10 Essential Linux Commands To Be A Hacker

s d n a m m o C x u n i L l a i t n e Ess r e k c a H A e To b System g n ti ra e p O te ri o v a Hackers F Become Expert On

traceroute This commands prints the route packets to network host.

Example: traceroute www.google.com

netstat This commands prints contents of network related data structures.

Example: netstat

uname This commands provides system details.

Including hardware type and operating system version.

Example: uname -a

grep This is one of the most powerful commands on linux to do text search on files and output of other commands.

Example: grep “my text� myfile.txt

host A simple utility to convert any hostname to IP address and vice versa.

Example: host www.google.com

who This commands displays all the logged on users on this current system.

Example: who

nslookup This is a utility to query Internet domain name servers. This has interactive and non interactive modes.

Example nslookup www.google.com

gzip Compress a large data into a small zip file.

Example gzip myfile.log

ps This commands shows process details. This is a very basic command but most frequently used.

Example ps -aef

scp You can do Remote file copy using this command.

Example: scp user@remoteserver:./myfile .

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