Day 107: Commands I Know About

Its Day 107 23:41 Philippine Time. Darn it is hot tonight. Lights are out outside so far nobody is watching in the dark. Otherwise my spider senses are broken. This is a personal log of the commands that I can summon from my razor sharp encyclopedic memory.

ls

• The same with dir, lists folders and files. I assume it must mean list.
  
• Use with | more to view large lists of things

cp

• The same with copy, copies files and folders from one place to another

mv

• The same with move, moves files and folders from one place to another
• Another way of renaming a folder

dpkg -i

• Cool command to install *.deb files that I download from the Internet

apt-get install

• Cool command to install cool stuff from inside the repositories
  

apt-get remove

• Command used to remove uncool stuff from the repositories

aptitude

• Apt-get's cousin. Instead of apt-get remove, use aptitude remove
• This is apt-get's from the city. Explains more and talks more.

apt-cache search

• Searches for cool stuff that you could find in the repositories

sudo

• Use with care. Command use to boss around the computer if it does not do as you wish

su

• Tells computer that I Am Who Am so you better do as I say.

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

• Used to reconfigure xorg and basically graphical thingies

reboot

• Must be run by a sudoer or by root. Reboots the system!

shutdown -h now

• Shuts down PC properly

rm

• Removes files. Similar to windows del. Can also be used to remove folders. NEVER run rm -rf: Deletes entire system!
  

More to come when I remember them.