echo hello world

• passwd
• date
• hostname
• arch
• uname -a
• dmesg | more (you may need to press q to quit)
• uptime
• who am i
• who
• id
• last
• finger
• w
• top (you may need to press q to quit). prstat on Solaris.
• echo $SHELL
• echo {con,pre}{sent,fer}{s,ed}
• man "automatic door"
• man ls (you may need to press q to quit)
• man who (you may need to press q to quit)
• who can tell me why i am created
• lost
• clear
• cal 2000
• cal 9 1752 (do you notice anything unusual?)
• bc -l (type quit or press Ctrl-d to quit)
• echo 5+4 | bc -l
• yes please (you may need to press Ctrl-c to quit)
• time sleep 5
• history

root@localhost ~]# echo hello world

hello world

[root@localhost ~]# passwd

Changing password for user root.
New UNIX password:

[root@localhost ~]# date

Thu Aug 12 15:49:32 IST 2010

[root@localhost ~]# hostname // show or set the system’s host name

localhost.localdomain

[root@localhost ~]# arch //prints machine architecture

i686
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a //print all system information
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:44:23 EST 2009 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux

[root@localhost ~]# dmesg|more

Displays system diagnostic messages as well as a list of devices attached to the system
since the most recent restart.

[root@localhost ~]# uptime //Tells how long the system has been running.
16:22:08 up 9:00, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.09, 0.02

[root@localhost ~]# who am i //shows who is logged on

root pts/1 2010-08-12 15:55 (:0.0)

[root@localhost ~]# who //all the users who have logged on

root :0 2010-08-12 07:24
root pts/1 2010-08-12 15:55 (:0.0)
root pts/2 2010-08-12 16:28 (:0.0)

[root@localhost ~]# id //print user identity

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel)
context=root:system_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh

[root@localhost ~]# last //show listing of last logged in users

root pts/2 :0.0 Thu Aug 12 16:28 still logged in
root pts/1 :0.0 Thu Aug 12 15:55 still logged in
root pts/4 :0.0 Thu Aug 12 13:13 - 15:54 (02:41)
root pts/3 :0.0 Thu Aug 12 12:57 - 15:11 (02:14)
...

[root@localhost ~]# finger //user information lookup program

[root@localhost ~]# w //Show who is logged on and what they are doing.
16:36:39 up 9:15, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root :0 - 07:24 ?xdm? 3:20 0.29s /usr/bin/gnome-session
root pts/1 :0.0 15:55 0.00s 0.03s 0.00s w
root pts/2 :0.0 16:28 50.00s 0.03s 0.00s man finger

[root@localhost ~]# echo $SHELL //echo - display a line of text ,here,displays the shell
/bin/bash

[root@localhost ~]# echo {con,pre}{sent,fer}{s,ed} //displays all possible words

consents consented confers confered presents presented prefers prefered

[root@localhost ~]# cal 2000 //year 2000 calendea\r

[root@localhost ~]# cal 9 1792

September 1792
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
2345678
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30

[root@localhost ~]# yes please //output please repeatedly until killed

please
please
please
please
...

[root@localhost ~]# time sleep 5 /give resource usage

real 0m5.003s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.001s

[root@localhost ~]# history //GNU History Library