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mtward21 [2021/05/12 13:06] matthews [Useful Linux Commands] |
mtward21 [2021/05/12 13:16] matthews [Useful Linux Commands] |
* **apropros** - Useful for finding "//appropriate//" commands. i.e., **apropros network** will show useful commands related to networking. | * **apropros** - Useful for finding "//appropriate//" commands. i.e., **apropros network** will show useful commands related to networking. |
* **man** - RTM. Read The Manual. Enough said? i.e., **man ls** will let you read the manual for the command **ls**. | * **man** - RTM. Read The Manual. Enough said? i.e., **man ls** will let you read the manual for the command **ls**. |
* **lshw** - list hardware. Needs elevated privileges to properly probe all of the system's hardware. Also useful to pipe the output into a paginator for easy reading. i.e., **sudo lshw | less** will run the command with elevated privileges, then it pipes the output from that command into the text reader command **less**. | * **[[https://www.howtoforge.com/linux-lshw-command/|lshw]]** - list hardware. Needs elevated privileges to properly probe all of the system's hardware. Also useful to pipe the output into a paginator for easy reading. i.e., **sudo lshw | less** will run the command with elevated privileges, then it pipes the output from that command into the text reader command **less**. |