20 Putty Commands

When deploying Code, you want to use putty for easy and fast filetransfer.


General:
1. To show your current location pwd
2. To find out which user you are: whoami
3. To display current server date and time: date
4. To open the manual pages for commands: man
5. quit or exit an application: q

Directories:
6. To list folders or directories use: “ls” or “dir”
7. To make a directory: mkdir
8. To change directories: “cd /path/to/your/directory”
9. To delete a directory: “rm -rf directoryname”
10. To change up one directory: “cd ..” (two directories: “cd ../..”)

Files:
11. To Copy a file with: cp
12. To move a file, also used to rename files: mv
13. To remove a file: rm
14. To upload a file: “wget http://www.yourhost.com/yourfile.tar.gz”
15. To delete a file: “rm filename”
16. To unzip a zip file: “unzip filename”
17. To unzip a tar.gz file: “tar -xvzf filename”
18. To zip a file or folder, in this case called foo: “zip foo.zip foo.html” or “zip -r foo.zip foo/”
19. To transfer one server to another or one site to another: wget http://www.yourhost.com/folder_name.tar”

System specific commands:
20. commands are distribution specific, such as apt in Debian: apt-get install