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Linux Shell Cheat Sheet

(courtesy of David Letscher)

Directories and ﬁles

List contents of current directory.

pwd

Give full path of current directory.

cd {path}

Change directories to path,

e.g. cd sub changes directory into the subdirectory named sub.

cd ..

Change current directory to the parent directory.

Change current directory to your home directory.

mkdir {dirname}

Create a directory named dirname.

rmdir {dirname}

Remove a directory name dirname (if empty).

mv {oldname} {newname}

Move/rename a ﬁle, e.g. mv foo foo.old renames the ﬁle foo to foo.old.

rm {ﬁlename}

Remove/delete a ﬁle.

cp {fromname} {toname}

Copy a ﬁle, e.g. cp foo foo.old copies foo to foo.old

cp -R {dirname} {toname}

Copy a directory, e.g. cp originalFiles myProject

Getting help

man {command}

Get help on the command, e.g. man ls for help on the ls command.

whatis {command}

Give short description of command.

apropos {keyword}

Search for all Linux commands that match keyword.

Viewing and editing ﬁles

cat {ﬁlename}

View a ﬁle.

more {ﬁlename}

View a ﬁle one screen at a time.

emacs {ﬁlename}

Edit a ﬁle.

emacs {ﬁlename} &

Edit a ﬁle in a separate window (if graphical login)

C++

g++ -o {executableName} {sourcecode.cpp}

compile sourcecode.cpp into executable

g++ -c {sourcecode.cpp}

compile sourcecode.cpp into object code sourcecode.o

make

(re)build an executable based upon makeﬁle.

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