Linux Terminal

I’m going to show you several terminal commands that are perhaps unfamiliar to many new-to-Linux users but could be really handy when used properly.

Here’s a list of 10 rather unknown yet useful Linux terminal commands:

1. Kill a running application by its name:

killall [app_name]

2. Display disk space usage:

df –h

3. Locate the installation directories of a program:

whereis [app]

4. Mount an .iso file:

mount /path/to/file.iso /mnt/cdrom –oloop

5. Record or capture a video of your desktop:

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s wxga -r 25 -i :0.0 -sameq /tmp/out.mpg

6. Find out the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of your partitions:

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -alh

7. Show the top ten running processes (sorted by memory usage):

ps aux | sort -nrk 4 | head

8. Make an audible alarm when an IP address goes online:

ping -i 60 -a IP_address

9. Run the last command as root:

sudo !!

10. Make a whole directory tree with one command:

mkdir -p tmp/a/b/c

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