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| go to your home directory |
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| go to the last directory you were in |
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| go up a directory cat : print file contents to the screen |
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| shows all files (including ones that start with a period), directories, and details attributes for each file. |
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0 = --- No permission
1 = --X Execute only
2 = -W- Write only
3 = -WX Write and execute
4 = R-- Read only
5 = R-X Read and execute
6 = RW- Read and write
7 = RWX Read, write and execute
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changes file ownership permissions
The set of 2 go in this order from left to right:
USER - GROUP |
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| Changes the owner of the file to root |
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| chown root.root myfile.txt : |
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| Changes the owner and group of the file to root |
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| like cat, but only reads the end of the file |
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| see the last 20 (by default) lines of /var/log/messages |
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| tail -f /var/log/messages |
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| watch the file continuously, while it's being updated |
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| tail -200 /var/log/messages |
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| print the last 200 lines of the file to the screen |
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| like cat, but opens the file one screen at a time rather than all at once |
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| browse through the userdomains file. hit Spaceto go to the next page, q to quit |
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| friendly, easy to use file editor |
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| pico /home/burst/public_html/index.html |
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| edit the index page for the user's website. |
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| another editor, tons of features, harder to use at first than pico |
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| vi /home/burst/public_html/index.html |
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edit the index page for the user's website.
Whie in the vi program you can use the following useful commands, you will need to hit SHIFT + : to go into command mode |
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| This force quits the file without saving and exits vi |
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| This writes the file to disk, saves it |
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| This saves the file to disk and exists vi |
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| EG :25 : Takes you to line 25 within the file |
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