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Introduction

Shell access gives you user-level privileges on the server to run miscellaneous housekeeping tasks. Shell access is not required on accounts, but it certainly makes things easier. Shell access is available on the Basic and higher packages.

Basic Commands

After logging in you are placed in your home directory. Here are your basic commands that represent 90% of the commands entered into the server.

cd

change current directory

ls

list directory contents

rm

remove files

egrep

check file for pattern

cat

dump file contents to the screen

tar

create an archive

mutt

terminal e-mail client

find

look for files matching a particular criteria

dos2unix, unix2dos

convert files between Linux-friendly line-endings and Windows-friendly

wget

fetch a URL and save a copy locally

See Also

• GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary courtesy of The Linux Documentation Project