,name,description 0,&,Start a new process in the background 1,alias,Create an alias • 2,apropos,Search Help manual pages (man -k) 3,apt,Search for and install software packages (Debian/Ubuntu) 4,apt-get,Search for and install software packages (Debian/Ubuntu) 5,aptitude,Search for and install software packages (Debian/Ubuntu) 6,aspell,Spell Checker 7,at,Schedule a command to run once at a particular time 8,awk,"Find and Replace text, database sort/validate/index" 9,basename,Strip directory and suffix from filenames 10,base32,Base32 encode/decode data and print to standard output 11,base64,Base64 encode/decode data and print to standard output 12,bash,GNU Bourne-Again SHell 13,bc,Arbitrary precision calculator language 14,bg,Send to background 15,bind,Set or display readline key and function bindings • 16,break,Exit from a loop • 17,builtin,Run a shell builtin 18,bzip2,Compress or decompress named file(s) 19,cal,Display a calendar 20,caller,Return the context of any active subroutine call • 21,case,Conditionally perform a command 22,cat,Concatenate and print (display) the content of files 23,cd,Change Directory 24,cfdisk,Partition table manipulator for Linux 25,chattr,Change file attributes on a Linux file system 26,chgrp,Change group ownership 27,chmod,Change access permissions 28,chown,Change file owner and group 29,chpasswd,Update passwords in batch mode 30,chroot,Run a command with a different root directory 31,chkconfig,System services (runlevel) 32,cksum,Print CRC checksum and byte counts 33,cmp,Compare two files 34,comm,Compare two sorted files line by line 35,command,Run a command - ignoring shell functions • 36,continue,Resume the next iteration of a loop • 37,cp,Copy one or more files to another location 38,cpio,Copy files to and from archives 39,cron,Daemon to execute scheduled commands 40,crontab,Schedule a command to run at a later time 41,csplit,Split a file into context-determined pieces 42,curl,Transfer data from or to a server 43,cut,Divide a file into several parts 44,date,Display or change the date & time 45,dc,Desk Calculator 46,dd,"Data Duplicator - convert and copy a file, write disk headers, boot records" 47,ddrescue,Data recovery tool 48,declare,Declare variables and give them attributes • 49,df,Display free disk space 50,diff,Display the differences between two files 51,diff3,Show differences among three files 52,dig,DNS lookup 53,dir,Briefly list directory contents 54,dircolors,Colour setup for 'ls' 55,dirname,Convert a full pathname to just a path 56,dirs,Display list of remembered directories 57,dos2unix,Windows/MAC to UNIX text file format converter 58,dmesg,Print kernel & driver messages 59,dpkg,Package manager (Debian/Ubuntu). 60,du,Estimate file space usage 61,echo,Display message on screen • 62,egrep,Search file(s) for lines that match an extended expression 63,eject,Eject removable media 64,enable,Enable and disable builtin shell commands • 65,env,Environment variables 66,eval,Evaluate several commands/arguments 67,exec,Execute a command 68,exit,Exit the shell 69,expand,Convert tabs to spaces 70,export,Set an environment variable 71,expr,Evaluate expressions 72,false,"Do nothing, unsuccessfully" 73,fdformat,Low-level format a floppy disk 74,fdisk,Partition table manipulator for Linux 75,fg,Send job to foreground 76,fgrep,Search file(s) for lines that match a fixed string 77,file,Determine file type 78,find,Search for files that meet a desired criteria 79,fmt,Reformat paragraph text 80,fold,Wrap text to fit a specified width 81,for,"Expand words, and execute commands" 82,fsck,File system consistency check and repair 83,ftp,File Transfer Protocol 84,function,Define Function Macros 85,fuser,Identify/kill the process that is accessing a file 86,gawk,Find and Replace text within file(s) 87,getopts,Parse positional parameters 88,getfacl,Get file access control lists 89,grep,Search file(s) for lines that match a given pattern 90,groupadd,Add a user security group 91,groupdel,Delete a group 92,groupmod,Modify a group 93,groups,Print group names a user is in 94,gzip,Compress or decompress named file(s) 95,hash,Remember the full pathname of a name argument 96,head,Output the first part of file(s) 97,history,Command History 98,hostname,Print or set system name 99,htop,Interactive process viewer 100,iconv,Convert the character set of a file 101,id,Print user and group id's 102,if,Conditionally perform a command 103,ifconfig,Configure a network interface 104,ifdown,Stop a network interface 105,ifup,Start a network interface up 106,import,Capture an X server screen and save the image to file 107,install,Copy files and set attributes 108,iostat,Report CPU and i/o statistics 109,ip,"Routing, devices and tunnels" 110,jobs,List active jobs • 111,join,Join lines on a common field 112,kill,Kill a process by specifying its PID 113,killall,Kill processes by name 114,klist,List cached Kerberos tickets 115,less,Display output one screen at a time 116,let,Perform arithmetic on shell variables • 117,link,Create a link to a file 118,ln,Create a symbolic link to a file 119,local,Create a function variable • 120,locate,Find files 121,logname,Print current login name 122,logout,Exit a login shell • 123,look,Display lines beginning with a given string 124,lpc,Line printer control program 125,lpr,Print files 126,lprm,Remove jobs from the print queue 127,lsattr,List file attributes on a Linux second extended file system 128,lsblk,List block devices 129,ls,List information about file(s) 130,lsof,List open files 131,lspci,List all PCI devices 132,man,Help manual 133,mapfile,Read lines from standard input into an indexed array variable • 134,mkdir,Create new folder(s) 135,mkfifo,Make FIFOs (named pipes) 136,mkfile,Make a file 137,mknod,Make block or character special files 138,mktemp,Make a temporary file 139,more,Display output one screen at a time 140,most,Browse or page through a text file 141,mount,Mount a file system 142,mtools,Manipulate MS-DOS files 143,mtr,Network diagnostics (traceroute/ping) 144,mv,Move or rename files or directories 145,mmv,Mass Move and rename (files) 146,nc,"Netcat, read and write data across networks" 147,netstat,Networking connections/stats 148,nft,nftables for packet filtering and classification 149,nice,Set the priority of a command or job 150,nl,Number lines and write files 151,nohup,Run a command immune to hangups 152,notify-send,Send desktop notifications 153,nslookup,Query Internet name servers interactively 154,open,Open a file in its default application 155,op,Operator access 156,passwd,Modify a user password 157,paste,Merge lines of files 158,Perf,Performance analysis tools for Linux 159,ping,Test a network connection 160,pgrep,List processes by name 161,pkill,Kill processes by name 162,popd,Restore the previous value of the current directory 163,pr,Prepare files for printing 164,printenv,Print environment variables 165,printf,Format and print data • 166,ps,Process status 167,pushd,Save and then change the current directory 168,pv,Monitor the progress of data through a pipe 169,pwd,Print Working Directory 170,quota,Display disk usage and limits 171,quotacheck,Scan a file system for disk usage 172,ram,ram disk device 173,rar,Archive files with compression 174,rcp,Copy files between two machines 175,read,Read a line from standard input • 176,readarray,Read from stdin into an array variable • 177,readonly,Mark variables/functions as readonly 178,rename,Rename files 179,return,Exit a shell function 180,rev,Reverse lines of a file 181,rm,Remove files 182,rmdir,Remove folder(s) 183,rsync,Remote file copy (Synchronize file trees) 184,screen,"Multiplex terminal, run remote shells via ssh" 185,scp,Secure copy (remote file copy) 186,sdiff,Merge two files interactively 187,sed,Stream Editor 188,select,Accept user choices via keyboard input 189,seq,Print numeric sequences 190,set,Manipulate shell variables and functions 191,setfacl,Set file access control lists. 192,sha256sum,Compute and check SHA256 (256-bit) checksums 193,shift,Shift positional parameters 194,shopt,Shell Options 195,shuf,Generate random permutations 196,shutdown,Shutdown or restart linux 197,sleep,Delay for a specified time 198,slocate,Find files 199,sort,Sort text files 200,source,Run commands from a file '.'  • 201,split,Split a file into fixed-size pieces 202,ss,Socket Statistics 203,ssh,Secure Shell client (remote login program) 204,stat,Display file or file system status 205,strace,Trace system calls and signals 206,su,Substitute user identity 207,sudo,Execute a command as another user 208,sum,Print a checksum for a file 209,suspend,Suspend execution of this shell • 210,sync,Synchronize data on disk with memory 211,tabs,Set tabs on a terminal 212,tail,Output the last part of a file 213,tar,"Store, list or extract files in an archive" 214,tee,Redirect output to multiple files 215,test,Evaluate a conditional expression 216,time,Measure Program running time 217,timeout,Run a command with a time limit 218,times,User and system times 219,tmux,Terminal multiplexer 220,touch,Change file timestamps 221,top,List processes running on the system 222,tput,"Set terminal-dependent capabilities, color, position" 223,traceroute,Trace Route to Host 224,trap,Execute a command when the shell receives a signal • 225,tr,"Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters" 226,true,"Do nothing, successfully" 227,tsort,Topological sort 228,tty,Print filename of terminal on stdin 229,type,Describe a command • 230,ulimit,Limit user resources • 231,umask,Users file creation mask 232,unalias,Remove an alias • 233,uname,Print system information 234,unexpand,Convert spaces to tabs 235,uniq,Uniquify files 236,units,Convert units from one scale to another 237,unix2dos,UNIX to Windows or MAC text file format converter 238,unrar,Extract files from a rar archive 239,unset,Remove variable or function names 240,unshar,Unpack shell archive scripts 241,until,Execute commands (until error) 242,useradd,Create new user account 243,userdel,Delete a user account 244,usermod,Modify user account 245,users,List users currently logged in 246,uuencode,Encode a binary file 247,uudecode,Decode a file created by uuencode 248,vi,Text Editor 249,vmstat,Report virtual memory statistics 250,w,Show who is logged on and what they are doing 251,wait,Wait for a process to complete • 252,watch,Execute/display a program periodically 253,wc,"Print byte, word, and line counts" 254,whereis,"Search the user's $path, man pages and source files for a program" 255,which,Search the user's $path for a program file 256,while,Execute commands 257,who,Print all usernames currently logged in 258,whoami,Print the current user id and name ('id -un') 259,write,Send a message to another user 260,xargs,"Execute utility, passing constructed argument list(s)" 261,xdg-open,Open a file or URL in the user's preferred application. 262,xxd,Make a hexdump or do the reverse 263,xz,Compress or decompress .xz and .lzma files 264,yes,Print a string until interrupted 265,zip,Package and compress (archive) files 266,.,Run a command script in the current shell 267,!!,Run the last command again 268,###,Comment / Remark