Most-used Unix commands

• Listing files and directories (ls)
  
• Viewing files (cat, more, head, tail)
  
• Changing directories (cd)
  
• Making new directories (mkdir)
  
• Copying files (cp)
  
• Copying directories (cp -r)
  
• Moving and renaming (mv)
  
• Removing files and directories (rm, rmdir)
  
• Adding more software (add)
  
• Attaching directories (attach)
  
• Finding out where you are (pwd)
  
• Finding out about file storage space (quota)
  
• Sorting lines (sort)
  
• Searching (grep, find)
  
• Checking your spelling (spell)
  
• Counting lines, words and characters (wc)
  
• Showing date and time (date)