Files
The following commands work with files:
bzip2, bunzip2 | Very high quality file compression and decompression. |
chgrp | Change the group of files and directories. |
chmod | Change the permissions (mode) of files and directories. |
chown | Change the owner of files and directories. |
cksum | Print a file checksum, POSIX standard algorithm. |
comm | Print or omit lines that are unique or common between two sorted files. |
cp | Copy files and directories. |
df | Show free disk space. |
diff | Compare files, showing differences. |
du | Show disk block usage of files and directories. |
file | Guess the type of data in a file by examining the first part of it. |
find | Descend one or more directory hierarchies finding filesystem objects (files, directories, special files) that match specified criteria. |
gzip, gunzip | High-quality file compression and decompression. |
head | Print the first n lines of one or more files. |
locate | Find a file somewhere on the system based on its name. The program uses a database of files that is usually rebuilt automatically, nightly. |
ls | List files. Options control the information shown. |
md5sum | Print a file checksum using the Message Digest 5 (MD5) algorithm. |
mkdir | Make directories. |
mktemp | Create a unique temporary file and print its name. Not universally available. |
od | Octal dump; print file contents in octal, hexadecimal, or as character data. |
patch | Update the contents of a given file to a newer version by reading the output of diff. |
pwd | Print the current ... |
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