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Essential Linux Command-Line Guide

This document provides a quick reference for common Linux command line tasks like navigating directories, compiling and running code, input/output redirection, and timing/verifying code. It outlines commands for changing directories, compiling C++ code with g++, running programs with input/output files using < and >, timing code execution, and comparing output files with diff.

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Essential Linux Command-Line Guide

This document provides a quick reference for common Linux command line tasks like navigating directories, compiling and running code, input/output redirection, and timing/verifying code. It outlines commands for changing directories, compiling C++ code with g++, running programs with input/output files using < and >, timing code execution, and comparing output files with diff.

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Quick Linux Reference for the command-line

Directory navigation
Change the current directory to the desktop cd ~/Desktop Going up one directory cd ../ Going to a folder named folder in the current path cd folder

Compiling and running code


Compiling [Link] into an executable named code g++ -O2 -o code [Link] Running code ./code

Running code with input and output files


Running code with [Link] as the input file ./code < [Link] Running code with [Link] as the input file and writing the output to out ./code < [Link] > out Printing the contents of out cat out

Timing and verifying code


Running code with [Link] as the input file, and timing its execution time ./code < [Link] Running code with [Link] as the input file and writing the output to out, and timing its execution time ./code < [Link] > out Print all differences between [Link] and out diff [Link] out

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