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Try Some Simple Commands

Now that we have learned to type, let's try a few simple commands. The first one is

date. This command displays the current time and date.

[me@linuxbox ~]$ date

Fri Jan 8 15:09:41 EST 2016

[me@linuxbox ~]$ date

Fri Jan 8 15:09:41 EST 2016

A related command is cal which, by default, displays a calendar of the current month.

[me@linuxbox ~]$ cal

January 2016

To see the current amount of free space on your disk drives, enter df:

[me@linuxbox ~]$ df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda2 15115452 5012392 9949716 34% /

/dev/sda5 59631908 26545424 30008432 47% /home

[me@linuxbox ~]$ df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda2 15115452 5012392 9949716 34% /

/dev/sda5 59631908 26545424 30008432 47% /home

Try Some Simple Commands

Likewise, to display the amount of free memory, enter the free command.

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