LINUX LAB

1.THE BASIC LINUX COMMANDS

1who
The who command prints information about all users
who are currently logged in to linux server.

2.who am 1
This command prints the username associated with the
current effective user ID.

3.DATE
The date command is used to print out, the system’s
time and date information.
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4.TIME
The time command reports how long it took for a
command to execute.

5.CAL
This command is used to display calendar.

6.PWD
Print the name of working directory.
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7.LS
Lists the content of directory.
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8.LS-L
Lists the total files in the directory and subdirectories,
the names of the file in the current directory, their
permissions, the size of file, and the last date of
modification.
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9.GREP
Grep stands for “global regular expression print,”
processes text line by line and prints any lines which
match a specified pattern.

10.WC
Wc command prints a count of newlines, words, and
bytes for each input file.

11.WALL
Wall command writes a message to everyone’s wall.
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12.WRITE
Write command send a message to other users.

13.SORT
Sort sorts the content of a text file, line by line.
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14.Head Command
Head command makes it easy to output the first part
of files i.e prints first 10 lines.

15.Tail Command
Tail outputs the last part of file i.e prints last 10 lines of
file.
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16.Pipe command
This command is used to send the output of one
program to another program for further processing.

17.Logout command
It is used to exit the session.
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18.Wild Card
This feature helps us in searching file if we know some
part or letter of file using ls command.

19.CLEAR
The clear command is used to clear the screen.
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2.Create a Directory Structure.

1.MKDIR
mkdir command is used to create directories on a
file system.

2.CD
The cd command allows to change the current
working directory.

3.CAT>A
The cat > filename command helps to create file
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4.CAT>>A
This command displays the content of a file.

5.CAT A
This command helps to append the contents of a
text file to the end of another text file.
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6.COPY COMMAND
The cp command is used to make copies of files
and directories.

7.MOVE COMMAND
The mv command is used to move file or rename
file.
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8.RM COMMAND
The rm command removes (deletes) files.

9.RMDIR
The rmdir command remove the directory.
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10.Tree Command
Tree lists the contents of a directories in a tree-like
format.
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CHMOD
Chmod command is used to change the
permissions of files or directories.
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SHELL SCRIPT
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1. WRITE A PROGRAM TO DISPLAY HELLO WORLD

2. WRITE A PROGRAM TO PROMPT NAME AND

CLASS
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3. WRITE A PROGRAM TO ADD TWO NUMBER

4. WRITE A PROGRAM TO RUN WHILE LOOP

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5. WRITE A PROGRAM TO CHECK WHETHER NO.

ODD OR EVEN

6. WRITE A PROGRAM TO FIND FACTORIAL OF

NUMBER
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7.WRITE A PROGRAM TO CHECK WHETHER NO. IS

PRIME OR COMPOSITE
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8. WRITE A PROGRAM TO RUN FIBONACCI SERIES