Putty Commands

**Prasad6235** · 05-15-2007

Cab any one can help me out with putty all basic and important commands or were would i get this commands .

Please Help me out

**pavlo_7** · 05-15-2007

Hi Prasad6235!
Welcome to the forums!

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-draft.pdf  iso
ls -lh
total 3.4M
-rw-r--r-- 1 pavlo pavlo 3.4M 2007-05-15 05:53 handbook-draft.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-draft.pdf .

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

Code:

mv handbook-draft.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

whoami - find out which user you are:

Code:

whoami
pavlo

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).

Here I found a list of some Linux commands: Linux bash commands - MAN Pages

Try some

**Prasad6235** · 05-16-2007

Thanks for all your help,

can you help me out how to tackle with emails on linux

**pavlo_7** · 05-17-2007

If you mean using an email client to download/send email from/through your webmail account like gmail or yahoo, then I must say I don't have much experience with it (always go to the website directly). But I know it's not that complicated at all. In any case, it's better if you start new thread with good descriptive topic, and ask your email-related questions there. That way people will know what it's about and you will have more chances to get correct and fast answer. It will also help others, who search forums, to find their answers.

**mrumanathpmk** · 01-09-2008

hi prasad,

U can check this following url: which will help for all the putty's related details:

Using PuTTY

Regards
Umanath

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