Author: Binny V A

Remove two directories and their contents recursively rm -rf dir1 dir2

Remove a directory called ‘dir’ and contents recursively rm -rf dir

Create a compressed iso image of cdrom on disk mkisofs /dev/cdrom | gzip > cd_iso.gz

Convert from lower case to upper case echo ‘hello world’ | tr ‘[:lower:]’ ‘[:upper:]’

Starting SSHD – 2 methods sudo /usr/sbin/sshd sudo service sshd start

Install a package using dpkg in Debian linux dpkg -i package

Shows all PCI devices in your system using this command lspci -tv

I usually install these packages after I install Debian/KDE in a Laptop. apt-get install … kdebase k3b gcc vlc xine-ui…

Show version of the kernel cat /proc/version

This command lists all known encodings iconv -l