print or control the kernel ring buffer
    lshw - List hardware configuration

    5. Text Processing
    awk '{print $1}' [file] - Extract the first column of a file
    sed 's/old/new/g' [file] - Replace all occurrences of 'old' with 'new' in a
    file
    cut -d ' ' -f1 [file] - Cut out the first field of a file

    6. Advanced Networking
    traceroute [host] - Print the route packets take to the network host
    nc -zv [host] [port] - Check the open port on a remote host
    ss -tuln - List open sockets

    7. Advanced File System Operations


    mount -o loop [iso] [directory] - Mount an ISO file
    umask [mask] - Set file creation mask
    fsck [device] - Check and repair a filesystem

    8. Security
    gpg -c [file] - Encrypt a file
    gpg [file.gpg] - Decrypt a file
    ssh-keygen -t rsa - Generate an RSA key pair
    chmod 700 [directory] - Set directory permissions to be accessible only by
    the owner

    9. Backup and Restore


    rsync -av [source] [destination] - Synchronize files/directories
    dd if=[source] of=[destination] - Copy and convert files
    tar -cvpzf [backup.tar.gz] --exclude=[dir] [directory] - Create a
    compressed backup excluding certain directories

    10. Process Management


    bg - Resume a suspended job in the background
    fg - Bring a background job to the foreground
    jobs - List active jobs

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