- The Unix philosophy, specially the "Make each program do one thing well" [1]
- File and directory navigation/manipulation (ls, cd, mkdir, rm, rmdir, touch, cp, mv)
- ln/unlink/readlink
- find/locate
- chmod
- chown
- man/info
- su/sudo
- set/export (environment variables in general, specially PATH)
- which
- df
- history
- vi (enough to open/edit/save a file)
- cat
- head/tail
- more/less
- grep
- awk/sed/cut
- (regular expression in general)
- wc
- diff
- tr
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- <<
- |
- xargs
- tee
- ping
- netstat
- ssh/scp
- ngrep
- netcat
- curl
- wget
- telnet (mostly for port testing?)
- rsync
- lsof (-i)
- ps
- uptime
- top/htop
- nohup
- kill/pkill/killall
- &
- (Ctrl + Z)
- fg/bg/jobs
- crontab
- lsof
- tar (including manipulating gzip/bzip)
- zip
[1] The Art of Unix Programming (http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html)
- Manual pages ('man' command)
- SS64 command references: http://ss64.com/bash/
- Useful command snippets: http://commandlinefu.com
- Useful aliases: http://alias.sh
- Command Line Crash Course: http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
I find
cut
very useful - a lot simpler than awk or sed for extracting values from structured text