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Linux Cheat Sheet

This document provides summaries of common Linux commands organized into categories such as system information, hardware, users, files, networking, compression/archives, packages, processes, disk usage, and directory traversal. It lists commands like uname, uptime, ifconfig, tar, rpm, du, and cd along with brief explanations of their functions. The document recommends a more detailed Linux command reference guide on another website.

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Linux Cheat Sheet

This document provides summaries of common Linux commands organized into categories such as system information, hardware, users, files, networking, compression/archives, packages, processes, disk usage, and directory traversal. It lists commands like uname, uptime, ifconfig, tar, rpm, du, and cd along with brief explanations of their functions. The document recommends a more detailed Linux command reference guide on another website.

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SYSTEM FILE PERMISSION RELATED

#uname -a =>Displaylinux system information #chmod octal file-name =>Change the permissions of file to octal
#uname -r =>isplay kernel release information Example
#uptime =>Show how long the system has been running + load #chmod 777 /data/test.c =>Set rwx permission for owner,group,world
#hostname =>Show system host name #chmod 755 /data/test.c =>Set rwx permission for owner,rw for group
#hostname -i =>Display the IP address of the host and world
#last reboot =>Show system reboot history #chown owner-user file =>Change owner of the file
#date =>Show the current date and time #chown owner-user:owner-group file-name =>Change owner and group
#cal =>Show this month calendar owner of the file
#w =>Display who is online #chown owner-user:owner-group directory =>Change owner and group
#whoami =>Who you are logged in as owner of the directory
#finger user =>Display information about user
NETWORK
HARDWARE
#ifconfig –a =>Display all network ports and ip address
#dmesg =>Detected hardware and boot messages #ifconfig eth0 =>Display specific ethernet port
#cat /proc/cpuinfo =>CPU model #ethtool eth0 =>Linux tool to show ethernet status
#cat /proc/meminfo =>Hardware memory #mii-tool eth0 =>Linux tool to show ethernet status
#cat /proc/interrupts =>Lists the number of interrupts per CPU per I/O device #ping host =>Send echo request to test connection
#lshw =>Displays information on hardware configuration of #whois domain =>Get who is information for domain
the system #dig domain =>Get DNS information for domain
#lsblk =>Displays block device related information in Linux #dig -x host =>Reverse lookup host
#free -m =>Used and free memory (-m for MB) #host google.com =>Lookup DNS ip address for the name
#lspci -tv =>Show PCI devices #hostname –i =>Lookup local ip address
#lsusb -tv =>Show USB devices #wget file =>Download file
#dmidecode =>Show hardware info from the BIOS #netstat -tupl =>List active connections to / from system
#hdparm -i /dev/sda =>Show info about disk sda
#hdparm -tT /dev/sda =>Do a read speed test on disk sda COMPRESSION / ARCHIVES
#badblocks -s /dev/sda =>Test for unreadable blocks on disk sda
#tar cf home.tar home =>Create tar named home.tar containing home/
USERS #tar xf file.tar =>Extract the files from file.tar
#tar czf file.tar.gz files =>Create a tar with gzip compression
#id =>Show the active user id with login and group #gzip file =>Compress file and renames it to file.gz
#last =>Show last logins on the system
#who =>Show who is logged on the system INSTALL PACKAGE
#groupadd admin =>Add group "admin"
#useradd -c "Sam Tomshi" =>g admin -m sam #Create user "sam" #rpm -i pkgname.rpm =>Install rpm based package
#userdel sam =>Delete user sam #rpm -e pkgname =>Remove package
#adduser sam =>Add user "sam"
#usermod =>Modify user information INSTALL FROM SOURCE

FILE COMMANDS #./configure


#make
#ls –al =>Display all information about files/ directories #make install
#pwd =>Show the path of current directory
#mkdir directory-name =>Create a directory SEARCH
#rm file-name =>Delete file
#rm -r directory-nam =>Delete directory recursively #grep pattern files =>Search for pattern in files
#rm -f file-name =>Forcefully remove file #grep -r pattern dir =>Search recursively for pattern in dir
#rm -rf directory-name =>Forcefully remove directory recursively #locate file =>Find all instances of file
#cp file1 file2 =>Copy file1 to file2 #find /home/tom -name 'index*' =>Find files names that start with "index"
#cp -r dir1 dir2 =>Copy dir1 to dir2, create dir2 if it doesn’t exist #find /home -size +10000k =>Find files larger than 10000k in /home
#mv file1 file2 =>Rename source to dest / move source to directory
#ln –s /path/to/file-name link-name #Create symbolic link to file-name
#touch file =>Create or update file LOGIN (SSH AND TELNET)
#cat > file =>Place standard input into file
#more file =>Output contents of file
#head file =>Output first 10 lines of file #ssh user@host =>Connect to host as user
#tail file =>Output last 10 lines of file #ssh -p port user@host =>Connect to host using specific port
#tail -f file =>Output contents of file as it grows starting with the #telnet host =>Connect to the system using telnet port
last 10 lines
#gpg -c file =>Encrypt file FILE TRANSFER
#gpg file.gpg =>Decrypt file
#wc =>print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files scp
#xargs =>Execute command lines from standard input #scp file.txt server2:/tmp =>Secure copy file.txt to remote host /tmp folder
rsync
PROCESS RELATED #rsync -a /home/apps /backup/ =>Synchronize source to destination

#ps =>Display your currently active processes DISK USAGE


#ps aux | grep 'telnet' =>Find all process id related to telnet process
#pmap =>Memory map of process #df –h =>Show free space on mounted filesystems
#top =>Display all running processes #df -i =>Show free inodes on mounted filesystems
#killpid =>Kill process with mentioned pid id #fdisk -l =>Show disks partitions sizes and types
#killall proc =>Kill all processes named proc #du -ah =>Display disk usage in human readable form
#pkill process-name =>Send signal to a process with its name #du -sh =>Display total disk usage on the current directory
#bg =>Lists stopped or background jobs
#fg =>Brings the most recent job to foreground DIRECTORY TRAVERSE
#fg n =>Brings job n to the foreground
#cd .. =>To go up one level of the directory tree
#cd =>Go to $HOME directory
#cd /test =>Change to /test directory

MORE DETAILED : HTTP://LINOXIDE.COM/GUIDE/LINUX-COMMAND-SHELF.HTML

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