Basic Linux Commands

ls -al - lists all files

Use locate to locate wce32.exe on your Kali virtual machine. - locate wce32.exe

mkdir -p test/{test1,test2,test3} - creating test as parent directory and other child directories at a time.

which command - gives the complete path of a file

locate - finds location of files and directories in kali. Normally, this will be saved in a db as scheduled by cron scheduler

find - gives flexibility than above two. Can find size,owner and all specifications of files, can search with a name, can also grep.


SSH Service

sudo systemctl start ssh - to start ssh

To check if it is running - sudo ss -antlp | grep sshd

sudo systemctl enable ssh

sudo systemctl enable https/apache

To see a table of all available services, run systemctl with the list-unit-files option

apt-cache search package name(pure-ftpd) gives the info about if the package is already installed or not

apt show resource-agents - shows up relevant resources installed in VM

apt remove --purge - purge along with remove deletes any remaining left over things after removing packages