Shell Commands
Tape Archival (tar)
Create tar
tar -cvf filename.tar filemane
Undo tar
tar -xvf filename.tar
List contents tar
tar -tvf filename.tar
gzip
Compress file
gzip -9 filename
Decompress file
gzip -d filename
ifconfig
To determine your IP address settings run:
ifconfig
find
To find path to a file run:
# find / -name "filename"
Tips
Find version of OS
- cat /etc/redhat-release
- cat /etc/redhat-release
- cat /etc/fedora-release
- cat /etc/SuSE-release