Cheat sheet act as a reference tool which provides cut and paste kind of commands to complete a specific task. I often recommend following set of best cheat sheets to students and IT professionals. It include Linux / UNIX command and shell scripting.
Unix Toolbox
This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.
=> Visit UNIX Toolbox
UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
A beginners guide to the Unix and Linux operating system. Eight simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX / Linux commands.
=> Visit UNIX Tutorial for Beginners
Linux Command and Learning Shell Tutorials
You have Linux installed and running. The GUI is working fine, but you are getting tired of changing your desktop themes. You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Don't worry, this site will show you what to do.
=> Visit Learning the shell
Learn UNIX in 10 minutes
This is something that I had given out to students (CAD user training) in years past. The purpose was to have on one page the basics commands for getting started using the UNIX shell (so that they didn't call me asking what to do the first time someone gave them a tape).
=> Visit Learning UNIX in 10 minutes
How To Look Like A UNIX Guru
This lecture takes you through the basic commands and then shows you how to combine them in simple patterns or idioms to provide sophisticated functionality like histogramming. This lecture assumes you know what a shell is and that you have some basic familiarity with UNIX.
=> Visit How To Look Like A UNIX Guru
Linux command line reference
Another very good Linux command line reference for common operations.
=> Visit Linux Command Line Reference
Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection
Links to good reference material on various topics.
=> Visit Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection (dead link removed)
Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands
This directory of Linux commands is from Linux in a Nutshell, 5th Edition. You can view total 687 commands to get a description and list of available options.
=> Visit directory of Linux commands
A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (ROSETTA STONE)
A simple and nice lookup table for Linux / UNIX / BSD commands.
=> Visit Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (ROSETTA STONE) (PDF version)
BigAdmin - System Administrator Resources and Community
Sun has BigAdmin portal with tons of information regarding UNIX, shell scripting and much more.
=> Visit BigAdmin System Administration Portal- Shell Commands (dead link removed)
Please feel free to suggest some of the UNIX cheat sheets / tutorials, I did not mentioned here in the comments.
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This blog post is 1 of 2 in the "Best Resources for Linux & Unix" series. Keep reading the rest of the series:- Top 10 Best Cheat Sheets and Tutorials for Linux / UNIX Commands
- 30 Best Sources For Linux / *BSD / Unix Documentation On the Web
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great info; most of the books you mentioned are useful.
Hey, some of your screenshots got mp3 player; otherwise a good collection of cheat sheets.
Very good info. But I think you should have also mentioned some of the most popular blogs, I think that is the best way to learn Unix/Linux.
i personally learn by break & fix (obviously on a dev) big learning curve, my first intro to linux was gentoo
Very very nice indeed, especially #1 howto vpn over ssh: brilliant!
tnx a lot!
thanks
Thanks for the collection..With this,It is inspiratory for a beginner to learn linux commands..
Very usuefull information.
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i want to say you thanks
More to add–
AWK
ACCESS LOG OPERATION — AWK
tail -10 access_log.2009-01-19 | awk '/go/ { print $13 }'it will grep the /go/ apps and cut the 13 th delem’s …. isnt its great !
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Rogers 87 100 95
Lambchop 66 89 76
Barney 12 36 27
You can perform calculations like this:
awk '{print "Avg for",$1,"is",($2+$3+$4)/3}' grades.dataAvg for Rogers is 94
Avg for Lambchop is 77
Avg for Barney is 25
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cat access_log.2009-01-19 | grep $1 | cut -f13 -d" "| awk '{ request += $1 } END { print request }'ll -R . | grep "jpg\\|mp4\\|3gp\\|gif" | grep "Apr\\|May\\|Jun" | awk '{print $5"\t" $6}'ps auxwww | grep daemon | grep -v grep | awk '{print $11}'cat /home/girish/script/ReportTool/user/letmeuse.2009-02-05 | cut -f1 | awk '{print substr($1,1,6)}'| sort -nrSUBSTR ka BAAP ::
cat /home/girish/script/ReportTool/user/letmeuse.2009-02-05 | cut -c1-6 | awk '{print $1,"=",$2,",",$3}'mitLOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ‘/tmp/tbl_change_2.sql’ INTO TABLE ‘tbl_operator_ip’ FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘\t’ LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’;
To Read Key And Value from the properties file……..
KEY VALUE :: tail -1 temp |awk -F= 'END { printf "keys=%s\nvalues=%s\n", k, v }{ k = k ? k s $1 : $1; v = v ? v s $2 : $2 }
' s="|"
keys=CUMULATIVE
values=100
Hai… thanks.Very good informations.
i like you linux cammond
Thanks alot for the facilities provided-:)
Very good collection for UNIX/LINUX. Thank you.
outstanding
It is help ful for every body.
Whoa! What an awesome collection!
thx bro :)
Can anyone tell me where I can take a shell scripting, perl, python course in Southern California.?
AWESOME :))))
good information
Hey I really like the site but the collection of cheat sheets is a broken link
It appears that two links are broken. I’ve removed the same.
Thanks for the heads up!
This is very good collection. Thanks for it.
Thanks it really worth…..
Reaaly good and helpful links.. i will refer all of you to go through these links its really worth to spend time in it..