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Some basic commands that you need to manage your Dedicated Server via SSH?

If you are not conversant with SSH (Shell) then it is highly recommended that you should know some of the most commonly used commands to manage your dedicated server that are also very important to give you a head start in understanding frequently required commands Linux dedicated by administrators.

1. top- This is designed to offer plethora of information regarding live system processes. It presents the information about server, CPU usage, uptime, and memory usage in a tabular form wherein the most resource intensive process occupies the top slot in the table.
2. ls- Use this command to swiftly and easily view contents of directory. It is comparable with ‘dir’ in Windows operating system.
3. ps-auxf – Know huge amount of information about number of processes that are running currently.
4. who- You will be able to view the users that are currently logged in through SSH to server
5. pwd- Use this command to know in which directory you are currently located within SSH.
6. rm-filename_file.txt- It is supposed to delete filename.txt. You may be asked to confirm before deletion.
7. rm –rf –file name_folder- Will delet the entire sample folder directory. As a thumb rule you should be extra careful while using the ‘rm’ command, since it will delete the file or folder along with all content therein.
8. tail- if you want to know the output of last lines of file use this command. It is of great significance while reading logs.
9. Mkdir test_dir- Used for creation of new directory as test_dir