List of most important commands

← AG Guhr

Navigate through the file system

• List all folders in current level -> ls
• Change directory to a folder in current level -> cd folder name
• Change directory back to previous folder -> cd ..
• Change directory to a folder two or more levels deeper -> cd folder name 1/folder name 2(/...)
• Copy one file into another directory -> cp file name complete file directory:home/...
• here are more basic commands [[1]]

System monitoring

• Print general hardware specification (for example core number) -> lscpu
• Print all active processes -> ps -x

(many processes are listed now -> search for example for process name with python -> note the process id)

• Kill one specific process by id -> kill -9 process id