Linux Basic Command

Basic Commands

pwd command:

The 'pwd' is the basic Linux commands. It is used for prints the absolute path to current working directory.

Syntax:            $pwd

                        /home/tias

cal command:

The 'cal' command is the command for the 'calender'. This command is use to display the calender of current month.

Syntax:         $cal

date command: 

The date command is use to display the current date of the system. As its name shows it work as.

Syntax:       $date

If we only want to show the time we can use 'date +%T' . It show the time in this format

 'hh:mm:ss'.

Syntax:       $date +%T

whoami command:

This command is used to reveals the user who is currently logged in in the system.

Syntax:       $whoami

tty command: 

The 'tty' command is used to print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input.

Syntax:        $tty

id command: 

This command is used  to prints user and groups (UID and GID) of the current user.

Syntax:      $id

Ls command: It is used to show the lists of directories content of files and directories.
Syntax:        $tty

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