UNIX

COMMANDS
 File Commands
1) cat
2) cp
3) mv
4) rm

cat command:

1) Creating the new file

2) Display content of the file
3) Concatenating more than one file
4) Appending data to the existing file
5) Copying many files in to one single file.

Ex:

1) Creating the new file:

$cat >paypal.txt
--------
--------
--------
ctrl+d

2) Dispay data in the file:

$cat < paypal.txt

or
$cat paypal.txt

3) Concatenation of files:

$cat paypal.txt google.txt

4) Copying data from many file to single file:

$cat paypal.txt google.txt >amazon.txt

ls : Used for listing /display all the files in the curreny directory.

cp command:

1) copy contents from a file to another file(source->destination)

2)copy files from one directory to another directory.

Example:
$ cp paypal.txt google.txt

mv command:

1) Used for renaming a file(changing name of the file)

2) Renaming a directory
3) Moves files from one directory to another directory

Example:
$mv paypal.txt funpal.txt --> renaming a file
$mv chennai hyd --> renaming a directory
$mv google.txt hyd -->here the file google moves to hyd
directory

** Note: If we use cp command duplicate files will be crated

**If we use mv command file will be moved to target location(no duplicates)

rm command: used for delete/removing a file/directory.

Example:

$ rm google.txt --> it deletes file directly without

confirmation
$ rm -i google.txt -->deletes file with confirmation
$rm -r hyd

** Here this commands removes hyd directory even thou its having sub directories
& files.
* But rmdir command removes directory when it should be empty.
* -r is recursive

Unix directory commands

1. Mkdir
2. cd
3. rmdir

mkdir: Creating a directory which has set of files & sub directories.

Example:

$mkdir hyd
$mkdir chennai

cd: Used for changing/closing directory

Example:

$cd chennai
$chennai>

If we want to come back to my previous directory we can use like

$chennai>cd ..
$ cd --> come back to root directory

If we want to come back more than one directory then

$chennai>places>cd ../.. --> this command is back

to 2 directories
 rmdir: Used for removes/deletes directory only if is empty.

Example:

$rmdir chennai

Unix Miscellaneous commands

 ls
 pwd
 ln
 head
 tail
 cal
 ps
 kill
 who
 whoami
 uptime
 ut

ls : This command displays files and directories in columnar format.

Example:
$ ls
$ ls -S

Arrange the files based on the size(S is upper letter)

$ ls -l

long listing the files

$ ls -a

Displays hidden files

$ ls -i

Displays inodes for each file

$ ls -R

Displays all directories along with subdirectories in current working directory.

creating a hidden file:

$ cat >.employee.txt

Wild card characters using with ls command.

? Represents single character

* Represents gruop of characters
[ ] Represents searching pattern

Examples:
$ ls ? Displays files with one letter
$ ls x* Displays files which are starting with 'x'
$ ls ??? Displays files with 3 letters
$ ls *.out Displays all the files with extension 'out'
$ ls [a-z] Displays single character files which are from a to z
$ ls [a-z]* Displays files starting with a to z
$ rm ? Removes the files with single character
$ rm *.c Removes the files with extension 'c'
$ cp ? chennai Single digit files will be copied into directory 'chennai'

pwd : This command shows current working directory in unix

$ pwd

head : Used to display First lines of the file

Example:
$ head paypal.txt
This command displays default 10 lines of the file paypal.txt
$ head -n15 paypal.txt
This command displays 15 lines of the file paypal.txt
$ head -n3 paypal.txt
 This command displays 3 lines of the file paypal.txt
tail : Used to display last lines of the file.
Ex:
$ tail paypal.txt
This command displays default last 9 lines.
$ tail -n5 paypal.txt
This command displays last 4 lines of the file.
$ tail -n15 paypal.txt
This command displays last 14 lines of the file.

cal command: Used for display the calender.

Ex:
$ cal 2011 Displays 2011 calender
$ cal 2 2011 Displays Feb month in 2011 year

ln :
1.This will create link between 2 files.(2nd file should new one)
2. If one file modified another one affected.
Ex:
$ln paypal.txt funpal.txt

ps : Knowing backgroud process running /stopped

$ ps pid

kill : Used for terminating the process

Ex:
$ kill pid

who : Used for to display who are working in the system

Ex:
$ who

whoami: Display my user name/accout

Ex:
$ whoami
uptime: This command used for display load in the server.
 Unix Filter Commands
1) grep
2) sort
3) more
4) cut
5) wc
6) uniq

1) grep: (Global Regular Expression Pattern)

This command is used for searching a required patern in a file.

Syntax:
$ grep [- optopn] "search patern" Filename [redirection symbol newfilename]

Options:

-i Ignores case sensitiveness in searching patern

-n displays line numbers for those lines which gets matched and un matched with
the patern
-c counts number of times a searching patern exists and does not exists
-v (verbose) Displays those lines that does not match with the patern

Example:

$ cat > paypal.txt

welcome to unix
paypal welcomes you
unix multi user os
WELCOME to the world of unix

$ grep "welcome" paypal.txt

$ grep -i "welcome" paypal.txt
$ grep -i -n "welcome" paypal.txt
$ grep -i -c "welcome" paypal.txt
$ grep -i -v "welcome" paypal.txt
$ grep -i -v -n "welcome" paypal.txt > funpal.txt
Sort : Used to arrange numbers/text in ascending/descending order.

* by default it arranges ascending order.

Syntax:

$ sort [-option] [redirection synbol ] filename

[redirection synbol] [new filename]

options:

-r Arrage data in reverse or descending order

-n Arrage data in ascending or descending order by considering whole number.
* if n is not used then numbers gets arranged in order based on 1st digit.

Ex1:

$ sort > paypal.txt

6
2
9
1
5
3

$ cat paypal.txt Ascending order

$ sort -r paypal.txt > funpal.txt  Descending order
$cat funpal.txt

Ex2:

$ sort >google.txt
176
2165
8
93
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------ [ctrl+d]
$cat google.txt It considered first digit
$sort -n google.txt > yahoo.txt It considered whole
number.

more: This filter command used to display information from multiple files based n
page wise.

It gives an identification of end of file for first file and begining of next file.

Syn:

$more [-option] file1,file2,file3, etc...

options:

-p clears the screen and displays next file in the list of files

*note:

Enterkey retrives next file based on %s

spacebar retrieves complete data from next file

Ex: $more - p paypal.txt funpal.txt

cut: Used to cut the required text from a file.It can cut the data on the columns and
feilds.

Syntax:

$ cut [-option] filename [redirection symbol new filename]

-c To cut the data in columns

-f To cut the data in feilds that is that data which is separated by tab.

Ex1:

$ cat>paypal.txt
Hyderabad
Secunderabad
Andhra [ctrl+d]

$ cut -c1 paypal.txt [Enter]

H
S
A

$cut -c3 paypal.txt [Enter]

d
c
d

$cut -c1 -3 paypal.txt [Enter]

Hyd
Sec
And

Ex2:

$cat > funpal.txt [Enter]

India Delhi
Andhra Hyderabad
Peers Net
[ctrl+d]

$ cut -f1 funpal.txt [Enter]

India
Andhra
Peers

$ cut -f2 funpal.txt [Enter]

Delhi
Hyderabad
Net
wc: It will count number of lines,worlds,characters in a file.

Syntax:

$ wc [-option] filename

options:

-l count number of lines

-w count number of words
-c count number of characters

Ex:

$ wc -l paypal.txt
$ wc -w paypal.txt
$ wc -c paypal.txt

uniq: This filter is used to get the uniq or duplicate lines from a file.Data should be in
order.

Syntax: $ unix [-option] filename

options:

-d Display duplicate lines

-u Display uniq lines
-c Counts number of times each word has occured in a file

Ex:

$ cat > city.txt

ameerpet
ameerpet
peers
bhel
hyderabad
ameerpet
peers
secunderabad [ctrl+d]

$ sort city.txt> city1.txt

$cat city1.txt Ascending order of data displaying

$ uniq -u city1.txt

$ uniq -d city1.txt

$ uniq -c city1.txt

Unix File compare commands

1. cmp
2. diff
3.comm

cmp: It comapares 2 files.If files are same it returns promp or else it returns the
message where the difference encountered.

Syn: $ cmp file1 file2

Ex: $ cmp paypal.txt funpal.txt

diff: This command compares 2files like cmp.If any difference found in 2 files it
displays those lines.

Ex:

$ diff paypal.txt funpal.txt

comm : Used to compare 2 sorted files.It provides out put in 3 columns.

* In first column displays uniq lines of first file.

* In second column displays uniq lines of second file
* In third column displays common lines in 2 files.
Ex:-

Step1 : Create two files with some data

$ cat> paypal.txt
risk
payments
ebay
uv
norkom

$ cat> funpal.txt
foodball
cricket
crems
ebay
payments

Step2: Sort above files and store the data into another 2 different files

$ sort paypal.txt paypal1.txt [Enter]

$ sort funpal.txt funpal1.txt [Enter]

Step3: Use comm command

$ comm paypal1.txt funpal1.txt [Enter]

** output shows in 3 different columns.

Unix File Access Permissions – Chmod

chmod: It provides permissions over a file in 3 categories.

1) owners
2) groups
3) others

Permissions which can be granted are read,write and execute

1) read (r)
2) write (w)
3) execute (e)

These permissions are represented with numeric values

r- 4
w- 2
e- 1
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7
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Owners are users whose files gets referred from their respective accounts.
Groups are users whose accounts are dependent on the other accounts.
Others are users who can access the files of other users.

Chmod command is used to change the permissions for a file or directory.

Syntax:

$ chmod FAP Filename

* FAP is file access permissions

Examples:

$ chmod ooo paypal.txt

No permissions to owners,groups and others

$ chmod 777 paypal.txt

All permissions to owners,groups and others

$ chmod 444 paypal.txt

Read permission to owners,groups and others (4 - read)

$ chmod 600 paypal.txt

Read(4),write(2) permissions to owners, no permissions to groups and others

$ chmod 664 paypal.txt

Read,write permissions to owners,groups and read permission to others

$ chmode 111 paypal.txt

Execute permission to owners,groups and others

Change permissions using name of the permission:

Examples:

$ chmod u-w g-w o-r paypal.txt

* write permission cancelled from owner

* write permission cancelled from groups
* read permission cancelled from others

$ chmod u+rwx g+rwx o+r paypal.txt

* read,write,execute permissions added to owners

* read,write,execute permissions added to groups
* read permission added to others

** Note: + used for giving permissions.

- is used for removing permissions.

 Interview FAQ’S on Unix Commands
1) How to find hidden files in current directory?

$ ls -lrta

2) How to find current running processes in unix server?

$ ps -ef

and if we want to find specific process we can use 'grep' with pipe
$ ps -ef | grep -i 'application'

3) How to find process which is taking maximum memory in server?

$ top
top command tell us about cpu usage , process id and other details. below is output of top
command

4) How to find Exception in log files available in current directory and how to find number
of occurrence?

$ grep 'Exception' log1.txt | wc -l

5) find all files in current and subdirectories which contains 'log' name?

$ find . -name 'log'

6) How do you access command line arguments from within a shell script?

Arguments passed from the command line to a shell script can be accessed within the shell script
by using a $ (dollar sign) immediately followed with the argument's numeric position on the
command line.
7) How to tails last 200 lines of any log fine?

$ tail -200f filename.txt

8) How to find remaining disk space in unix\linux server?

$ df -kl

df -kl
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on

/dev/disk0s2 244277768 153679844 90341924 63% 38483959 22585481 63% /

9) How to make any script file executable?

$chmod 755 *.sh

10) How to kill process in unix server?

$ kill -9 #pid
these #pid can be found using ps -ef command.