Nowadays most of odoo programmers are using Linux for odoo, but they are mostly struggling with commands so I thought it might help to the community to share my knowledge about some common commands that used in odoo.

• To open terminal 
  

press key Ctrl + Alt + T

• Locate any Folder (example: Odoo folder)

Locate
This command is used to locating any folder.

• PWD

To know in which directory you are in, you can use pwd.

• Create folder 
  

sudo mkdir -R folder_name 

• Create file

sudo touch file_name

• Remove folder

sudo rm -rf  folder_name

• Remove file

sudo rm file_name

• To check list in folder or directory

ls

it will show you all list of folder

ls -l

it will show you list with all information like permission,access right, date etc.

• Start odoo service

sudo systemctl start service_name 

• Stop odoo service

sudo systemctl stop service_name 

• Restart odoo service

sudo systemctk restart service_name

• Clear screen

clear

Clear command does what exactly it says, it clears the screen

• Open file in gedit

to open the file in gedit from the command

gedit file_name

• Search history command

to search history command from terminal use   Ctrl + R

and write similar word that you used in the previous commands

• Check odoo log file

sudo tail -f  odoo.log

Log file is located in /var/log/odoo/odoo.log

• Search odoo Service process

sudo ps -ax|grep odoo

• Kill odoo service process

sudo kill -9  process_id

• Install any package by command

sudo apt-get install package_name

• For python package:

sudo pip install package_name

• Check Configuration of  Network interface

ifconfig

• Get os name

uname

• Get os name and version

lsb_release -a

• Move File

mv source_path_file  destination_path

eg. mv /home/desktop/file   /home/Music/

• Copy file 

cp source_path_file  destination_path