This is a brief guide to commands that can be run to manage your account, edit a website, or work on our server. To use them, access our login server via SSH, either locally or on our web terminal. Simply type in a command and hit enter to run it. To log out, run the command exit.

In the tables below, ARGUMENT is a required argument and [optional] is an optional one. For more information on a specific command, run man COMMAND.

OCF commands

These commands help you manage your OCF account.

Command	Description
how SCRIPT	Shows the source code for a script
makehttp	Puts a shortcut to your web directory in your home folder
makemysql	Generates a new random password for your database, creating the database if it does not exist
paper	Shows how many pages you can currently print
update-email	Prompts you to set a contact email address for your OCF account

File commands

For convenience, here is a very basic listing of commands to manage files. For a more complete listing, see for example Wikipedia.

Command	Description
cd DIRECTORY	Changes the current directory to a new one
cp [-r] SOURCE DEST	Copies a file. The -r option allows for copying directories.
less FILE	Lets you view the contents of a text file
ls [FILE]	Lists information about files and directories
mkdir DIRECTORY	Creates a new directory
micro FILE	Lets you edit a text file with a basic interface
mv SOURCE DEST	Moves or renames a file or folder
rm [-r] FILE	Deletes a file. The -r option allows for deleting non-empty directories.
rmdir DIRECTORY	Deletes an empty directory. Safer than rm -r.