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.
This is easy to use Linux command line index. Linux commands divided into categories such as:
=> System information
=> Shutdown
=> Files and Directory
=> File search
=> Mounting a Filesystem
=> Disk Space
=> Users and Groups and others
Linux Commands Line list
Almost all new Linux wanna be guru (read as users who want to switch to Linux) asks a question:
I want to switch to Linux completely from Windows XP SP2. Which Linux version will be best – Redhat, SuSE, or other? I use my PC for:
Browsing Internet
Watching DVD / MP3
Writing CD/DVD
I’m also willing to spend a [...]
Someone might attack on your system. You can drop attacker IP using IPtables. However, you can use route command to null route unwanted traffic. A null route (also called as blackhole route) is a network route or kernel routing table entry that goes nowhere. Matching packets are dropped (ignored) rather than forwarded, acting [...]
Some time it is necessary to print a Linux man or info page. To print a ls command man page on command line type following command:
$ man ls | col -b | lpr -P hp1_floor2
Where,
col -b : To format man page output, it will not show any special character such as backspaces
lpr -P hp1_floor2 [...]
It is a common practice to manage UNIX/Linux/BSD server remotely over ssh session. As you manage servers, you need to download the software or other files for installation or even download latest ISO of Linux distribution (or even MP3s). These days we have lots of GUI downloaders for X window such as:
d4x: http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo
kget: KDE download [...]