Linux Commands

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Contents 1 Commands 2 Permissions and Ownership 3 Others 4 Archiving 5 Linux directory structure

[edit] Commands

• Basic list of linux commands: http://blog.lxpages.com/ultimate_linux.html (Printer friendly version)

[edit] Permissions and Ownership

• Change Permissions: chmod

e.g. from pauli, how to make all the users/acl folders, files and subfolders 775:

>chmod 775 -R /home/ACL/acl

• Change Owner: chown

e.g. from pauli, how to make all the users/acl folders, files and subfolders owner acl and group Domain Users:

>chown acl:"Domain Users" -R /home/ACL/acl

• Change Just Group: chgrp

For more detail and information about Linux permissions, see:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions
• http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20030417.html
• http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20030424.html

[edit] Others

• Change Password: passwd

e.g. change root password:

>sudo passwd root

• How to SCP (i.e. copy files across Linux machines)

[edit] Archiving

• Archive and Unarchiving folders and files: gzip & gunzip

>gzip -r [folder/file]

>gunzip -r [folder/file]

[edit] Linux directory structure

• http://www.cae.wisc.edu/site/public/?title=lindir