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The following command will be used when you are taking the backup of data. Compressing the file to minimal size to transfer to another location. There are 3 types of compression utlities in linux basically ie .gz,.bz2 and .zip files.   Archiving & Compression Command Description # bunzip2 filename.bz2 Uncompressing “filename.bz2 to filename” # bzip2 […]

The following commands will be very usefull for starting up the server and ending the session of the server. This includes init, login and logout.   System Halts Command Description # init 0 system shutdown # logout leaving session # reboot Rebooting Machine # shutdown -h now shutdown system now # shutdown -h 12:30 Scheduled […]

The command line mode is very popular and it’s very useful when u don’t have the Server GUI. The command line produces same output as GUI options. The following list of the command will be very use full for all system administrators.   System Details Command Description # arch To seearchitecture of machine #dmesg To […]