Ultimate List of Linux bash commands

Bash is the Unix command-line interface (CLI). Also called the terminal, the command line, or the shell. It's a command language that allows us to work with files on our computers in a way that's far more efficient and powerful than using a GUI (graphical user interface).

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│ A │ B │ C │ D │ E │ F │ G │ H │ I │ J │ K │ L │ M │ N │ O │ P │ Q │ R │ S │ T │ U │ V │ W │ X │ Y │ Z │

</div> <h2> A</h2> <table class="tg"> <tbody> <tr> <th class="tg-yw4l">Command</th> <th class="tg-yw4l">Description</th> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">accept</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Accept or Reject jobs to a destination, such as a printer.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">access</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Check a user’s RWX(read, write and execute) permission for a file.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">accton</td> <td class="tg-yw4l"> Used to turn on or turn off the process for accounting or change info process accounting file.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">aclocal</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to automatically generate aclocal.m4 files from configure.in file.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">aconnect</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">ALSA(Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) sequencer connection manager.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">acpi</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Show information about the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">acpi_available</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Check if ACPI(Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) functionality exists on the system.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">acpid</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Informs user-space programs about ACPI events.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">addr2line</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to convert addresses into file names and line numbers.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">addresses</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Formats for internet mail addresses.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">agetty</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">An alternative Linux Getty that manages physical or virtual terminals to allow multi-user access</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">alias</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Create an alias, a shortcut that references a command.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">alsactl</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Access advanced controls for ALSA soundcard driver.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">amidi</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Perform read/write operation for ALSA RawMIDI ports.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">amixer</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Access CLI-based mixer for ALSA soundcard driver.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">anacron</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to run commands periodically.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">aplay</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Sound recorder and player for CLI.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">aplaymidi</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">CLI utility used to play MIDI files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">apm</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Show Advanced Power Management (APM) hardware info on older systems.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">apmd</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to handle events reported by APM BIOS drivers.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">apropos</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Shows the list of all man pages containing a specific keyword.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">apt</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Advanced Package Tool, a package management system for Debian and derivatives.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">apt-get</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Command-line utility to install/remove/update packages based on APT system.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">aptitude</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Another utility to add/remove/upgrade packages based on the APT system.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">ar</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">A utility to create/modify/extract from archives.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">arch</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Display print machine hardware name.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">arecord</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Just like aplay, it’s a sound recorder and player for ALSA soundcard driver.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">arecordmidi</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Record standard MIDI files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">arp</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to make changes to the system’s ARP cache.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">as</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">A portable GNU assembler.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">aspell</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">An interactive spell checker utility.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">at</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to schedule command execution at specified date & time, reading commands from an input file.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">atd</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to execute jobs queued by the at command.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">atq</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">List a user’s pending jobs for the at command.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">atrm</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Delete jobs queued by the at command.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">audiosend</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to send an audio recording as an email.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">aumix</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">An audio mixer utility.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">autoconf</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Generate configuration scripts from a TEMPLATE-FILE and send the output to standard output.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">autoheader</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Create a template header for configure.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">automake</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Creates GNU standards-compliant Makefiles from template files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">autoreconf</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Update generated configuration files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">autoscan</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Generate a preliminary configure.in file.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">autoupdate</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Update a configure.in file to newer autoconf.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">awk</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">A scripting language used for manipulating data and generating reports. Also used to find and replace text in a file(s).</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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<h2> B</h2> <table class="tg"> <tbody> <tr> <th class="tg-yw4l">Command</th> <th class="tg-yw4l">Description</th> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">badblocks</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Search a disk partition for bad sectors.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">banner</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to print characters as a poster.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">basename</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to display filenames with directory or suffix.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bash</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">GNU Bourne-Again Shell.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">batch</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to run commands entered on a standard input.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bc</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Access the GNU bc calculator utility.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bg</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Send processes to the background.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">biff</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Notify about incoming mail and sender’s name on a system running comsat server.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bind</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to attach a name to a socket.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bison</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">A GNU parser generator, compatible with yacc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">break</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to exit from a loop (eg: for, while, select).</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">builtin</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to run shell builtin commands, make custom functions for commands extending their functionality.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bzcmp</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to call the cmp program forbzip2 compressed files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bzdiff</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to call the diff program for bzip2 compressed files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bzgrep</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to call grep for bzip2 compressed files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bzip2</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">A block-sorting file compressor used to shrink given files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bzless</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to apply ‘less’ (show info one page at a time) to bzip2 compressed files.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">bzmore</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to apply ‘more’ (an inferior version of less) to bzip2 compressed files.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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<h2> C</h2> <table class="tg"> <tbody> <tr> <th class="tg-yw4l">Command</th> <th class="tg-yw4l">Description</th> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">cal</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Show calendar.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">cardctl</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to control PCMCIA sockets and select configuration schemes.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">cardmgr</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Keeps an eye on the added/removes sockets for PCMCIA devices.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">case</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Execute a command conditionally by matching a pattern.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">cat</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to concatenate files and print them on the screen.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">cc</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">GNU C and C++ compiler.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">ccrypt</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used for encryption and decryption of data.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">cd</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to change directory.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tg-yw4l">cdda2wav</td> <td class="tg-yw4l">Used to rip a CD-ROM and make WAV