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Useful commands

Shell commands can refer to various things:

To find your way around the command-line in Debian and other Linux distributions, you will want to learn how to use some basic commands, then dive into more advanced shell scripting progressively.

Here is a list of commonly used commands, along with some examples. Each command link to its manpage or wiki page. To get more info about a command, remember to use ?ManPages. It's your first help !

To know what package provides a specific program, use Search the contents of packages on https://packages.debian.org/

Shell builtins

Here are some builtins provided by Bash, the default shell in Debian. See the bash manpage:

Text search/replace/manipulation

The following tools can help you perform complex searches, replacements and scripted editing in text files:

Compression

See Compression

Other programs


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