vBulletin LTS

List of SSH Commands

by HMBeaty 02 Sep 2011

Feel free to add more to the list if you have any as I'm sure there are more that I've missed

Display everything in the current directory

Code:

ls

Display all files, including hidden files

Code:

ls -a

Display all files, along with the size and timestamp

Code:

ls -l

Uncompress tar.gz files

Code:

tar -zxpf file.tar.gz

Uncompress .tar files

Code:

tar -xpf file.tar.gz

Uncompress .gz files

Code:

gunzip file

Copy a file to a new file

Code:

cp file

Move a file to a new file, or rename

Code:

mv file

Create a directory

Code:

mkdir dir

Delete a directory

Code:

rmdir dir

Delete a directory

Code:

rm -rf dir

Delete a file

Code:

rm file

Move to a directory

Code:

cd dir

Move to a lower directory

Code:

cd ..

Move to the home directory

Code:

cd ~

Move to the previous directory

Code:

cd -

View processes and server loads (press 'q' to stop viewing)

Code:

top

Create or edit a file

Code:

vi file

Display the current directory

Code:

pwd

Edit a file

Code:

pico file

Edit a file

Code:

nano file

Connect to a FTP server

Code:

ftp site

View a webpage

Code:

lynx site

Display the hard drive stats

Code:

df

Display your quota

Code:

quota

Display the uptime of the server

Code:

uptime

Display the operating system stats

Code:

uname -a

Display your info

Code:

whoami

Display other users connected to the server

Code:

who

Display the last login

Code:

last

Tell where a file is located

Code:

whereis file

Check your email

Code:

mail

Display processes you're running

Code:

ps -x

Display all processes running

Code:

ps -a

Display running processes, with CPU/Memory usage

Code:

ps -ux

Kill a process

Code:

kill pid

Kill an eggdrop process

Code:

kill -9 pid

Kill all running process of the same type

Code:

killall program

Description of a command

Code:

whatis command

Display help on the command

Code:

man command

Report of the process list, 1 minute and 5 minute average load every 10 minutes since midnight server time

Code:

sar -q

Tars up the file or directory of your choice (Replace filename.tar.gz with the name you want your tar file to have, with the tar.gz extension on the end and replace file with the file or directory you want to tar up)

Code:

tar -zcf filename.tar.gz file

Update the locate/search DB

Code:

updatedb

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