# Basic Linux Commands

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* `man` -> we type man to get manual.
    
* eg. "man ls" we get all the commands related to the listing.
    
* man ls command
    
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* Description of manual command.
    

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* `clear` -> It is used to clear the terminal or screen.
    
* `clear -x` -> It clears the terminal but we can scroll to check the previous data.
    
* `pwd` -> Whenever we feel lost in the file system, call the pwd command to know where you are: It will print the current folder path.
    
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## listing command

* `ls` -> Inside a folder you can list all the files that the folder contains using the ls command.
    
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* `ls -l` -> provides a long form of a list.
    
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* `ls -a` -> also show .files from the list.
    

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    `ls -al` -> show both long-form and .files from the list.
    

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    `ls -i` -> print the index number of each file.
    

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## Change Directory

* `cd` -> cd means "change directory" which changes the path from one folder to another folder.
    
* eg. " cd A/ " so now we are in the A folder.
    

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    `cd ..` -> This means changing the directory to one folder back.
    

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    `cd ../../../..` -> This means changing directory to 4 folders back.
    
* **Make Directory**
    

* `mkdir` -> Means Make Directory or Make One Folder.
    
* eg. mkdir series -> so we made a series folder.
    

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    `mkdir -p` -> is used to create nested folder.
    
* eg. mkdir -p A/B/C/D/E so we created nested folder of A where we folder insider folder.
    

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