ls -l = list the content of current directory find /etc/ -name "*.conf" = find files with given name locate *.name = find the files grep network /etc/init.d/* 2> /dev/null = find strings inside files CTRL+c = stop the given process df -h = check available disc space du -sh ./* = check the size of the files in a give directory ssh username@taito.csc.fi = connect to the given server scp file.txt username@taito.csc.fi:. = copy file.txt to Taito rsync -avt linux_learn.txt user@taito.csc.fi:'$HOME' = copy file wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.7.tar.gz = get file from the web zip linux_zip.zip linux_learn* = create a zip archive unzip -l linux_zip.zip = list the content of zip archive unzip linux_zip.zip = unzip the archive tar -cvf linux_learn.tar linux_learn* = create a tar archive tar -xvf linux_learn.tar = extract tar archive rm linux_learn_copy.txt = remove the file linux_learn_copy.txt ln -s ../linux_learn.txt linux_lear_symbolic_link.txt = create a symbolic link to a file chmod u+x file.txt = add execute permissions export PS1='\[\033[1;30m\]\u\[\033[0m\]@\[\033[1;34m\]\h\[\033[0m\]:[\w]# ' = set your command prompt; run 'source .profile' to apply it