Example Commands for Ubuntu/Linux
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debconf
Debconf is a configuration system for Debian packages. ...
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debugfs
The debugfs program is an interactive file system debug...
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deluser
deluser and delgroup remove users and groups from the s...
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dhparam
This command is used to manipulate DH parameter files..
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dirmngr
Since version 2.1 of GnuPG, dirmngr takes care of acces...
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dirname
Output each NAME with its last non-slash component and ...
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dmsetup
dmsetup manages logical devices that use the device-map...
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dmstats
The dmstats program manages IO statistics regions for d...
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dnsmasq
dnsmasq is a lightweight DNS, TFTP, PXE, router adverti...
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dosfsck
fsck.fat verifies the consistency of MS-DOS filesystems...
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ecparam
This command is used to manipulate or generate EC param...
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elfedit
elfedit updates the ELF header of ELF files which have ...
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faillog
faillog displays the contents of the failure log databa...
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findmnt
findmnt will list all mounted filesystems or search for...
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getconf
-a Displays all configuration variables for the current...
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getfacl
For each file, getfacl displays the file name, owner, t...
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gettext
The gettext program translates a natural language messa...
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git-add
This command updates the index using the current conten...
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git-tag
Add a tag reference in refs/tags/, unless -d/-l/-v is g...
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gpasswd
The gpasswd command is used to administer /etc/group, a...
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gpg-zip
This manual page documents briefly the gpg-zip command....
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gpgconf
The gpgconf is a utility to automatically and reasonabl...
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grpconv
The pwconv command creates shadow from passwd and an op...
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hexdump
The hexdump utility is a filter which displays the spec...
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hwclock
hwclock is an administration tool for the time clocks.
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ibd2sdi
ibd2sdi is a utility for extracting serialized dictiona...
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infocmp
infocmp can be used to compare a binary terminfo entry ...
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install
This install program copies files (often just compiled)...
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ip-link
ip link add - add virtual link link DEVICE specifies th...
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json_pp
json_pp converts between some input and output formats ...
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killall
killall sends a signal to all processes running any of ...
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lexgrog
lexgrog is an implementation of the traditional “groff ...
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linux32
setarch currently only affects the output of uname -m. ...
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linux64
setarch currently only affects the output of uname -m. ...
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listres
The listres program generates a list of a widget's reso...
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logname
Print the name of the current user. --help display this...
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logsave
The logsave program will execute cmd_prog with the spec...
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lslocks
lslocks lists information about all the currently held ...
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lvmconf
lvmconf is a script that modifies the locking configura...
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lvmdump
lvmdump is a tool to dump various information concernin...
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lvmetad
The lvmetad daemon caches LVM metadata so that LVM comm...
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manconv
manconv converts a manual page from one encoding to ano...
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manpath
If $MANPATH is set, manpath will simply display its con...
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mapscrn
The mapscrn command is obsolete - its function is now b...
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mcookie
mcookie generates a 128-bit random hexadecimal number f...
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mkdosfs
mkfs.fat is used to create an MS-DOS filesystem under L...
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mlocate
locate reads one or more databases prepared by updatedb...
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modinfo
modinfo extracts information from the Linux Kernel modu...
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netstat
Netstat prints information about the Linux networking s...
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nsenter
Enters the namespaces of one or more other processes an...
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