Nokia N900 X-Terminal

Hi there!
As we know that Nokia N900 hadn't been accepted popularly, However it's one of the most powerful Nokia devices.
You can praise the hardware performance, software options and more. :)

In this topic i'll post the most commonly X-Terminal commands from my personal experience.
In fact... The Linux devices with terminal emulator "like Nokia N900" are most powerful than close source devices like "Symbian devices -N8, E7, N97 etc..."
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1- "cp" copy files
e.g.

cp /home/user/MyDocs/file1.txt /home/user/MyDocs/.Documents

2- "mv" move or rename files
e.g.

mv /home/user/MyDocs/file1.txt /home/user/MyDocs/.Documents

3- "ls" list files except hidden files
e.g.

ls /home/user/MyDocs

4- "ls -la" list all files
e.g.

ls -la /home/user/MyDocs

5- "root" gain user root access
e.g.

sudo gainroot

6- "mkdir" make new directory
e.g.

mkdir /home/user/MyDocs/directory1

7- "rmdir" remove existed directory
e.g.

rmdir /home/user/MyDocs/directory1

8- "rm -r" remove directory with all contained files
e.g.

rm -r /home/user/MyDocs/directory1

9- "rm" remove file
e.g.

rm /home/user/MyDocs/file1.txt

10- "cd" change directory
e.g.

cd /home/user/MyDocs/music

11- "cd .." change directory back
e.g.

cd ../..

12- "mount" mount file system
e.g.

mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs

13- "umount" unmount file system
e.g.

umount /home/user/MyDocs

14- "apt-get update" update catalogs repositories
e.g.

apt-get update

15- "apt-get install" install app from specified repository
e.g.

apt-get install nano

16- "dpkg -i" extract ".deb" files
e.g.

dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/nano.deb

17- "df -h" show disk partitions and their space
e.g.

df -h /dev/mmcblk1p1

18- "du -m" show disk usage in megabytes
e.g.

du -m /dev/mmcblk0p2

19- "--help" help you know more about command marks
e.g.

rm --help

20- "exit" exit X-Terminal, or changing to average user mode
e.g.

exit

21- "echo" print result
e.g.

echo 123

22- "$" print value of some text
e.g

p=1 echo $p

23- "find" find specified file
e.g.

find /home/user/MyDocs/*.txt

24- "CTRL+C" will stop doing some command "like extracting .tar file"
e.g

ctrl+c

25- "tar -xvf" extract .tar file
e.g.

tar -xvf /home/user/MyDocs/file1.tar

26- ">" print results into text file
e.g.

ls >file1.txt

27- "mkfs.vfat" make vfat file system
e.g.

mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcblk1p1 -n sdcard

28- "mkfs.ext3" make ext3 file system
e.g.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk1p1 -n sdcard

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- Make sure that you have "rootsh" first, if not, you will not be able to use most of these commands.
- Don't use uncommonly commands like "umount, mkfs, etc..." if u don't need them.

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Best Regards! :)