After spending more than 9 years of my life in microsoft os, I feel great now to use my Mac notebook. Especially I have fallen in love with the terminal and thrilled to learn the power of unix. I curse myself for not being an unix user so far. Well, its never late to start. :-)
As a beginner I thought of sharing my learnings to my fellow unix beginners with few basic commands that you "must" know as an unix user.
Explaining few commonly used parameters of ls
As a beginner I thought of sharing my learnings to my fellow unix beginners with few basic commands that you "must" know as an unix user.
Few basic "must" know unix commands
1. ls - list files and folders
What is ls? A command to list all files and folders in a directory.
Usage: ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]Explaining few commonly used parameters of ls
2. pwd - present working directory
What is pwd? A command to display the present working directory path.
Usage: pwd
3. chmod - file permissions changer
What is chmod? A command to display the present working directory path.
Usage: chmod arguments file
Permissions to a file can be of the following three categories,
040 - read permission to group
004 - read permission to anybody
020 - write permission to group
002 - write permission to anybody
010 - execute permission to group
001 - execute permission to anybody
Permissions to a file can be of the following three categories,
- Read
- Write
- Execute
Read
400 - read permission to owner040 - read permission to group
004 - read permission to anybody
Write
200 - write permission to owner020 - write permission to group
002 - write permission to anybody
Execute
100 - execute permission to owner010 - execute permission to group
001 - execute permission to anybody
All permissions are in 3 digits,
xyz - indicates owner
xyz - indicates group
xyz - indicates anybody
For example:
chmod 777 filenmae means read-write-execute (full) permissions for anybody to the file.
chmod 644 filename means read and write permission to owner and read access to rest of the users to the file specified.
chmod 755 filename means read-write-execute permissions to owner and read and write access to others for the specified file.
The best way to learn any unix command is to do a "man" of that command. For ex: man ls
xyz - indicates owner
xyz - indicates group
xyz - indicates anybody
For example:
chmod 777 filenmae means read-write-execute (full) permissions for anybody to the file.
chmod 644 filename means read and write permission to owner and read access to rest of the users to the file specified.
chmod 755 filename means read-write-execute permissions to owner and read and write access to others for the specified file.
The best way to learn any unix command is to do a "man" of that command. For ex: man ls
