Commands in Putty

Putty only displays command prompt of a remote Linux computer in Windows.
The commands that you type in are simply Linux commands. They are not putty commands. Here are few examples:

ls - to list files in a directory:

Code:

ls
handbook.pdf  iso
ls -lh
total 3.4M
-rw-r--r-- 1 pavlo pavlo 3.4M 2007-05-15 05:53 handbook.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 2 pavlo pavlo 4.0K 2007-04-10 00:25 iso
ls iso/
rhel-5-client-x86_64-disc6.iso

cd - change directory (navigate to some directory):

Code:

cd iso

cp - copy a file:

Code:

cp ../handbook.pdf .

mv - move a file (also used to rename files):

Code:

mv handbook.pdf howto.pdf

rm - remove a file:

Code:

rm handbook-draft.pdf

mkdir - make directory:

Code:

mkdir new

pwd - show your current location:

Code:

pwd
/home/pavlo/example/iso

date - display date and time

Code:

date
Tue May 15 06:07:45 UTC 2007

some commands are distribution specific, such as apt in Debian. Example:

Code:

apt-get install expect

which downloads and installs "expect" package.

man - most important of all commands (opens manual pages for other commands):

Code:

man expect

q - quit or exit an application (for example when done reading man page, type q to exit).

A list of some Linux commands: Linux bash commands - MAN Pages