UNIX commands

09 Jan 2013 Actual, IT by Matt

A short list of my most used shell commands:

Manual
man man cd man ls man man echo

Fileing
ls cd ls a* ls -a ls -al ls -hlog cp mv ln ln -s touch

Ownership & permissions
ls -l chown sudo chown chmod chmod 777 chmod 755

Reading & Editing files
cat head head -n 100 tail tail -n 100 tail -f wc wc -l nano

Redirection
echo hello > test echo hello >> test

File manipulation
wc -l ls -c1 | wc -l sort cut find grep grep -i sed s/old/new/g awk paste comm

System
whoami top ps ps -u du du -h df uptime su sudo crontab

Networking
hostname dig ping ssh scp sftp nohup

Other
xargs find . -name "string*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f find . -name "string*" -print0 | xargs -0 -J % mv % newdir make watch fail

Background
& jobs -l