ANDROID TERMINAL EMULATOR COMMANDS.                                              mkdir – make directories

Usage: mkdir [OPTION] DIRECTORY…
eg. mkdir lhn
ls – list directory contents
Usage: ls [OPTION]… [FILE]…
eg. ls, ls ­l, ls lhn
cd – changes directories
Usage: cd [DIRECTORY]
eg. cd lhn
pwd ­-  print name of current working directory
Usage: pwd
vim – Vi Improved, a programmers text editor
Usage: vim [OPTION] [file]…
eg. vim lhn.txt
cp – copy files and directories
Usage: cp [OPTION]… SOURCE DEST
eg. cp sample.txt sample_copy.txt
cp sample_copy.txt target_dir
mv – move (rename) files
Usage: mv [OPTION]… SOURCE DEST
eg. mv source.txt target_dir
mv old.txt new.txt
rm ­ remove files or directories
Usage: rm [OPTION]… FILE…
eg. rm file1.txt , rm ­rf some_dir
find – search for files in a directory hierarchy
Usage: find [OPTION] [path] [pattern]
eg. find file1.txt, find ­name file1.txt
history – prints recently used commands
Usage: history
cat – concatenate files and print on the standard output
Usage: cat [OPTION] [FILE]…
eg. cat file1.txt file2.txt
cat ­n file1.txt
echo – display a line of text
Usage: echo [OPTION] [string] …
eg. echo I love India
echo $HOME
grep ­- print lines matching a pattern
Usage: grep [OPTION] PATTERN [FILE]…
eg. grep ­i apple sample.txt
wc ­- print the number of newlines, words, and bytes in files
Usage: wc [OPTION]… [FILE]…
eg.  wc file1.txt
wc ­L file1.txt
sort – sort lines of text files
Usage: sort [OPTION]… [FILE]…
eg. sort file1.txt
sort ­r file1.txt
tar – to archive a file
Usage: tar [OPTION] DEST SOURCE
eg. tar ­cvf /home/archive.tar /home/original
tar ­xvf /home/archive.tar
kill – to kill a process(using signal mechanism)
Usage: kill [OPTION] pid
eg. kill ­9 2275
ps – report a snapshot of the current processes
Usage: ps [OPTION]
eg. ps,  ps ­el
who – show who is logged on
Usage: who [OPTION]
eg. who , who ­b , who ­q
passwd – update  a user’s authentication tokens(s)
Usage: passwd [OPTION]
eg. passwd
su –  change user ID or become super­user
Usage: su [OPTION] [LOGIN]
eg. su remo, su
chown – change file owner and group
Usage: chown [OPTION]… OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE…
eg. chown remo myfile.txt
chmod – change file access permissions
Usage: chmod [OPTION] [MODE] [FILE]
eg. chmod 744 calculate.sh
zip – package and compress (archive) files
Usage: zip [OPTION] DEST SOURSE
eg. zip original.zip original
unzip – list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive
Usage: unzip filename
eg. unzip original.zi
ssh – SSH client (remote login program)
“ssh is a program for logging into a remote machine and for
executing commands on a remote machine”
Usage: ssh [options] [user]@hostname
eg. ssh ­X guest@10.105.11.20
scp – secure copy (remote file copy program)
“scp copies files between hosts on a network”
Usage: scp [options] [[user]@host1:file1] [[user]@host2:file2]
eg. scp file1.txt guest@10.105.11.20:~/Desktop/
fdisk – partition manipulator
eg. sudo fdisk ­l
mount – mount a file system
Usage: mount ­t type device dir
eg. mount /dev/sda5 /media/target
umount – unmount file systems
Usage: umount [OPTIONS] dir | device…
eg.  umount /media/target
du – estimate file space usage
Usage:  du [OPTION]… [FILE]…
eg. du
df – report filesystem disk space usage
Usage: df [OPTION]… [FILE]…
eg. df
quota – display disk usage and limits
Usage: quota [OPTION]
eg. quota ­v
reboot – reboot the system
Usage: reboot [OPTION]
eg. reboot
poweroff – power off the system
Usage: poweroff [OPTION]
eg. poweroff
kate – KDE Advanced Text Editor
Usage:  kate [options][file(s)]
eg. kate file1.txt file2.txt
vim – Vi Improved, a programmers text editor
Usage: vim [OPTION] [file]…
eg. vi hello.c
gedit ­ A text Editor. Used to create and edit files.
Usage: gedit [OPTION] [FILE]…
eg. gedit
bg – make a foreground process to run in background
Usage: type ‘ctrl+z’  and then ‘bg ‘
fg – to make background process as foreground process
Usage: fg [jobid]
jobs – displays the names and ids of background jobs
Usage: jobs
sed ­  stream editor for filtering and transforming text
Usage: sed [OPTION] [input­file]…
eg. sed ‘s/love/hate/g’ lov.            SOME OF THESE CODES ARE NOT WORKING IN EVERY PHONE SO DON'T BE WORRY                                                  BY RAHUL R.D.