Linux Commands for Developers and Linus users

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Basic Commands

File and Directory Management

tar - Archive files

  tar -cvf <archive_name>.tar <file_or_directory>

gzip - Compress files
```
  gzip <file_name>
```
find - Search for files in a directory hierarchy
```
  find <directory_path> -name <file_name>
```
locate - Find files by name
```
  locate <file_name>
```

System Information and Monitoring

top - Display Linux processes
```
  top
```
free - Display amount of free and used memory in the system
```
  free -h
```
df - Display disk space usage
```
  df -h
```
du - Estimate file space usage
```
  du -h <directory_path>
```
uname - Display system information
```
  name -a
```

Networking

ifconfig - Configure network interfaces
```
  ifconfig
```
ping - Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
```
  ping <host_name_or_ip>
```
netstat - Display network connections, routing tables, and more
```
  netstat -a
```
ssh - Connect to a remote machine securely
```
  ssh <user>@<host_name_or_ip>
```

scp - Securely copy files between hosts

  scp <file_name> <user>@<host_name_or_ip>:<destination_path>

Text Processing

sed - Stream editor for filtering and transforming text
```
  sed 's/old_text/new_text/g' <file_name>
```
awk - Pattern scanning and text processing language
```
  awk '{print $1}' <file_name>
```
sort - Sort lines of text files
```
  sort <file_name>
```
uniq - Report or omit repeated lines
```
  uniq <file_name>
```
cut - Remove sections from each line of files
```
  cut -d' ' -f1 <file_name>
```

Advanced Commands

cron - Schedule tasks to run at specific times
```
  crontab -e
```
rsync - Remote file synchronization
```
  rsync -avz <source> <destination>
```
iptables - Linux firewall configuration
```
  iptables -L
```
lsof - List open files
```
  lsof -i
```
strace - Trace system calls and signals
```
  strace <command>
```

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