Linux Commands Cheat Sheet

/home/username

print working directory

concatenate files and print to standard output

cat example.md

# Hello World

This is an example text file.

concatenate files and print on the standard output

`CTRL+c`	Cancel current commant
`CTRL+d`	Log out. Same as when you type `exit` .
`CTRL+r`	Seach shell history
`CTRL+SHIFT+v`	Paste clipboard without formatting
`CTRL+u`	Cut character after cursor to the beginning of line (to the left)
`CTRL+k`	Cut character after cursor to the end of line (to the right)
`CTRL+a`	Go to beginning of line
`CTRL+e`	Go to end of line
`sudo!!`	Repeat last command with sudo

`-h, --human-readable`	print sizes in powers of 1024 (e.g., 1023M)
`-H, --si`	print sizes in powers of 1000 (e.g., 1.1G)

report file system disk space usage

cd /home/username/Downloads

change directory

-R, -r, --recursive

copy directories recursively

copy files and directories

Move a file	`mv ~/downlaods/file ~/documents`
Move folder to another folder	`mv ~/downlaods/folder ~/documents/`
Move containing files of a folder to another folder	`mv ~/downlaods/folder/ ~/documents/`

Move, rename files and directories
Be carefull with trailing slashes:

folder/

is different than

folder

`mkdir myfolder`	creates a folder
`mkdir -p folder1/folder2/folder3`	Creates folders if they do not exist

Make directories

`-l`	long list format
`-a, --all`	do not ignore entries starting with .
`-h, --human-readable`	will print sizes like 1K 234M 2G etc. when used with `-l`
`-1`	list one file per line
`-S`	sort by file size, largest first

list directory contents

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