Basic SSH Commands, Most used putty commands

JohnnieGaines

How to find out where you are, the pwd command shows you present working directory.
pwd
Change directory
cd

The cd command is used to navigate into a specified directory on your server.

Example: cd /home (moves you into the home folder)

The same directory

cd .
Using this command you will remain in the same directory you were.

Move me up one directory

cd ..
Above command will navigate two steps back from current directory

Go to the previous directory

cd –
Above command will navigate to the previous directory.

Go to Home folder

cd ~
Above command will navigate to the home directory on your server.

Go to root

cd /
Above command will navigate to root.

How to List Directories and Contents
8) List files

ls
usage: ls [option] [file]
Using the ls command in a folder will display all it’s content.

Example: ls /home.

Will return all content of the folder /home.

Show me all files in a directory

ls -a
10) Show contents with file size

ls -h
If you wish to see a directory’s contents with file sizes just type ls -h

How to see sub-directories recursively

ls -r
The ls -r command is used to see sub-directories recursively.

How to see files by file size

ls -is
13) List all folders in directory with details

ls -alh
How to Copy files/folders with Putty Commands
14) Copying a file

cp
To copy a file just use the cp ssh command.

Example:

cp filename.php /home/filename.php

Copy a folder with all files

cp -r
This one is used to copy the entire folder with all it’s contents.

Copy and rename

cp filename.php /home/filename2.php
How to Move files to different locations
17) Moving a file

mv
Example: mv page.php /home/page.php

Move and rename

mv page.php /home/newpage.php
19) Move file up one directory

mv filename ..
example: mv index.html/ ..

How to Create files/folders using Putty Commands
20) Create a folder

mkdir

example: mkdir new-folder

Create a file

touch
Use the touch command to create different files and file extensions

Example: touch index.php

How to Compress/Uncompress files?
22) Compressing folders

zip -r foldername.zip foldername
Example: zip -r newfolder.zip newfolder

uncompressing folders

unzip
Example: unzip newfolder.zip

Compressing folders using tar -czvf

tar -czvf foldername.tar.gz foldername
Example: tar -czvf wp-content.tar.gz wp-content

uncompressing folders using tar -czvf

tar -xvf foldername.tar.gz
Example: tar -xvf wp-content.tar.gz

How to Delete/Remove files?
26) Delete a file

rm
To delete a file on your server just use the rm command.

Example: rm index.php

Delete all files from a directory

rm *
This command is used to delete all contents from a directory.

Example: rm * foldername

Delete a folder/directory

rmdir
Use this command to remove directories.

How to change File permissions?
29) Change file permissions

chmod
Example: chmod 775 newfolder

Change permissions of folder and all files inside

chmod 755 folder name -R
Thanks for reading our article and we will keep updating the same articles with more useful commands in coming days. Keep checking this space for more Putty commands.

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JKnott

PuTTY commands? PuTTY is a terminal emulator. All the commands I see listed are shell commands. I often issue Linux shell commands, as well as BSD with pfSense. I do not normally use PuTTY and, as far as I've seen, it's not available for LInux, which is my desktop OS.

stephenw10

PuTTY is available for Linux. I use it for serial connections all the time. Obviously little point in using it for SSH there except maybe login storage. There are better options for that though.
But, yes, these are shell commands, there is nothing PuTTY specific about them. They are not SSH commands either.

Steve

johnpoz

For what possible reason does a someone post such a thing in their first post??

Ah - its spam.. who removed the link that was in the original post? I see it in the revision history..