Linux Commands and Applications

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Linux Commands and Applications
Subhajit Datta M Tech 1, CSE
www.cse.iitb.ac.in/subbo
29th August, 2009
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Outline

• Linux Commands
• Linux Applications

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Linux Commands

• File handling Commands
• Process Commands
• Network Commands

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Linux Commands

• pwd present working directory
• mkdir- make new directory
• ls - directory listing
• cd - change directory
• cat - file
• cp - copying contents
• mv - changing file location
• ren - renaming file
• rm - remove file/directory
• find -find file in directory

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Linux Commands

• history displays the commands typed
• echo displays text in terminal
• Grep finds pattern in file
• wc word count
• chmod changing the permissions
• ps all processes
• who who are logged on
• df displays disk and memory used
• Ifconfig displays ip and mac address
• reboot/shutdwn
• date

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Linux Applications

• Graphics
• Internet
• Multimedia
• Office
• Games
• System

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Graphics Applications
Dia Diagram editor ? An editor for
diagrams, charts, graphs ? Very easy to edit
diagrams ? Diagrams can be exported to
jpeg(Joint Photographic Experts Group)?
png(Portable Network Graphics)? many
other formats. ? Other image related
applications include GIMP, digikam-photomanage
ment, ImageViewer, Xfig
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Graphics Applications
Okular Kde4 Universal Document Viewer ? Can
view documents such as pdf, dvi, etc. ? Has
support for annotations, forms, embedded
files and bookmarks ? Support for adding a note,
highlighting text, underlining, inserting
polygons etc., ? Other document viewers include
evince, kpdf, xpdf, etc.
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Multimedia Applications
Kaffeine ? An excellent media player ?
Support multiple player engines ? Supports
wide variety of media types mpeg, mp3,
wmv,avi, ogg, dat. ? Access CD's, DVD's and
network streams easily ? Other media
players include vlc(popular)?
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Multimedia Applications
K3b ? A GUI front-end to the CD/DVD recording
programs ? Similar to Nero in Windows ?
Provides a very user friendly interface to all
the tasks that come with cd- recording
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Internet Applications
Thunderbird ? It is a light weight
mail/news/RSS client based on Mozilla suite
? Supports different mail accounts (POP, Imap,
Gmail)? ? Easy organization of mail with
tagging and virtual folders. ? Many
extensions available like calendar,
reminders
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Internet Applications
Konqueror ? It is an open-source
file-manager, web browser and a document
viewer ? Supports file management on local
system, from simple operations to advance
remote file browsing
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Office Applications
Openoffice.org ? It is a full-featured office
productivity suite that provides a near
replacement for Microsoft(R) office ?
Supports open-document standard for file
format for electronic office document
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Office Applications

• Includes different packages such as
• openoffice.org-writer-----Word processor
• openoffice.org-calc--------Spreadsheet
• openoffice.org-impress -- Presentation
• openoffice.org-draw-------Drawing
• openoffice.org-base--------Database
• openoffice.org-math-------Equation Editor

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Office Applications
Kile ? A user-friendly LaTeX source editor and
TeX shell. ? It assists with LaTeX compilation,
DVI, Postscript and PDF document viewing ?
Generates bibliographies, indices and other
common tasks
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Game Applications

• Ubuntu repository has many games
• Free
• Simplest to complex games

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System
Synaptic Manager ? A graphical package
management tool for GTK(Toolkit for GUI)
and APT (Advanced Packaging Toolkit)? ? Used to
install, upgrade and remove software
packages in a user friendly way ? Edits the list
of used repositories(sources.list)? ? Other
package management tool includes adept
manager
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Other useful Applications
Development ? Quanta plus Web development
editor ? Kdevelop IDE for C/C, Ruby
etc. ? Eclipse IDE for Java
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Other useful Applications
Internet ? Firefox Web browser ? Kget
Download manager ? Knetworkmanager Network
manager ? Kompozer similar to Microsoft Front
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Thank You