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Linux Cheatsheet

This document is a comprehensive Linux cheat sheet that covers commands for users at basic, medium, and advanced levels. It includes essential commands for navigation, file management, permissions, disk usage, networking, process management, archiving, system monitoring, package management, and scripting. Each command is accompanied by examples to illustrate its usage.

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Linux Cheatsheet

This document is a comprehensive Linux cheat sheet that covers commands for users at basic, medium, and advanced levels. It includes essential commands for navigation, file management, permissions, disk usage, networking, process management, archiving, system monitoring, package management, and scripting. Each command is accompanied by examples to illustrate its usage.

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Linux Cheat Sheet for All Levels

1. Basic Level Commands


Navigation & File Management
• pwd – Print the current working directory.
• $ pwd
• /home/user
• ls – List files and directories.
• $ ls
• file1.txt file2.txt dir1 dir2
• cd <dir> – Change directory.
• $ cd dir1
• $ pwd
• /home/user/dir1
• mkdir <dir> – Create a directory.
• $ mkdir new_dir
• rm <file> – Remove files.
• $ rm file1.txt
Viewing Files
• cat <file> – View file content.
• $ cat file1.txt
• Hello, World!
• head <file> – View the first 10 lines of a file.
• $ head file1.txt
• Line 1
• Line 2
• tail <file> – View the last 10 lines of a file.
• $ tail file1.txt

2. Medium Level Commands


File Permissions and Ownership
• chmod – Change file permissions.
• $ chmod 755 script.sh
• $ ls -l script.sh
• -rwxr-xr-x 1 user user 1234 Dec 29 10:00 script.sh
• chown – Change file ownership.
• $ sudo chown root:root file1.txt
• $ ls -l file1.txt
• -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5678 Dec 29 10:15 file1.txt
Disk Usage
• df -h – Check disk space usage.
• $ df -h
• Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
• /dev/sda1 50G 25G 25G 50% /
• du -sh <dir> – Check directory size.
• $ du -sh /home/user
• 1.2G /home/user
Networking
• ping <host> – Test network connectivity.
• $ ping google.com
• PING google.com (172.217.12.206): 56 data bytes
• 64 bytes from 172.217.12.206: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54
time=12.3 ms
• netstat -tuln – View active ports and connections.
• $ netstat -tuln
• Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign
Address State
• tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN
Process Management
• ps aux – View running processes.
• $ ps aux
• USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT
START TIME COMMAND
• root 1 0.0 0.2 16936 4328 ? Ss 10:00
0:01 /sbin/init
• kill <PID> – Terminate a process.
• $ kill 1234

3. Advanced Level Commands


Archiving & Compression
• tar – Archive files.
• $ tar -cvf archive.tar dir1
• $ ls
• archive.tar
• gzip – Compress a file.
• $ gzip archive.tar
• $ ls
• archive.tar.gz
• gunzip – Decompress a file.
• $ gunzip archive.tar.gz
• $ ls
• archive.tar
System Monitoring
• top – Real-time system monitoring.
• $ top
• Tasks: 100 total, 2 running, 98 sleeping, 0
stopped, 0 zombie
• dmesg – Kernel message log.
• $ dmesg | tail
• [ 1000.123456] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device
number 4
• uptime – Check system uptime.
• $ uptime
• 10:30:05 up 2 days, 4:22, 2 users, load average:
0.15, 0.20, 0.25
Package Management
For Debian/Ubuntu:
• apt-get install <package> – Install a package.
• $ sudo apt-get install vim
• apt-get update && apt-get upgrade – Update and
upgrade packages.
• $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
For RHEL/CentOS:
• yum install <package> – Install a package.
• $ sudo yum install vim
Automation with Scripting
• Creating a Shell Script
• $ nano script.sh
Content of script.sh:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello, World!"
Make executable and run:
$ chmod +x script.sh
$ ./script.sh
Hello, World!

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