*nix
Mainly linux, some unix-like.
Guides
- tuXfiles - Linux help
- GNU/Linux Practice Note
- Linux Commands - A practical reference
- Linux Resources
- Settling into Unix
- Relational shell programming
- The Art of Unix Programming Eric Steven Raymond
- Unix as IDE
Dotfiles
System
Boot
File structure
- Linux Directory Structure (File System Structure) Explained with Examples
- Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split [2]
ln -s {target-filename} {symbolic-filename}
Terminals
Basics
- Wikipedia:Pseudo terminal, Wikipedia:Virtual console (computer user-interface), Wikipedia:Terminal emulator, Wikipedia:Control character, Wikipedia:Escape sequence, Wikipedia:Escape character, Wikipedia:C0 and C1 control codes, Wikipedia:Terminfo
- ASCII Characters for MPE Users (control char info)
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky
- http://codepoints.net/
Urxvt
tabbed is good, plus tmux.
Screen
config goes in ~/.screenrc
escape ^Ww change escape key to w
Tmux
- tmux - terminal multiplexer
config goes in ~/.tmux.conf
- http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/1/tmux/
- http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-terminal-multiplexer-part-2/
- http://www.linuxized.com/2010/05/switching-from-gnu-screen-to-tmux/comment-page-1/#comment-2148
tmux lsc list clients tmux detach-client -t /dev/pts/26 remove other clients from session (if screensize is fucked)
Misc
- ArchWiki: Improve Boot Performance#TTY terminal management
- StackOverflow: Can terminals detect <Shift-Enter> or <Control-Enter>?
- Home and End keys not working
- That 256 Color Thing, P.C. Shyamshankar
- Super User: TTY with 256 colors?
- The Text Pistols
- Wikipedia:Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne/ - HTML/JS/Python terminal
Shell
Bash
- Bash Reference Manual
- Builtin Commands
- Shell variables: Bourne, Bash
- Conditional Expressions
- Bash Guide for Beginners
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper
- .bashrc, etc
- Getting Started with BASH
- The Command Line Crash Course (for cli newbs)
- Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts
- http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/p/index-of-tips-and-tricks.html Unix Command-Line Kung Fu] Tip index
- http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/Practices
- http://www.aboutlinux.info/2005/10/10-seconds-guide-to-bash-shell.html
man: echo
Basics
- IBM - Linux tip: Bash parameters and parameter expansions
- Debugging a script Bash Hackers Wiki
Options
- http://rsalveti.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/bash-parsing-arguments-with-getopts/
- http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/howto/getopts_tutorial
- shFlags - getop wrapper for long flags with fallback for non gnu-getopt
More
Zsh
- Github: P.C. Shyamshankar's Zsh configs
- https://gist.github.com/914831
- https://github.com/olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt or https://github.com/jcorbin/zsh-git
- http://quasimal.com/posts/2012-05-21-funsh.html - functional programming in zsh
lshell
Other
Commands
- commandlinefu.com [3]
- LINFO: Index of Linux Commands
- http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2011/08/awesome-but-often-unknown-linux-commands-and-tools/
- http://www.linuxcommand.org/superman_pages.php
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_Unix/Commands
- World's best introduction to sed [4]
- awk
- ack - ack is a perl tool like grep for programmers
- https://github.com/rupa/z / https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump - verrry handy for moving about
- nice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
- cut - remove sections from each line of files
- shelr - console screencasting tool
System
- lsof - "lists open files" (lots, given "everything" is a file)
iostat, vmstat, free
Mount
mount -o remount / remount partition after /etc/fstab change
Users
- /etc/passwd - local user information
- account:password:UID:GID:GECOS:directory:shell
- /etc/shadow - restricted access encrypted password file
useradd username create user with defaults (no password) useradd -D show defaults that will be used useradd -m -g [initial_group] -G [additional_groups] -s [login_shell] [username] -m - add home dir -d - non-default home dir path -c comment -e 2006-06-30 - expires useradd -m -g users -G audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power,scanner -s /bin/bash username
adduser interactive tool
userdel username remove user userdel -r username remove user plus their home folder, mail spool
cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f 1,3,6 | grep "[5-9][0-9][0-9]" List users on a system [6]
Groups
groupadd [group] add group gpasswd -a [user] [group] add user to group gpasswd -d [user] [group] delete user from group
User must relogin for new group to take effect.
Permissions
ACLs
Partition must have acl set in /etc/fstab (and be remounted after).
setfacl -m "u:username:permissions" setfacl -m "u:uid:permissions" add permissions for user setfacl -m "g:groupname:permissions" setfacl -m "g:gid:permissions" add permissions for group setfacl -m "u:user:rwx" file add read, write, execure perms for user for file setfacl -Rm "u:user:rw" /dir add recursive read, write perms for user for dir setfacl -Rdm "u:user:rw" /dir add recursive read, write perms for user for dir and make them default for future changes
Finding files
find /usr/share -name README find ~/Journalism -name '*.txt' find ~/Programming -path '*/src/*.c' find ~/Images/Screenshots -size +500k -iname '*.jpg' find ~/Journalism -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} ; find ~/Journalism -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 cat (faster than above) find / -group [group] find / -user [user]
- sgrep - search a file for a structured pattern
Moving files
scp -P 2264 foobar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory scp -rP 2264 folder your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory
Viewing files
less is better than more
cat filename output file to screen cat -n filename output file to screen w/ line numbers cat filename1 filename2 output two files (concatinate) cat filename1 > filename2 overwrite filename2 with filename1 cat filename1 >> filename2 append filename1 to filename2 cat filename{1,2} > filename2 add filename1 and filename2 together into filename3
head filename top 10 lines of file head -23 filename top 23 lines of file tail filename bottom 10 lines of file tail -23 filename bottom 23 lines of file
sed -n 20,30p filename print lines 20..30 of file [7]
Media
Package management
Apt
dpkg --get-selections > installed-software create list of installed software dpkg --set-selections < installed-software dselect reinstall from list
Pacman
pacman -Syu upgrade system pacman -Qo [file] check what package owns a file pacman -Qqtd check whether there are any orphaned packages pacman -Rsn packagename remove orphaned packages
- cacheclean - Cleans up pacman packages. Users selects how many old versions to keep.
cacheclean {-p} {-v} <# of copies to keep> # of copies to keep - (required) how many generations of each package. -p - (optional) preview what would be deleted. -v - (optional) show deleted packages.
Compression
# Extract Files extract() { if [ -f $1 ] ; then case $1 in *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf $1 ;; *.tar.gz) tar xvzf $1 ;; *.tar.xz) tar xvJf $1 ;; *.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;; *.rar) unrar x $1 ;; *.gz) gunzip $1 ;; *.tar) tar xvf $1 ;; *.tbz2) tar xvjf $1 ;; *.tgz) tar xvzf $1 ;; *.zip) unzip $1 ;; *.Z) uncompress $1 ;; *.7z) 7z x $1 ;; *.xz) unxz $1 ;; *.exe) cabextract $1 ;; *) echo "\`$1': unrecognized file compression" ;; esac else echo "\`$1' is not a valid file" fi }
z7 does autodetection?
Disk usage
du -sh size of a folder du -S size of files in a folder du -aB1m|awk '$1 >= 100' everything over 100Mb cd / | sudo du -khs * show root folder size sudo du -a --max-depth=1 /usr/lib | sort -n -r | head -n 20 size of program folders /usr/lib du -sk ./* | sort -nr | awk 'BEGIN{ pref[1]="K"; pref[2]="M"; pref[3]="G";} { | total = total + $1; x = $1; y = 1; while( x > 1024 ) { x = (x + 1023)/1024; y++; } | printf("%g%s\t%s\n",int(x*10)/10,pref[y],$2); } END { y = 1; while( total > 1024 ) | { total = (total + 1023)/1024; y++; } printf("Total: %g%s\n",int(total*10)/10,pref[y]); }' foooked?
- ncdu - ncurses disk usage
ncdu / --exclude /home --exclude /media --exclude /run/media check everything apart from home and external drives ncdu / --exclude /home --exclude /media --exclude /run/media check everything apart from external drives
- Baobab - gnome app
todo; source aliases.zsh
Time
Convert unixtime into date;
date -d @1337000000
- Linux, Clocks, and Time
- tzconfig / dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
ntpdate pool.ntp.org && hwclock --systohc && hwclock --adjust Synchronize both your system clock and hardware clock and calculate/adjust time drift. Do not run this command if you already have ntpd running! [9]
Logs
GUI
- http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/image-software-linux-gimp,2801-3.html
- http://linuxcrunch.com/content/gwenview-best-image-viewer
X
Window Managers
Openbox
Qt
qtconfig qt4
Distros
- Android - Distros
Arch
Debian
Ubuntu
Other software
- http://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/
- http://blog.chavezgu.com/2012/03/07/the-command-line-challenge/
- shortcutworld.com - keyboard shortcuts wiki
- https://www.shortcutfoo.com/
CUPS
Printing system.
Regex
Security
- http://www.truecrypt.org/ - hard drive space
- http://www.keepassx.org/ - passwords
- http://safeharbor.export.gov/list.aspx - UK DPA safe harbours
Networking
- sudo /etc/init.d/<service> restart - ubuntu, restart a service
- sudo /etc/rc.d/<service> stop | start | restart - arch, service things
- sudo sh -c "echo 'something' >> /etc/privilegedfile"
- chown -R user:group . - change all and subitems [10]
- Linux DNS Lookup Command - host & dig
- route -n - display the host's networks and gateway
- /etc/hosts
- /etc/network/interfaces - ubuntu network interface settings
- /etc/resolv.conf - dns settings
- /etc/host.conf - dns resolve order
- /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf - overrides ubuntu server dns settings. change prepend option.
- /etc/dnsmasq.conf - dnsmasq settings
- dnsmasq configuration
- Local DNS cache in Linux using dnsmasq
- View The Daily Show, etc. in the UK, etc. Mofity HTTP headers; X-Forwarded-For "12.13.14.15" [12]
Cisco
Media
To check;