I am a linux command line geek and when I am working on windows I miss it as there are lot of kung-fu which we can do easily in linux terminal than any GUI tool. So thought of creating a command equivalent list of Windows and Linux.
let me know if there is any daily command which I missed to add here. Hoping this will help you guys.
| Command's Purpose | MS-DOS | Linux | Basic Linux Example |
| Copies files | copy | cp | cp thisfile.txt /home/thisdirectory |
| Moves files | move | mv | mv thisfile.txt /home/thisdirectory |
| Lists files | dir | ls | ls |
| Clears screen | cls | clear | clear |
| Closes shell prompt | exit | exit | exit |
| Displays or sets date | date | date | date |
| Deletes files | del | rm | rm thisfile.txt |
| "Echoes" output to the screen | echo | echo | echo this message |
| Edits text files | edit | gedit | gedit thisfile.txt |
| Compares the contents of files | fc | diff | diff file1 file2 |
| Finds a string of text in a file | find | grep | grep word or phrase thisfile.txt |
| Displays command help | command /? | man or info | man command |
| Creates a directory | mkdir, md | mkdir | mkdir directory |
| Deletes an existing directory | rmdir, rd | rmdir | rmdirt directory |
| Views contents of a file | more | less | less thisfile.txt |
| Renames a file | ren | mv | mv thisfile.txt thatfile.txt |
| Displays your location in the file system | chdir | pwd | pwd |
| Changes directories with a specified path (absolute path) | cd pathname | cd pathname | cd /directory/directory |
| Changes directories with a relative path | cd.. | cd .. | cd .. |
| Displays the time | time | date | date |
| Shows amount of RAM in use | mem | free | free |
| Displays the contents of a file | type | cat | type filename |
| Reverse IP lookup | nslookup | nslookup | |
| Checking the network status | netstat | netstat | netstat |
| Pinging any system | ping | ping | ping 127.0.0.1 |
| Running Process | tasklist | ps | ps -ef |
| Get login username | net session | who | who |
| Tracing IP | tracert | traceroute | |
| Sets file permissions | Attrib | chmod | chmod perm1 perm2 |
| Display OS version | ver | uname -a | uname -a |
| Sorts lines in a file | sort | sort | sort filename |
| Compare two files | diff | fc | fc file1 file2 |
| OS scheduler | at | crontab | crontab -l |
| FTP | ftp | ftp | ftp user@host |
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