• grep print lines matching a pattern
• wc print the number of newlines, words, and bytes in files
• sort – sort lines of text files
• su – change user ID or become super user
• passwd – update a user’s authentication tokens(s)
• who – show who is logged on
• tar – to archive a file
• du – estimate file space usage
• cat – displaying and creating files
• echo – display a line of text
• rm -remove files or directories
• find – search for files in a directory hierarchy
• history – prints recently used commands
• cp – copy files and directories
• mv – move (rename) files
• man
• sed stream editor for filtering and transforming text
• awk pattern scanning and processing language
• bg – make a foreground process to run in background
• fg – to make background process as foreground process
• jobs – displays the names and ids of background jobs
• chmod – change file access permissions
• chown – change file owner
• chgrp change the file group
• sort – sort lines of text files
• kill – to terminate the process
• ps – to view the process status
• split – splitting of a file into multiple files
• lp – printing of a file
• more paging output