Command Line

For a nice tutorial on using the command line for beginners, see the tilde.club tutorial.

Some useful utilies for use on the command line:

• who: see who is logged in.
• wall: brodcast a message to everyone logged on.
• talk: Talk to another used logged onto the system.
• wget, curl: grabs things from the internet.
• scp: securely moves files between network systems. (cp over ssh).
• rsync: A more powerful way to sync two networked folders. (dropbox in the terminal).
• lynx: a terminal webbrowser.
• sendmail: Send an email
• alpine, mutt: email clients
• weechat, irssi: IRC client.
• crontab: schedules recurring jobs or scripts
• aspell: spell checker
• motd: the message of the day for the server.
• nano: A very simple to use terminal editor.
• vim, emacs: more powerful editors.

Published: 2022-11-23

Tagged: misc