The famous selection of Linux bash commands

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User Management

usermod - modify user settings. Add a user to a group

usermod -a -G <examplegroup> <exampleusername>

E.g. add user geek to the sodo group:

usermod -a -G sudo geek


File System Tools

du: disk usage - Summarize disk usage of the set of FILEs, recursively for directories.

du -d2 -h


df - Show information about the file system on which each FILE resides, or all file systems by default.

df -h


ssh - Secure Shell Connect to a remote host

ssh <user>@<host name / ip address>


Run a command on the remote host

ssh <user>@<host name / ip address> '<command to run>'