CLI Basic Commands

For info on how to use vi see Basic commands for Linux vi Editor

vi /location_of_file/file_name

cd /directoryName

mkdir /directoryName

dir

find . -type f | wc -l

du -ah /path/to/dir

find / -name fileName

rm fileName

rm -r directoryName

*Note: Use this command with great care

mv /sourceDirectory/sourceFile /destination

cp /sourceDirectory/sourceFile /destination

cp /sourceDirectory/*.* /destination

cp -r -p /sourceDirectory /destinationpath

To create a uncompressed (.tar) archive of all files directories and subdirectories in the current directory:

tar -cvf archivefilename.tar *

To create a compressed (.tgz) archive of all files directories and subdirectories in the current directory:

tar -cvzf archivefilename.tgz *

For uncompressed .tar archives:

tar xvf file.tar

For gzip compressed .tar.gz archives:

tar xvzf file.tar.gz

reboot

poweroff

kill processID

killall programName

top

df

ps

netstat -an

If you are logged in as root you can open a new shell as if you just logged in as another user, substitute xxx with the user name. To return to root session use “exit”

su – xxx

Note: This assumes you have already installed ipkg itself.

ipkg install fileName

ipkg remove filename

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S97apache-user.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S81atalk.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S04crond.sh stop
/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S04crond.sh start

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99ftpd.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S66synoindexd.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S99itunes.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S21mysql.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S83nfsd.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S20pgsql.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc/rc.d/S80samba.sh restart

/usr/syno/etc.defaults/rc.d/S95sshd.sh restart

cat /proc/meminfo

cat /proc/cpuinfo

cat /proc/interrupts

cat /proc/filesystems

tune2fs -l /dev/hda3

cat /proc/version

cat /proc/mdstat

env

For multibay NASs and more info

cat /proc/diskstats

or for all NAS types

cat /proc/partitions

or for similar but different info

fdisk -l

clear

• kernel version: uname -r
• busy box version: cat /etc/* -release
• vi /etc/passwd, then replace: /sbin/nologin –> /bin/ash

This howto was taken from Basic commands to get around the Synology Box using the CLI

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