The 50 Most Popular Linux and Terminal Commands (2021)

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The 50 Most Popular Linux and Terminal Commands (2021)

Learn the 50 most popular Linux commands from Colt Steele. All these commands work on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment.

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:04:37 - Why use the command line?

00:06:56 - The world of operating systems

00:10:56 - What is Linux?

00:16:58 - Shells and Bash

00:19:28 - Setup For Linux Users

00:20:28 - Setup For Mac Users

00:21:05 - Setup For Windows (WSL)

00:29:43 - Using The Terminal

00:31:12 - whoami

00:32:34 - man

00:33:40 - clear

00:36:42 - intro to options

00:39:05 - pwd

00:41:07 - ls

00:49:21 - cd

01:00:40 - mkdir

01:06:33 - touch

01:12:03 - rmdir

01:13:05 - rm

01:21:26 - open

01:23:55 - mv

01:27:51 - cp

01:31:56 - head

01:33:02 - tail

01:35:27 - date

01:36:02 - redirecting standard output

01:41:48 - cat

01:46:15 - less

01:49:17 - echo

01:51:38 - wc

01:53:52 - piping

01:56:43 - sort

02:01:09 - uniq

02:06:59 - expansions

02:17:08 - diff

02:21:01 - find

02:32:10 - grep

02:36:52 - du

02:40:55 - df

02:44:04 - history

02:47:32 - ps

02:51:50 - top

02:54:02 - kill

03:00:13 - killall

03:01:37 - jobs, bg, and fg

03:09:40 - gzip

03:12:18 - gunzip

03:15:27 - tar

03:23:36 -nano

03:31:17 - alias

03:42:48 - xargs

03:50:57 - ln

04:01:49 - who

04:03:47 - su

04:08:32 - sudo

04:18:36 - passwd

04:21:54 - chown

04:31:08 - Understanding permissions

04:47:15 - chmod

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