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- Inputoutput - Terminals, etc.
- Backup - Scripts and apps
- Shell - Bash, Zsh, etc.
- Vim - Text editor, etc.
- Git - Distributed version control
- Irssi - IRC
- Weechat - IRC
- Bitlbee - IM
- Android - Distros
Guides
- tuXfiles - Linux help
- GNU/Linux Practice Note
- Linux Commands - A practical reference
- Linux Resources
- Settling into Unix
- Relational shell programming
- commandlinefu.com
- shortcutworld.com - keyboard shortcuts wiki - chrome
- The Art of Unix Programming Eric Steven Raymond
- Unix as IDE
- Linux Directory Structure (File System Structure) Explained with Examples
- Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split [2]
Tools and help
- Linux, Clocks, and Time
- tzconfig / dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Command line
- lsof
- World's best introduction to sed [4]
- Awk
- ack - ack is a perl tool like grep for programmers
- http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2011/08/awesome-but-often-unknown-linux-commands-and-tools/
- Package manager Rosetta
- apt-fast
- regex cheatsheet
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)
Moving files
scp -P 2264 foobar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory [5]
Package management
Pacman
- 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.
Disk usage
du -sh size of a folder du -S size of files in a folder
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]); }'
todo; source aliases.zsh
Time
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! [6]
Users
cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f 1,3,6 | grep "[5-9][0-9][0-9]" List users on a system [7]
GUI
- http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/image-software-linux-gimp,2801-3.html
- http://linuxcrunch.com/content/gwenview-best-image-viewer
Other software
- http://kmandla.wordpress.com/software/
- http://blog.chavezgu.com/2012/03/07/the-command-line-challenge/
Arch
Debian
CUPS
X
Window Managers
Openbox
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 [8]
- 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" [10]
Cisco
Media
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