Category: Command Line

Find and copy all files with ‘.txt’ extention from a directory to another find /home/binnyva -name ‘*.txt’ | xargs cp…

Use this command to change the default shell you are using. chsh

Use this command to mount a share on a windows system. It uses Samba. mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //WinClient/share…

Sort contents of a file and remove repeated lines sort file.txt | uniq

Restoring a backup created by the dump command. restore -if home_backup.bak

Show all deb packages installed on the system dpkg -l

Make a incremental backup of directory ‘/home/binnyva’ dump -1aj -f home.bak /home/binnyva/

Make a full backup of directory ‘/home’ dump -0aj -f home.bak /home

Show specials attributes lsattr

Makes a file immutable – it can not be removed, altered, renamed or linked chattr +i file