Example Commands for Ubuntu/Linux
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git-rm
Remove files from the index, or from the working tree a...
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grotty
grotty translates the output of GNU troff into a form s...
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groups
Print group memberships for each USERNAME or, if no USE...
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gunzip
Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Z...
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hdparm
hdparm provides a command line interface to various ker...
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hostid
Print the numeric identifier (in hexadecimal) for the c...
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ifstat
ifstat neatly prints out network interface statistics. ...
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initdb
initdb creates a new PostgreSQL database cluster. A dat...
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ionice
This program sets or gets the I/O scheduling class and ...
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iostat
The iostat command is used for monitoring system input/...
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irb2.5
irb is the REPL(read-eval-print loop) environment for R...
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iscsid
The iscsid implements the control path of iSCSI protoco...
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ld.bfd
ld combines a number of object and archive files, reloc...
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lnstat
This manual page documents briefly the lnstat command. ...
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locale
The locale command displays information about the curre...
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locate
locate reads one or more databases prepared by updatedb...
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logger
logger makes entries in the system log. When the option...
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lsattr
lsattr lists the file attributes on a second extended f...
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ltrace
ltrace is a program that simply runs the specified comm...
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lvscan
lvscan scans all VGs or all supported LVM block devices...
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md5sum
Print or check MD5 (128-bit) checksums. With no FILE, o...
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mke2fs
mke2fs is used to create an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesys...
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mkfifo
Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs. Mandat...
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mkntfs
mkntfs is used to create an NTFS file system on a devic...
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mkswap
mkswap sets up a Linux swap area on a device or in a fi...
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mktemp
Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print...
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mpstat
The mpstat command writes to standard output activities...
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mtrace
mtrace is a Perl script used to interpret and provide h...
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netcat
The nc (or netcat) utility is used for just about anyth...
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nodejs
Node.js is a set of libraries for JavaScript which allo...
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ntfscp
ntfscp will copy file to an NTFS volume. destination ca...
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ntfsls
ntfsls is used to list information about the files spec...
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numfmt
Reformat NUMBER(s), or the numbers from standard input ...
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openvt
openvt will find the first available VT, and run on it ...
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parted
parted is a program to manipulate disk partitions. It s...
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passwd
The passwd command changes passwords for user accounts....
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peekfd
peekfd attaches to a running process and intercepts all...
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perror
perror displays the error message for MySQL or operatin...
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pg_ctl
pg_ctl is a utility for initializing a PostgreSQL datab...
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php7.2
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language...
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piconv
piconv is perl version of iconv, a character encoding c...
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pkcs12
The pkcs12 command allows PKCS#12 files (sometimes refe...
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printf
Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute accor...
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pstree
pstree shows running processes as a tree. The tree is r...
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pvmove
pvmove moves the allocated physical extents (PEs) on a ...
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pvscan
pvscan scans all supported LVM block devices in the sys...
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pwconv
The pwconv command creates shadow from passwd and an op...
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ranlib
ranlib generates an index to the contents of an archive...
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reboot
halt, poweroff, reboot may be used to halt, power-off o...
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rehash
On some platforms, the OpenSSL rehash command is availa...
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