Most used Linux console commands for operating on the Raspperry Pi. This is a list of frequently used console commands while using Raspberry Pi with Raspbian. This document is a combination of knowledge gathered from online materials and experience. Feel free to contribute via GitHub.
If you are searching for more than this, check out the Learning the Shell tutorial by William E. Shotts, Jr.
This is a good introducion to CLI as well: Comand Line 101
ls
Lists curent directory contents. By issuing this command you can see what files and folders there are in the current directory you are.
ls /home/pi Desktop Downloads ocr_pi.png openFrameworks python_games startup.sh wayland
pwd
Tells the current directory you are in starting from the root level. For example:
pwd /home/pi/user
cd
Change directory. This is the main navigation command within the Raspberry Pi terminal environment. cd /home/pi
takes you to the home directory. When you execute ls
again, you should see an output similar to the following:
cd /home/pi ls Desktop Downloads ocr_pi.png openFrameworks python_games startup.sh wayland
mkdir
Create (make) directory. mkdir test
creates a directory with the name test
.
touch
Creates a blank file. touch test.txt
creates a blank .txt
file.