The 50 Most Popular Linux & Terminal Commands

Learn the 50 most popular Linux commands from Colt Steele. All these commands work on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment. 🐱

✏️ Colt Steele developed this course.

🔗 The Linux Command Handbook by Flavio Copes: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-linux-commands-handbook/

🔗 If you want to learn more about terminal commands and become a software engineer, check out the bootcamp Colt built with Springboard: https://www.springboard.com/courses/software-engineering-career-track-cvs1/

⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️ ⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction ⌨️ (0:04:37) Why use the command line? ⌨️ (0:06:56) The world of operating systems ⌨️ (0:10:56) What is Linux? ⌨️ (0:16:58) Shells and Bash ⌨️ (0:19:28) Setup For Linux Users ⌨️ (0:20:28) Setup For Mac Users ⌨️ (0:21:05) Setup For Windows (WSL) ⌨️ (0:29:43) Using The Terminal ⌨️ (0:31:12) whoami ⌨️ (0:32:34) man ⌨️ (0:33:40) clear ⌨️ (0:36:42) intro to options ⌨️ (0:39:05) pwd ⌨️ (0:41:07) ls ⌨️ (0:49:21) cd ⌨️ (1:00:40) mkdir ⌨️ (1:06:33) touch ⌨️ (1:12:03) rmdir ⌨️ (1:13:05) rm ⌨️ (1:21:26) open ⌨️ (1:23:55) mv ⌨️ (1:27:51) cp ⌨️ (1:31:56) head ⌨️ (1:33:02) tail ⌨️ (1:35:27) date ⌨️ (1:36:02) redirecting standard output ⌨️ (1:41:48) cat ⌨️ (1:46:15) less ⌨️ (1:49:17) echo ⌨️ (1:51:38) wc ⌨️ (1:53:52) piping ⌨️ (1:56:43) sort ⌨️ (2:01:09) uniq ⌨️ (2:06:59) expansions ⌨️ (2:17:08) diff ⌨️ (2:21:01) find ⌨️ (2:32:10) grep ⌨️ (2:36:52) du ⌨️ (2:40:55) df ⌨️ (2:44:04) history ⌨️ (2:47:32) ps ⌨️ (2:51:50) top ⌨️ (2:54:02) kill ⌨️ (3:00:13) killall ⌨️ (3:01:37) jobs, bg, and fg ⌨️ (3:09:40) gzip ⌨️ (3:12:18) gunzip ⌨️ (3:15:27) tar ⌨️ (3:23:36) nano ⌨️ (3:31:17) alias ⌨️ (3:42:48) xargs ⌨️ (3:50:57) ln ⌨️ (4:01:49) who ⌨️ (4:03:47) su ⌨️ (4:08:32) sudo ⌨️ (4:18:36) passwd ⌨️ (4:21:54) chown ⌨️ (4:31:08) Understanding permissions ⌨️ (4:47:15) chmod

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