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Ubuntu Cheat Sheet (Updated for systemd based

versions)
Updated on 24th May 2017

System Information
lsb_release -a
OS Version (Ubuntu Version)
cat /etc/os-release

Kernel Release Information uname -a

Disk Usage df

Memory Usage free

Uptime uptime

Who are logged in w

System date and time date

Hostname hostname

Hardware Information
lshw
List hardware
lshw -short

lspci
List PCI devices
lspci -v

List USB devices lsusb

List SCSI devices cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Display device driver messages dmesg

(Pipe to grep for specic info) dmesg | grep -i usb

Process Management
List all processes top

List active processes ps -ef

Kill a process with PID pid kill pid

Kill with signal 9 if above doesn't work kill -9 pid

List tree of processes pstree

Which process is using le fuser lename

Networing
ifcong
List network interfaces
ip addr show

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Show routing tables ip route show

Edit /etc/network/interfaces and

Congure an interface
restart networking

systemctl restart networking

Restart Networking /etc/init.d/networking restart

service networking restart

List all ports netstat -a

List all active listening ports netstat -tupl

Service Management
/etc/init.d/myservice start
Start a service called myservice
service myservice start

/etc/init.d/myservice stop
Stop a service called myservice
service myservice stop

/etc/init.d/myservice status
Check status of a service called myservice
service myservice status

systemctl start myservice

For newer versions with systemd instead of
systemctl stop myservice
sysvinit above commands are
systemctl status myservice

Logs
General System Logs /var/log/syslog

Kernel logs /var/log/kern.log

Boot logs (sysvinit based older versions) /var/log/boot.log

Boot logs (sysemd based newer versions) journalctl -b

Kernel ring buer log /var/log/dmesg

Search
nd / -name lename
Search for a le
locate lename

Search for a le in path /home/mydir nd /home/mydir -name lename

Search for all les greater than size 100MB nd / -size +100M

2>/dev/null
Suppress errors while using nd or any command
nd / -size +100M 2>/dev/null

Search for pattern in a le grep pattern lename

Search for pattern in directory grep -r pattern dirname

Package Management
Install a package using apt apt-get install

Check for broken packages apt-get check

Remove broken packages apt-get autoremove

Refresh package list apt-get update

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Upgrade packages apt-get upgrade

Uninstall a package apt-get purge

Install a package using dpkg dpkg -i packagename.deb

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