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| Linux commands and other help by Author:Rana Rizwan Ahmed, translated by English Linux |
Linux commands and other help[edit | edit source]
- rpm -qpi filename.rpm ---- get information
- rpm -i filename.rpm ---- install package
- rpm -e package ---- uninstall package
- find . -iname file* ---- search file* case insensitive under current directory recursively
- mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 'uname -r' ---- Make boot Disk
- dd if = /dev/fd0 of = $home/bootdisk.img bs=1440 ---- backup floppy image to disk
- dd if =$home/bootdisk.img of =/dev/fd0 ---- restore image from disk to floppy
- df ---- disk free (report filesystem disk space usage)
- mount -a /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom ---- mount a cd-r disc
- tar -zxvf filename.tar ---- tar uncompress from filename.tar
- tar -zcvf filename.tar /pkgs ---- tar directory /pkgs in recursively to filename.tar
- tar -xIf filename.bz2 ---- uncompress bz2 support
- su ---- become supervisor
- umount /dev/cdrom ---- unmount cdrom
- mount -t vfat /dev/hda? /mnt/win_c ---- mount a win9x partition /dev/hda? in /mnt/win_c with fat support
- lilo -v ---- active /etc/lilo.conf configure