To anyone getting started with Linux, check out these commands and make your life easier!

List (ls)

Use the ls command to display the files, along with all their properties, are in a directory.

Change directory (cd)

It is often necessary to change directories. That’s the cd command's function. For instance, this example takes you from your home directory into the Desktop directory:

$ **cd** Desktop

To get back to the previous directory use:

$ **cd** ..

Print working directory (pwd)

The pwd command prints your working directory. In other words, it outputs the path of the directory you are currently working in.

Make directory (mkdir)

Making directories is easy with the mkdir command. The following command creates a directory called newfolder unless newfolder already exists:

$ **mkdir** newfolder

Copy a file (cp)

Copy files from-here *to-there *with the cp command. Here's an example to copy from file1.txt to file2.txt:

$ **cp** file1.txt file2.txt

Create an empty file (touch)

Easily create an empty file with the touch command:

$ **touch** newfile.txt

Escalate privileges (sudo)

The sudo (or super user do) command comes in when you require super user permissions (root) while administering your system. When you're trying to do something and your computer alerts you that only an administrator (or root) user can do, stating Permission denied, just preface it with the command sudo:

$ **touch** **/**etc**/**os-release **&&** **echo** "Success"
touch: cannot **touch** '/etc/os-release': Permission denied

$ **sudo** **touch** **/**etc**/**os-release **&&** **echo** "Success"
Success

Read the manual (man)

The single most important command that you will need to get the documentation for each of the commands on your Linux system is man .For instance, to read more about mkdir:

$ **man** **mkdir**

Another similar command is info.

Use these commands and keep learning and exploring! Thank you for reading this post, stay tuned for my next blog posts.
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