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linux basic commands 2

MarkSkAxel answered on April 11, 2023 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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//part 2
1. du: //gives the information about the disc accoupied by a file or folder
	du directory_path // to see usage of that folder
    du -h directory_path // in human format
    du -sh directory // -s flag for getting size of complete directory instead of each file
    du -m directory // gives data in MBs
	du -h direcotry_path --exclude="file" // get data of all excluding certain file pattern

2. head: // command that allows you to view first 10 lines of the file
	head -n 5 file.txt // prints first five lines
	head -5 file.txt // this command works same as above
	head -n -5 file.txt // this print all the first lines except last five
	head -q file.txt file2.txt // this quits printing file names as a headers
	head -c 2 file.txt // outputs the no. of bytes	

3. tail: // command that allows to view last 10 lines of a file
	tail -3 file.txt // prints last three lines
	tail -n 3 file.txt // works same as above
	tail -c 50 file.txt // it will print last 50 bytes from the file
	tail -f file.txt // this will monitor file for the change -f meaning follow
	tail -q file.txt file2.txt // this will not print file name as headers
	tail -v file.txt // -v verbose this will print file names as header
4. diff:// shows the difference between two files
	diff -c file1.txt file2.txt // show the diff in context form
	diff -u file1.txt file2.txt // show the diff output without any redandant information
	diff -i file1.txt file2.txt // makes the diff command case insensative

5. tar://this command archives multiplle files into TAR file

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