60 Linux Commands you NEED to know (in 10 minutes)

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About this video

This is a rapid-fire walkthrough of 60 Linux commands in about ten minutes, demonstrated on a Linode virtual machine that the creator says costs him 0.01 cents an hour and is destroyed when he is done. The first half covers getting in and moving around: ssh, ls with -l and -a, pwd, cd, touch, echo redirection, editors nano and vim, cat, shred, mkdir, cp, mv, rm and rmdir, ln -s for soft links, and clear. It then covers identity and users — whoami, sudo, adduser/useradd, su, exit, passwd, and finger — plus package management with apt update and apt install on Debian-based systems and yum on Red Hat/CentOS. The middle section covers help and file handling: man, whatis, which, whereis, wget and curl, zip/unzip, less, head, tail, cmp, diff, sort, find, chmod +x, and chown. The final section covers networking and system inspection: ifconfig and ip address filtered with grep and awk, checking DNS via /etc/resolv.conf and resolvectl status, ping, traceroute, netstat and ss, ufw on top of iptables, uname, neofetch, cal, bc, free, df -h, ps aux, top, htop, kill and pkill, systemctl for services, history, and reboot/shutdown.

Key takeaways

Navigation and file basics form the core loop: ls, pwd, cd, touch, cat, mkdir, cp, mv, and rm -r handle most day-to-day work, with nano for approachable editing and vim for insert mode (i) and :wq to save and quit
sudo grants permission for privileged actions such as adduser and package installs; su switches user, exit returns, and passwd changes a password
On Debian/Ubuntu systems run apt update before apt install; the creator notes yum is the equivalent package manager on Red Hat/CentOS systems
grep, pipes, and awk are presented as filters to narrow noisy output — for example piping ip address output through grep and awk to isolate one interface’s IP address
For processes and services, use ps aux to find a PID, kill -9 or pkill -f to stop it, top/htop to see heavy processes, and systemctl start/stop/restart/status to manage systemd services

Episode details: published November 16, 2022 · 10:50 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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