7 Linux commands for beginners

Print some text on terminal. This can be redirected to a file:

echo "Hello world!"

Print current date and time. Can be used also to set date and time:

date

Print the current username:

whoami

Show the information about the system - kernel in particular:

uname -a

Show the current name of target host:

hostname

Show tha last logins happened on target system:

last

Set the password for current user:

passwd