Command List - A
All Command List Linux Started By A
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| accept | Accept or Reject jobs to a destination, such as a printer. |
| access | Check a user’s RWX(read, write and execute) permission for a file. |
| accton | Used to turn on or turn off the process for accounting or change info process accounting file. |
| aclocal | Used to automatically generate aclocal.m4 files from configure.in file. |
| aconnect | ALSA(Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) sequencer connection manager. |
| acpi | Show information about the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. |
| acpi_available | Check if ACPI(Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) functionality exists on the system. |
| acpid | Informs user-space programs about ACPI events. |
| addr2line | Used to convert addresses into file names and line numbers. |
| addresses | Formats for internet mail addresses. |
| agetty | An alternative Linux Getty that manages physical or virtual terminals to allow multi-user access |
| alias | Create an alias, a shortcut that references a command. |
| alsactl | Access advanced controls for ALSA soundcard driver. |
| amidi | Perform read/write operation for ALSA RawMIDI ports. |
| amixer | Access CLI-based mixer for ALSA soundcard driver. |
| anacron | Used to run commands periodically. |
| aplay | Sound recorder and player for CLI. |
| aplaymidi | CLI utility used to play MIDI files. |
| apm | Show Advanced Power Management (APM) hardware info on older systems. |
| apmd | Used to handle events reported by APM BIOS drivers. |
| apropos | Shows the list of all man pages containing a specific keyword. |
| apt | Advanced Package Tool, a package management system for Debian and derivatives. |
| apt-get | Command-line utility to install/remove/update packages based on APT system. |
| aptitude | Another utility to add/remove/upgrade packages based on the APT system. |
| ar | A utility to create/modify/extract from archives. |
| arch | Display print machine hardware name. |
| arecord | Just like aplay, it’s a sound recorder and player for ALSA soundcard driver. |
| arecordmidi | Record standard MIDI files. |
| arp | Used to make changes to the system’s ARP cache. |
| as | A portable GNU assembler. |
| aspell | An interactive spell checker utility. |
| at | Used to schedule command execution at specified date & time, reading commands from an input file. |
| atd | Used to execute jobs queued by the at command. |
| atq | List a user’s pending jobs for the at command. |
| atrm | Delete jobs queued by the at command. |
| audiosend | Used to send an audio recording as an email. |
| aumix | An audio mixer utility. |
| autoconf | Generate configuration scripts from a TEMPLATE-FILE and send the output to standard output. |
| autoheader | Create a template header for configure. |
| automake | Creates GNU standards-compliant Makefiles from template files. |
| autoreconf | Update generated configuration files. |
| autoscan | Generate a preliminary configure.in file. |
| autoupdate | Update a configure.in file to newer autoconf. |
| awk | A scripting language used for manipulating data and generating reports. Also used to find and replace text in a file(s). |