Useful Linux Commands - TannerWeinacker/Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

• Tar command - This command is used to create compressed archive files. This can be useful for moving files between systems.

• C - creates a new .tar archive file
• v - Show the .tar file progress
• f - file name type of the archive file

• du command - This command is used to estimate how much disk space each file or subdirectory uses

• For this command to be readable for us we use du -h /home/ . . .

• kill command - This will terminate any process/ you can use this to reload processes.

• SIGTERM - This will request a process to stop running but will allow it time to save its progress
• SIGKILL - This forces a program to stop immediately