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tail - output the last part of files.

head - output the first part of files

less - to browse a file one page at a time

nl - number lines of files.

cat - print and concatenate files.

touch - change file timestamps, or create a file if the file does not exist.

rm - remove files or directories.

cp - copy files and folders.

mv - Move or rename files and directories.

rmdir - Removes a directory.

mkdir - Creates a directory. Current user must have write permission in the current directory in order to create a new directory.

grep command, which stands for “global regular expression print,” processes text line by line
and prints any lines which match a specified pattern.

To print only the matched part, use -o option

pwd - Print full name of current/working directory.

cd - Change the shell working directory.

ls - one of the most common commands in Linux. This command lists directory contents. It can also list permissions, owner, size etc. It sorts the file alphabetically by default.