TERMINAL COMMANDS

Below is a list of several GNU/Linux terminal commands and their explanations:

• whoami = checks which user is currently logged into the terminal
• mutt = opens the mutt email client
• ls = lists files and folders in a directory
• amfora willthekid.smol.pub = opens gemini://willthekid.smol.pub using the amfora terminal client
• pwsh = launches PowerShell
• gcc prova.c -o hello = compiles the C source file “prova.c” using the GNU C compiler, naming the output executable “hello”
• pwd = displays the current working directory
• bombadillo gopher://smol.pub/1/willthekid = opens gopher://smol.pub/1/willthekid using Bombadillo
• w3m willthekid.altervista.org = opens the web page willthekid.altervista.org using the w3m terminal browser
• lynx willthekid.altervista.org = opens the web page willthekid.altervista.org using the lynx terminal browser
• lynx gopher://smol.pub/1/willthekid = lynx can also be used to open Gopher pages, as shown here
• bombadillo gemini://willthekid.smol.pub = uses Bombadillo to open a Gemini page
• clear = clears the terminal screen
• exit = exits the terminal session
• cd public_gemini = changes directory to “public_gemini”
• vi indice.gmi = opens the file indice.gmi in the vi text editor (creates it if it doesn’t exist)
• cat indice.gmi = prints the contents of indice.gmi to the terminal
• mv index.gmi index01.gmi = renames index.gmi to index01.gmi
• cd .. = moves up one directory level
• mv prova.c ~ = moves prova.c to your home directory
• mkdir tutorial = creates a directory named “tutorial”
• mv ciao.md prova.c tutorial = moves ciao.md and prova.c into the tutorial directory
• cp index.html ~ = copies index.html to your home directory
• ls -al = lists all files and directories (including hidden ones) with detailed properties
• cd = changes directory to your home folder
• ls -l = lists files and directories with detailed properties (excluding hidden ones)
• which php = shows the location of the PHP interpreter (returns to command prompt if not found)
• vi hello.go = opens hello.go in vi editor (creates it if it doesn’t exist)
• go build -o ciao hello.go = compiles hello.go using Go compiler and names the output “ciao”
• ./ciao = executes the program named “ciao”
• irb = opens the interactive Ruby interpreter (IRB)
• which irb = displays the file path of the IRB interpreter
• ls -l /usr/bin = shows detailed properties of the bin directory located in /usr
• tree = displays directories, subdirectories, and files in a tree structure
• clisp = launches the CLISP interpreter
• gnatmake -o ciuspolo hello.adb = compiles the Ada source file hello.adb to produce an executable named “ciuspolo”
• ./ciuspolo = runs the “ciuspolo” executable
• rm hello.ali hello.o ciuspolo = removes the files hello.ali, hello.o, and ciuspolo
• mv prova.c hello.c = renames prova.c to hello.c
• rm -r ada = recursively removes the “ada” directory and all its contents
• file comandi_utili = inspects and displays the file type/properties of comandi_utili
• chmod +x smolpub = grants execution permissions to the file smolpub
• cp ~/smolpub/hack01 ~/public_gemini = copies hack01 from ~/smolpub to ~/public_gemini
• cd ~/public_gemini = directly navigates to ~/public_gemini directory
• cp .bash_history history.txt = copies .bash_history to a new file named history.txt
• chmod 644 rapata.jpeg = sets read/write permission for owner and read-only for others
• chmod 644 * = sets read/write for owner and read-only for others on all files in current directory
• tar -czvf immagini.tar.gz immagini = creates a compressed tarball (gzip) of the immagini folder named immagini.tar.gz
• glow = launches the Glow terminal Markdown reader
• tar -xvf glow.tar.gz = extracts the glow.tar.gz archive
• mv -f glow ~ = moves the file glow to your home directory, overwriting any existing file with the same name
• echo ‘export PATH=“HOME/cartella:PATH”’ >> ~/.bashrc = appends a PATH export line to your ~/.bashrc file
• source ~/.bashrc = reloads ~/.bashrc without restarting the terminal session to apply changes
• jstar proviamo.txt = opens proviamo.txt in the jstar text editor (creates it if missing)
• touch prova.md = creates an empty file named prova.md
• ls ~ = lists files and folders in your home directory
• ls ~/sorgenti = lists contents of the ~/sorgenti folder
• ls *.md = lists all files with the .md extension in the current directory