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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ mount device-path mount-point # Mount a device ## Directory Traversal ```bash cd .. # Go up one level of the directory tree cd # Go to the $HOME directory cd /test # Change to the /test directory ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -157,17 +157,34 @@ rsync -a /home/apps /backup/ # Sync source to destination ## Process Related ```bash ps # Display your currently active process ps aux | grep 'telnet' # Find all process id's related to telnet process pmap # Memory map of process top # Display all running processes kill pid # Kill process with mentioned pid id killall proc # Kill all processes named proc pkill process-name # Send signal to a process with its name bg # Resumes suspended jobs without bringing them to the foreground fg # Brings the most recent job to the foreground fg n # Brings job n to the foreground ``` ## Disk Usage ```bash df -h # Show free space on mounted filesystems df -i # Show free inodes on mounted filesystems fdish -l # Show disk partition sizes and types du -ah # Display disk usage in human readable form du -sh # Display total disk usage on the current directory findmnt # Displays target mount point for all filesystems mount device-path mount-point # Mount a device ``` ## Directory Traversal ```bash cd .. # Go up one level of the directory tree cd # Go to the $HOME directory cd /test # Change to the /test directory ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -139,13 +139,19 @@ find /home -size +10000k # Find files larger than 10000k in /home ## Login (SSH and Telnet) ```bash ssh user@host # Connect to a host as a user ssh -p port user@host # Connect to a host using a specific port telnet host # Connect to the system using telnet port ``` ## File Transfer ```bash # scp scp file.txt server2:/tmp # Secure copy file.txt to remote host /tmp folder # rsync rsync -a /home/apps /backup/ # Sync source to destination ``` ## Process Related @@ -154,6 +160,12 @@ find /home -size +10000k # Find files larger than 10000k in /home ``` ## Disk Usage ```bash ``` ## Directory Traversal ```bash -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -128,10 +128,34 @@ xargs # Execute command lines from standard input ## Search ```bash grep pattern file # Search for patterns in a file grep -r pattern dir/ # Search recursively for a pattern in a dir locate file # Find all instances of a file find /home/tom -name 'index*' # Find file names that start with index find /home -size +10000k # Find files larger than 10000k in /home ``` ## Login (SSH and Telnet) ```bash ``` ## File Transfer ```bash ``` ## Process Related ```bash ``` ## Directory Traversal ```bash ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -108,22 +108,22 @@ pwd # Show the path of the current directory mkdir directory-name # Create a directory rm file-name # Delete a file rm -r directory-name # Delete a directory recursively rm -f file-name # Forcefully remove a file rm -rf directory-name # Forecfully remove the directory structure cp file1 file2 # Copy file1 to file2 cp -r dir1 dir2 # Copy dir1 to dir2, create dir2 if it doesn't exist mv file1 file2 # Rename source to dest / move the source to directory ln -s /path/to/file-name link-name # Create a symbolic link to file-name touch file # Create or update a file cat > file # Place standard input into a file more file # Output contents of a file head file # Output first 10 lines of a file tail file # Output last 10 lines of a file tail -f file # Output the contents of file as it grows starting with the last 10 lines gpg -c file # Encrypt file gpg file.gpg # Decrypt file wc # Print the number of bytes, words, and lines of a file xargs # Execute command lines from standard input ``` ## Search -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -103,17 +103,17 @@ make install ## File Commands ```bash ls -al # Display all information about files/directories pwd # Show the path of the current directory mkdir directory-name # Create a directory rm file-name # Delete a file rm -r directory-name # Delete a directory recursively rm -f file-name # Forcefully remove a file rm -rf directory-name # Forecfully remove the directory structure cp file1 file2 # Copy file1 to file2 cp -r dir1 dir2 # Copy dir1 to dir2, create dir2 if it doesn't exist mv file1 file2 # Rename source to dest / move the source to directory ln -s /path/to/file-name link-name # Create a symbolic link to file-name touch file cat > file more file -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -102,6 +102,30 @@ make install ## File Commands ```bash ls -al pwd mkdir directory-name rm file-name rm -r directory-name rm -f file-name rm -rf directory-name cp file1 file2 cp -r dir1 dir2 mv file1 file2 ln -s /path/to/file-name link-name touch file cat > file more file head file tail file tail -f file gpg -c file gpg file.gpg wc xargs ``` ## Search ## Login (SSH and Telnet) -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -74,4 +74,40 @@ useradd \ # Create user "sam" userdel sam # Delete user sam adduser sam # Add user "sam" usermod # Modify user information ``` ## Compression / Archives ```bash tar cf home.tar home # Create tar named home.tar containing home/ tar xf file.tar # Extract the files from file.tar tar czf file.tar.gz files # Create a tar with gzip compression gzip file # Compress file and renames it to file.gz ``` ## Install Package ```bash rpm -i pkgname.rpm # Install RPM based package rpm -e pkgname # Remove package ``` ## Install from Source ```bash ./configure make make install ``` ## File Commands ## Search ## Login (SSH and Telnet) ## File Transfer ## Process Related ## Directory Traversal -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -59,4 +59,19 @@ host google.com # Lookup DNS IP address for the name hostname -i # Lookup local IP address wget file # Download file netstat -tupl # List all active listening ports ``` ## Users ```bash id # Show the active user id with login and group last # Show last logins on the system who # Show who is logged on the system groupadd admin # Add group "admin" useradd \ # Create user "sam" -c "Sam Tomshi" \ -g admin -m sam userdel sam # Delete user sam adduser sam # Add user "sam" usermod # Modify user information ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -42,4 +42,21 @@ dmidecode # Show hardware info from the BIOS hdparm -i /dev/sda # Show info about disk sda hdparm -tT /dev/sda # Do a read speed test on disk sda badblocks -s /dev/sda # Test for unreadable blocks on disk sda ``` ## Network ```bash ip address add 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 # Set an IP Address ip addr show # Display all network interfaces and ip address ethtool eth0 # Linux tool to show ethernet status mii-tool eth0 # Linux tool to show ethernet status ping host # Send echo request to test connection whois domain # Get Whois information for domain dig domain # Get DNS information for domain dig -x host # Reverse lookup host host google.com # Lookup DNS IP address for the name hostname -i # Lookup local IP address wget file # Download file netstat -tupl # List all active listening ports ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -24,4 +24,22 @@ chmod 775 /data/test.c # Set rwx permission for owner, rx for group and world chown owner-user file # Change owner of the file chown owner-user:owner-group file-name # Change owner and group owner of the file chown owner-user:owner-group directory/ # Change owner and group owner of the directory ``` ## Hardware ```bash dmesg # Detected hardware and boot messages cat /proc/cpuinfo # CPU Model cat /proc/meminfo # Hardware memory cat /proc/interrupts # Lists the number of interrupts per CPU per I/O device lshw # Displays information on hardware configuration of the system lsblk # Displays block device related information in Linux free -m # Used and free memory (-m for MB) lspci -tv # Show PCI Devices lsusb -tv # Show USB Devices dmidecode # Show hardware info from the BIOS hdparm -i /dev/sda # Show info about disk sda hdparm -tT /dev/sda # Do a read speed test on disk sda badblocks -s /dev/sda # Test for unreadable blocks on disk sda ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -12,4 +12,16 @@ cal # Show this month calendar w # Display who is online whoami # Who you are logged in as finger user # Display information about user ``` ## File Permission Related ```bash chmod octal file-name # Change the permissions of the file to octal # Example chmod 777 /data/test.c # Set rwx permission for owner, group, world chmod 775 /data/test.c # Set rwx permission for owner, rx for group and world chown owner-user file # Change owner of the file chown owner-user:owner-group file-name # Change owner and group owner of the file chown owner-user:owner-group directory/ # Change owner and group owner of the directory ``` -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ ## System ```bash uname -a # Display Linux System Information uname -r # Display kernel release information uptime # Show how long the system has been running + load hostname # Show system host name hostname -i # Display the IP address of the host last reboot # Show system reboot history date # Show the current date and time cal # Show this month calendar w # Display who is online whoami # Who you are logged in as finger user # Display information about user ```