Commands - Basic

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== Creating Users / Groups ==
 
== Creating Users / Groups ==
  
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See our full in depth guide on [[Linux_User_%26_File_Management|Linux User & File Management]]
  
 
==== Creating Users ====
 
==== Creating Users ====
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== Server Monitoring ==
 
== Server Monitoring ==
  
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It is normally a good idea to add some server monitoring tools to your server, the most popular ones for game servers is creating a game server monitor button see a place like [[http://www.gametracker.com/|Gametracker.com]] These create banners like the example below, what can be useful to check on just to see how many players are on the server & if it is online.
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It is normally a good idea to add some server monitoring tools to your server, the most popular ones for game servers is creating a game server monitor button see a place like [http://www.gametracker.com Gametracker.com] These create banners like the example below, what can be useful to check on just to see how many players are on the server & if it is online.
  
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[[File:gametracker.png|200px]]
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[[File:gametracker.png|400px]]
  
 
Our favourite server monitoring tool is "htop" this is a bit like Windows Task Manager but for Linux, we install this software as standard, to run htop use command
 
Our favourite server monitoring tool is "htop" this is a bit like Windows Task Manager but for Linux, we install this software as standard, to run htop use command
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<pre>htop</pre>
 
<pre>htop</pre>
  
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Below is a screenshot of what htop looks like - See our Full in depth guide [[htop|htop]]
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Below is a screenshot of what htop looks like, You can edit what is displayed on htop by press "f2" to go into the setup menu
  
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[[File:htop.png|350px]]
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[[File:htop.png|550px]]
  
 
Another great tool called "iftop" can be used to monitor your servers traffic, this tool lets you know who is connecting to your server & the network stats of the connection
 
Another great tool called "iftop" can be used to monitor your servers traffic, this tool lets you know who is connecting to your server & the network stats of the connection
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Below is a screenshot of what iftop looks like
 
Below is a screenshot of what iftop looks like
  
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[[File:iftop.png|350px]]
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Simple Commands like "free" can show memory usage
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<pre>free</pre>
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"du" can show the disk usage
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<pre>du</pre>
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"df" can show us the disk used/free space on each hard disk
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<pre>df</pre>
  
 
== File / Folder Management ==
 
== File / Folder Management ==
  
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=== Navigating around the file system ===
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To change which folder you are in / navigate to another folder you use the command "cd" (change directory) & then the folder path (you can press tab for auto complete, or tab tab for a list of options that match you search e.g.
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<pre>cd /home</pre>
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To navigate to the parent folder (folder above) use command "cd .."
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<pre>cd ..</pre>
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=== Showing the contents of a folder ===
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To show the contents of a folder you can use the command "ls" (List) This will list all the files / folders in your current directory
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<pre>ls</pre>
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You can also use the better command "ls -l" this will list more information about the files / folders, including permissions, owner, size, last modified
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<pre>ls -l</pre>
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=== Editing files ===
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For most of the time you should be able to do everything you need using the command line tools & file editors such as "nano" a brilliant command line text editor for Linux
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This command will either open the file "file.txt" if it exists, or it will create a file "file.txt" using this text editor
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<pre>nano file.txt</pre>
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For other files with different file types that are not supported with text editors, it maybe best to download the file & then edit using a local computer
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=== Copying Files / Folders ===
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To copy a file / folder you use the command "cp" (Copy) & then the file you want to copy & then the destination e.g. for a single text file this command will copy "file1" to "file2"
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<pre>cp file1.txt file2.txt</pre>
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If you want to copy a folder the command is slightly different you just add the "-r" option to the command to specify you want to recursively copy a folder & its files within (This command will copy "folder1" into "folder2"
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<pre>cp -r folder1/ folder2/</pre>
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It is best to use the copy command if you want to move files / folders via command line.
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=== Renaming Files / Folders ===
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There are multiple ways of doing this, you could edit a file in a text editor like "nano" from the above example & then save it as a different name or you can use the "mv" command
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In this example i will rename file1111.txt to file.txt
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<pre>mv file1111.txt file.txt</pre>
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You use the same command to rename a folder
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<pre>mv folder1111 foldera</pre>
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=== Making Folders ===
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A very simple command for this one "mkdir" (Make Directory) in this example I will create a folder named testing
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<pre>mkdir testing</pre>
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You can also specify a path in which you want to create the folder in, very useful if you want to copy files from one place to another & placing them in a folder
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<pre>mkdir /home/testing</pre>
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=== Deleting Folders ===
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If you want to delete a folder you use the command "rmdir" to delete an empty folder, if it has files inside it you use the command "rm -r foldername" example.
  
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<pre>rm -r testing</pre>
  
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- See our Full in depth guide [[Linux_File_Management|Linux File Management]]
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See our full in depth guide on [[Linux_User_%26_File_Management|Linux User & File Management]]

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