All main Terminal commands [duplicate]

What should I write in Terminal to see all main commands?

Solution 1:

I think the most direct answer to your question is:

compgen -b

which lists all built-in commands

compgen -c

lists all commands (maybe better to use compgen -c | more since it's a long list)

A nice list of core commands can be found here.

I don't know it's the correct way or not but in my opinion you can try the following trick as you want the list of commands through terminal

To see the available commands in Ubuntu you can go to the following directories and get a listing of them

WARNING

DO NOT TRY TO EDIT OR ANYTHING IN THOSE DIRECTORIES

cd /usr/bin/
ls

and

cd /usr/sbin/
ls

By using the above commands you can see the list of commands then to get to know more about those commands use

man {command-name}

Or try online resources which lists the commands so that you don't screw up anything on your system

Linux Commands

Also see the link below:

List commands in Linux