- Want to know your system name?
- /bin/uname -n
- Know where you are in your file system:
- pwd
- The command will print Present Working Directory
- How do you create a shortcut in linux?
- ln
- How to extract compressed files?
- tar
- Downloading from a link can't be faster on any other OS :)
- wget
- Forgot which commands you ran?
- history
- Want to see whats your disk space usage?
- df
- df -h gives human formatted listing
- Most important command to know more about the above commands - Need more help about the commands?
- man
On Windows: You can download a simple command line tool to do this. You can download the tool from here Usage can be found on the website but pasting it here too for convenience: C:\>TarTool.exe Usage : C:\>TarTool.exe sourceFile destinationDirectory C:\>TarTool.exe D:\sample.tar.gz ./ C:\>TarTool.exe sample.tgz temp C:\>TarTool.exe -x sample.tar temp TarTool 2.0 Beta supports bzip2 decompression for files with extensions like tar.bz2 and .bz2 . TarTool -xj sample.tar.bz2 temp or TarTool -j sample.bz2 Download TarTool 2.0 Beta from here Unpack a .txz file on Windows Use the 7zip tool to unpack a .txz file on windows On Linux: You can use the bzip2 and tar combined to do this… for ex: bzip2 –cd <tar.bz_fileName> | tar –xvf - This will unpack the contents of the tar.bz file Happy Un-Tar-ing
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